Windows Live Essentials & Services Book

For everyone who wants to get the most out of Windows Live: The Windows Live Essentials and Services Book.

imageThis book by MVP Brad Jones and Marcus Schmidt is a full-color, step-by-step guide for using Microsoft’s new Windows Live

By Sunshine in Featured News
November 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Bing Maps China updated

Bing Maps China has updated their site with tons of new data and some new features:

  • Yellow Pages – Over 8 million yellow page listings are now searching from Bing Maps China.
  • Business Photos – Hundreds of thousands of business
By Sunshine in Bing
November 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Bing begins showing “latest posts”

One sure fire way to get a new feature noticed is to attach it to TechCrunch, and indeed TC noticed a new Bing feature yesterday that appears on Bing search results for “TechCrunch”:

binglatesttechcrunch 

The “Latest posts” feature only appears …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 19th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

PDC 2009: Day 2 announcements

Now the liveblogging is over, let’s take a look at what was announced today.

Silverlight

image A whole lot was said about Microsoft Silverlight, going through some features of Silverlight 3 but most of all of Silverlight 4! Yes, today …

By Sunshine in News
November 18th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

Live blog day 2

Here we go!  Live blog day 2!…

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 18th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

PDC Day One, working the halls

Thanks to Sunshine for recapping the PDC day one keynotes, our second day of keynotes, and liveblogging, is set to begin in a few hours.  At this PDC, to be sure, there’s not a lot of Windows Live news, or …

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 18th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2?

The transcript of yesterdays keynote, with Ray Ozzie & Bob Muglia, has been posted online. Let’s take a look at some interesting tidbits:

Today, we’re going to focus primarily on the back-end: servers, tools and cloud computing.

So what …

By Sunshine in News
November 18th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

New from Live Labs: Pivot

pivotlogo I got called a namedropper on Twitter today for my earlier Day 1 post, but really we think of our readers as being the reason we’re here, and it’s because of you that we’re able to get to do this …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
November 18th, 2009 at 5:13 am

PDC Liveblog Day One

We’re here in sunny Los Angeles ( 76 degrees and sunny 🙂  ) again, liveblogging the PDC keynotes today and tomorrow.  You can watch the keynote live at www.microsoftpdc.com, and follow along with our motley crew of bloggers and …

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 17th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

Windows Marketplace now supports Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1

It hasn’t even been a week since we noticed in a post that Windows Marketplace would support Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 later this month! Well, later this month has come. Starting today almost all people with phones running …

By Sunshine in News
November 16th, 2009 at 10:18 pm