Windows Live Mail Wave 4 to support Gmail’s labels, stars and archiving?

Twitter had been our friend lately to discover new gems about what’s coming in Windows Live Wave 4. We found a tweet by Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief from Engadget.com, who asked the following question:

Joshua Topolsky: How is it possible that no one has made a mail client that keeps the functionality of Gmail's labels, archiving, and stars? How hard is it?

Two hours later, a bit to our …

By damaster in News
January 17th, 2010 at 1:43 pm

An early peek at Windows Mobile 7: “built from scratch”

WMPowerUser has been following a very interesting Twitter conversation with Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review.com, who has apparently scored an early look at an as-yet unreleased phone running an early build of Windows Mobile 7, if you can believe him …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
January 17th, 2010 at 5:41 am

A Bing URL shortener?

LiveSide reader Gilly2468 noticed an interesting tidbit in a Bing tweet from Fareologist this week, a Binged.IT url shortener:

bingurl 

Gilly has more on his (very nice looking, btw!) My Microsoft Life blog.  URL shorteners are becoming quite popular …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
January 15th, 2010 at 7:47 pm

Are the Bing numbers telling the story?

images_charts-down-up The latest US search market share numbers from comScore, Hitwise, and Nielsen are out, and depending on who you believe, Bing is either up slightly, or down slightly, Yahoo! continues a downward trend, and Google just keeps on …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
January 15th, 2010 at 7:16 pm

Notice: Get content off Silverlight Streaming before January 31st

MSSilverlightLogoIf you still have content on Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta, now is the time to get it off. You can migrate your content to Azure* now and host it there, just like we do with our

By Sunshine in News
January 15th, 2010 at 10:11 am

The China Google rift: is it good for Bing?

googlebaibai Yesterday Google dropped quite a bombshell when it announced that, because of a series of attacks on Google and other companies by hackers trying to get access to Chinese human rights activists GMail accounts, it would reconsider its “approach to …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
January 13th, 2010 at 5:57 pm

New on Bing: enhanced Health Instant Answers and more

A new post on the Bing search blog highlights some nice new features in Instant Answers for health related queries, including content from partners and new hard-to-discover search results.  Here’s a Bing search on h1n1:

healthresults 

The new Instant …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
January 12th, 2010 at 9:24 pm

Windows Live for Mobile Wave 4: Calendar and Groups coming soon?

Ever since Wave 3, people have been wondering why Windows Live Calendar never had a mobile counterpart, considering calendars are one of the most used applications on every mobile devices. Windows Live Calendar for Mobile only supported SMS-based services in

By damaster in Featured News
January 11th, 2010 at 2:44 pm

New version of Windows Live for Windows Phone

A new version of Windows Live for Windows Phone has been released:

New Year, New Version . . .

We have  released a new version of Windows Live for Windows Phone, working in Standard or Professional phones.

Now  you

By Sunshine in News
January 11th, 2010 at 12:19 pm

LiveSide: our head in the (Azure) clouds

Well so far so good in our “hosting video on Azure” experiment.  We followed David Sayed’s tutorial and with only a few bumps along the way we now have a couple of videos in the cloud.  Our interview videos are …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 11th, 2010 at 4:03 am