Windows Home Server “Vail”: a Windows Live connection?

After Mary Jo Foley noted that copies of a new version of Windows Home Server, code named “Vail” were floating out there on the interwebs, there was quite a little flurry of activity as enthusiasts jumped at the chance to …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 28th, 2010 at 7:52 pm

Windows Live ID to get new sign-in features in Wave 4

As mentioned in our interview with Ryan Gavin and Walter Harp last week, the Windows Live ID team has “some new features coming” that will enhance your protection. We were fortunate enough to get a glimpse of what Windows Live …

By damaster in News
January 27th, 2010 at 8:36 am

What’s a Zune phone?

Long Zheng was quick to dig around in last night’s updated Zune software, and quick to find reference to a %phone% (good work, btw!), and this just a day after Microsoft denied publically to Mary Jo Foley that the Zune …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
January 26th, 2010 at 7:47 pm

My.live.com to be discontinued on March 15th

We’ve had numerous questions posed to us over the last few months about the status and future of My.live.com, the personal home page that started out as an Atlas framework (now ASP.net Ajax) project managed by Sanaz Ahari and the …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
January 26th, 2010 at 4:27 am

Para Fuera, the life of Dr. Richard Bing

Last October, Bing Director Stefan Weitz wrote about an encounter with a Dr. Richard Bing, who had contacted Mich Mathews, SVP of Marketing, since they had “used his name for our new search engine”.  Weitz and Sean Carver went …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
January 26th, 2010 at 3:49 am

Bing/Microsoft Translation: Haitian Creole support

Haitian Creole has just been added to the list of available translations for the Bing Translator and other Microsoft Translator powered services (including the Messenger Translation Bot):

In the current crisis in Haiti there are a number of initiatives

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By Sunshine in Bing
January 25th, 2010 at 11:20 am

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 to get Conversation view, Flagged messages, and more!

Last time we talked about Windows Live Mail to support Conversation view in Wave 4, as well as hints indicating that it will support Gmail’s “stars” functionality. Wouldn’t it be nice if Microsoft’s own webmail service – Hotmail, supported …

By damaster in News
January 25th, 2010 at 7:53 am

Haiti Earthquake Map App compares before and after

Haiti Earthquake Map AppWe already told you that Bing maps published new imagery for Haiti after the earthquake. But what about the imagery from before?

Well, they haven’t been put to waste, they got put in a new map app!

Now …

By Sunshine in Bing
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 am

Cooking with Bing

Need to bake a cake? Wondering how to prepare steak? Bing now provides detailed recipe results.

The results are pulled from a number of popular recipe websites (delish.com, MyRecipes.com, epicurious.com, etc.) and you can sift through them by cuisine, course, …

By Sunshine in Bing
January 21st, 2010 at 10:31 pm

More information about Windows Live Wave 4’s dynamic header

Following on from last week’s post about Windows Live Wave 4’s new header, Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net was able to get hold of another pair of screenshots on the new web services header. His screenshots seem to confirm what we …

By damaster in News
January 21st, 2010 at 5:16 am
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