Share Your Search With Bing And Ping

Searching is one thing, but why do you search? Who do you search for? Is it for you, for a friend, maybe it’s even for a group of friends. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could share the search result

By Sunshine in Bing
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm

WorldWide Telescope Aphelion Release – Web Version Now Beta

New releases of both the Windows and web Client are now available with many new features and bug fixes. The Windows Client has photo-realistic rendering of the Earth and Sun, as well as shadows of Jupiter’s moons. The new Cosmos …

By Sunshine in News
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:18 pm

WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview

In this second part of our interview with Mike Torres, a PM for Windows Live Movie Maker, we talk a bit more about how WLMM was built: the weekly meetings with teams from Office and Windows about how to best …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 am

Hotmail DAV Protocol retired; won’t work in Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage

Last June, the Windows Live Hotmail team posted on some upcoming changes to the way Hotmail is handled by client email readers, and as of September 1st (yesterday, most places), the old protocol, DAV, (or Web DAV) has been retired

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Descent into the video posting maelstrom

maelstrom Yesterday I drove out to Redmond (which can take anywhere from 25 minutes to 2 hours depending on traffic – actually made great time) to meet with Mike Torres and talk a bit about Windows Live Movie Maker, which was …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am

SxSW 2010 voting closes Friday; thumbs up for Angus and Bing?

sxsw SxSW Interactive, held every year in Austin, Texas (SxSW 2010 is March 17-21) is fast becoming the social networking place to be.  Of course it doesn’t hurt that it’s held in conjunction with SxSW Music, one of the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 am

Bing Maps Imagery Release, August 2009

The Bing Maps Imagery release of August covers 101,486 kilometers! This release includes imagery of Algeria, Australia, China, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Greece, India, Japan, Kiribati, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, …

By Sunshine in Bing
September 1st, 2009 at 2:26 pm

WL Movie Maker Program Manager Mike Torres – a LiveSide interview

wlmm Windows Live Movie Maker version 1.0 for Vista and Windows 7 was released nearly two weeks ago, and we gave you an early glimpse of it when it first came out (and even before that).  Today we were able to …

By Kip Kniskern in Interviews
September 1st, 2009 at 8:36 am

Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones Coming To A Store Near You On Oct. 6

Microsoft announced today that Windows Mobile 6.5 phones will be widely available at retail stores worldwide on Oct. 6, 2009. The new phones will be offered by the following phone makers and mobile operators:

In North America: Mobile

By Sunshine in Mobile
September 1st, 2009 at 12:17 am

Microsoft Misses Target Date For Office Web Apps Preview

microsoftoffice_5F00_61083C27[1] The Industry Standard reports that Microsoft will miss the target date for the Office Web Apps Tech Preview. The original plan was to release test versions of the applications in August. In an email the Industry Standard received, Microsoft stated …

By Sunshine in News
August 29th, 2009 at 3:49 pm