Hard to believe that we’re wrapping up our 4th year of LiveSide.net (January 3rd, 2010 will mark the beginning of year 5), but just wanted to wish everyone the happiest of holidays, let you know we’re still here and plan …
Happy Holidays from LiveSide.net: Our Holiday Letter
Read and post to Microsoft Forums from Windows Live Mail with NNTP Bridge
Even in our MSN and Windows Live MVP days, we were never big forums posters, but we remember following a long simmering feud between the (mainly) MVPs and the Microsoft forums about NNTP access to the forums. Basically, Microsoft wanted …
US Search share: Nielsen shows Bing growth, too
The Nielsen Company just released their November US Search share numbers, with Bing continuing a slow climb up the charts. Nielsen last month changed their methodology, so comparisons before last month aren’t relevant, but here are the numbers for the …
Inside Windows Live: new on The Windows Blog
Some good news tonight from Windows Live Corporate Vice President Chris Jones, who in an initial blog post announced the creation of “Inside Windows Live: The engineering behind Hotmail, Messenger, and Windows Live”. In the post, Jones explains …
Microsoft Security Essentials available in 17 additional markets
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Today Microsoft is making Microsoft Security Essentials available in 17 additional markets: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates.
This brings the total number …
The Climate Is Changing…Now What?
Surely you know about the United Nations 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15), which is taking place right now. But did you know that Microsoft has sent a delegation of issue and technology experts to support COP15?
That group is …
Bing gains share, releases iPhone app, talks privacy
Some good Bing news today, on three fronts. First, some new numbers from comScore (no press release yet, so far just numbers shared from Silicon Alley Insider) show continued incremental growth for Bing (and Google), and continued decline from …
Seasonal Synth Challenge: “Holiday Lights”
Following in the footsteps of Bing’s Home Sweet Homepage photo contest, Photosynth now also has a contest..ehmm scuse me, challenge: "Holiday Lights". It was announced on the team’s blog as follows:
…During the week of December 21st to
A new home for our Pivot (and more codes!)
Just a little housekeeping on our ongoing Live Labs Pivot project, the MS Org Pivot, which we wrote about earlier. We originally posted our Pivot attempt on an unused personal domain, but we’ve moved it now to a new …
The Bing Maps Platform releases APIs for Streetside, Enhanced Bird’s Eye
Now that’s moving fast. Microsoft just unveiled Streetside a couple of weeks ago and already developers can start to use images from Streetside and enhanced bird’s eye.
Chris Pendleton has a blog post up detailing how to use the new …
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