Our friends at Neowin.net have posted some screenshots they’ve obtained of two works-in-progress Windows Live products, Messenger and Writer. We won’t join in the DMCA games here, but the screenshots appear to be real, and show Messenger with tabs (finally), …
Windows Live Movie Maker: YouTube publishing issue now resolved
Did you try to upload your video to YouTube through Windows Live Movie Maker only to see it fail? It wasn’t just you! Turns out it was a change made on YouTube.com that caused this (authentication) failure.
This issue was …
Mix10 registration opens Spring conference season: who will have the Wave 4 news?
Well really we expect to hear at least SOMETHING (please?) about Windows Live and Wave 4 at CES in January (only a few weeks away!), but the real season of Wave 4 seems to be set to begin in “the …
MSN Continues push for local: 2 new video partnerships
Today on the MSN blog, MSN Local Edition Director Cyrus Krohn announced two new partnerships to bring more local video to US cities on the new look MSN.com. Slated to start in January, the partnerships, with Hearst Television and NBC …
Microsoft combines Azure and Windows Server orgs: “Server and Cloud Division”
Microsoft announced today that Windows Azure and Windows Server will together become a new division in the Server and Tools Business: the Server and Cloud Division. If it wasn’t clear before, Microsoft is heavily invested in “the cloud”, and this …
Fun with Bing Maps: Tweeting on the Road, Bing in Japan, more
Looks like Google took the latest round in what’s becoming an entertaining game of one-upsmanship, announcing Google Goggles and real time results, but we’ve been spending too much time playing with Bing Maps to notice. While we haven’t found any …
Bing goes down (and people notice!)
Last night at about 6:30 pm (Tom Warren of Neowin comments the actual downtime was between 6:24 and 7:10), after “a configuration change during some internal testing”, Bing was either unavailable or returned incomplete results. According to the Bing Blog…
The Bing Bar
Also announced yesterday is the Bing Bar. Another search/tool bar? Yes and no, it replaces the MSN Toolbar Beta. If you go to the MSN toolbar URL you get the following page: 
I’ve set it to en-ca here, …
We’re gathering up Bing info from wherever we can
Kara Swisher is liveblogging the Bing news event, but apparently she’s off in search of donuts, no wait, here’s something:
…He kicks off the show with some stats and a main point: Microsoft’s search share has, as his first slide
New on the Bing home page: History, mouse hover links
One thing we’ve just noticed with the Bing home page is the addition of History. History is not a new feature, but having it on the home page is. And when you hover over any of the “explorer bar” features …
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