In a “private news event” (ooh, MS is taking this Murdoch stuff seriously 😉 ), today at 10:00 am in San Francisco, Bing executives Satya Nadella, Harry Shum, Erik Jorgensen, and Brian MacDonald and others are set to “showcase and …
Bing Maps: Silverlight, Enhanced Bird’s Eye, Streetside, Photosynth….WOW!
Today is a big day for Bing Maps. There’s lots of news coming out of this “private news event”, but from the looks of it the new Bing Maps Beta is the biggest of all.
Starting today …
Home Sweet Homepage photo contest
Want your photo on Bing just like Jeremy? Now is your chance! Bing’s second photo contest just kicked off on Facebook.
This time the team wants you to take pictures of your hometown: “hometown pride.” Your chance to …
Photosynth: New release and new UI
Photosynth got a new release. The download of imagery when you zoom has been improved and there’s a new UI: 
1. The Controls – All controls are still there, in the middle we find a navigation disk.
2. View Control…
Creating the Microsoft Executive Pivot (we play, and you can too)
We’ve been giving away Live Labs Pivot codes (and yes, we have more to share later on in this post), but after returning from PDC and learning a bit about the new “experiment” from Live Labs, we’ve finally been able …
The Climate Mystery – A Bing Maps Game for Thanksgiving
Feel like doing something else on Thanksgiving than playing Pictionary, Risk or Trivial Pursuit? Chris Pendleton suggests the following:
…
Instead of breaking out the Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit or Risk you can logon to The Climate Mystery game featuring Bing
Eye On Earth (Europe)
Wondering about the water quality, maybe not so important now unless you like a very very cold swim but well.., or the air quality in your country/neighbourhood (Europe)? Check out the European Environment Agency’s Eye On Earth portal. …
Windows Live at PDC: Live Framework Calendar sync coming?
Last Thursday we attended the only Windows Live PDC session, entitled “The Audience API: Live Framework Present and Future”, presented by Windows Live Senior Program Manager Todd Manion. In the session, which revisited the Messenger Web Toolkit and …
Microsoft, Bing, and Murdoch: The Annoyance Factor
A story in Sunday’s Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have been holding preliminary talks to pull News Corp. content from Google, and for Bing to then pay a premium for that content. There’s quite …
A Bing boycott? Why not boycott China?
Yesterday in a blog post, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called for a boycott of Bing, because of the way it handles Chinese characters searches outside of China when searching for politically sensitive (to China) material.
Today in …
Thanks for 9 great years!
LiveSide.net has been retired. For the latest in Microsoft centric news and information, visit OnMSFT.com
The latest from OnMSFT.com
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III PC system requirements, preload times revealed October 31, 2023
- PowerToys 0.75 released; Environment Variables editor is here October 31, 2023
- Former Halo developer Bungie announces layoffs in wake of game delays October 31, 2023
- Siemens and Microsoft partner to bring GenAI to industries worldwide October 31, 2023
- 43 Microsoft Edge keyboard shortcuts to remember for stylish and speedy web surfing October 31, 2023
- Here is what’s coming to (and leaving) Xbox Game Pass soon October 31, 2023
- How to use accessibility features in Microsoft 365 like Narrator, Read aloud and Voice Search easily October 30, 2023
- Only 1% of Netflix subscribers are playing games on the service October 30, 2023
- Microsoft to start blocking unauthorized Xbox controllers and accessories October 30, 2023
- ONPOD EP.134: WINDOWS ON ARM GETS HELP, BYE METAVERSE, FY24Q1 EARNINGS, NEW START BUTTON, AND MORE October 29, 2023