CNN Money senior writer Jon Fortt talked to Steve Ballmer at CES about Bing, Windows Phone, and more, a quick but interesting take. Ballmer promises a “whole new set of innovations” for Windows Phones, and comments that the mobile market …
Windows Live Services on Connected TVs
A source at Microsoft revealed to tweakers.net (at CES) that Microsoft is negotiating with TV manufacturers about delivering Windows Live Services with internet enabled televisions (Connected TVs).
It’s unclear at this time which services this will be, probably Windows Live …
Windows Mobile 7: MWC in Barcelona to get a first peek?
Microsoft is busy dropping hints that it is finally ready to start talking about Windows Mobile 7, the long awaited and expectation-laden new Windows Phone operating system. In his keynote, Steve Ballmer mentioned that there would be more about Windows …
Hosting videos using Windows Azure and Silverlight: step by step (we need this!)
As you may have noticed, we’ve been working hard on getting LiveSide.net ready for the year to come, including moving to a new web host, working on the themes, adding Disqus comments, and hopefully generally cleaning up our act. Last …
Congratulations to Bing: Best New Startup or Product of 2009: Crunchies
While we can’t say we took the time to watch this year’s “Crunchies”, the TechCrunch awards given out for the past 3 years now, we’re happy to report that Bing took away the honors for Best New Startup or Product …
Microsoft starts official company blog
While we noticed a redesigned and renamed PressPass site before, it turns out that’s not all that’s new. Also new is The Microsoft Blog. Yep, that’s right, they started an official company blog to compliment the Microsoft News …
A short history of Hotmail
The Inside Windows Live Blog keeps on rolling. After a peek behind the scenes at Hotmail, a short history of Hotmail got posted. A very interesting read. For example did you know that Hotmail was born on July 4, …
Microsoft holds back at CES: announces HP partnership
The CES keynote is just about to get underway, but luckily even though CES is late with the keynote Microsoft is early with the press release. Unless Steve Ballmer pulls a fast one, about the only real news coming …
Bing Maps Imagery Release, December 2009
More than 274,000 square kilometers of imagery got added to Bing Maps in December: 33,520 sq. km of Bird’s Eye photos and 240,739 sq. km of Aerial. 
In the above screenshot, taken from the Bing Maps World Tour Application, …
New Office 2010 pricing announced: Office Web Apps included
Microsoft today announced its pricing for Office 2010, and a couple of new products may have some significant impact on Windows Live uptake with the addition of Office Web apps available directly from within Office. We’ve known that Office Web …
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