Microsoft Security Essentials upgrade available

(UPDATE)  Apparently sometime late last night the new builds (and indeed all downloads, and the download link in the sidebar) have been removed from Connect.  The plot thickens.

In somewhat stealth mode, Microsoft Security Essentials, or MSE, posted …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 20th, 2009 at 7:16 am

Windows Live Movie Maker – get it now

Microsoft has taken the wraps of Windows Live Movie Maker, “the the one-minute way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies that are easy to share — for free”.  You can download Windows Live Essentials now and get the …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
August 19th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Windows Live On Microsoft Answers

Looking for some help with Windows Live? You can now post your questions on Microsoft Answers. They opened up a section/site dedicated to Windows Live Products.
WindowsLiveAnswers
The forum is divided into 4 sections:
Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and

By Sunshine in News
August 19th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

LiveSino gets a sneak peak at new Windows Live Movie Maker

Our buddy PicturePan2 has been busy (again), and he’s found out some new information about the upcoming release of Windows Live Movie Maker.  We can’t say much beyond what he’s said at this point, but here are some highlights …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 18th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

Two months in, Bing continues upward trend

This month’s flurry of Bing stories are piling up, with today’s Comscore numbers (released to analysts today) showing Bing with a slight improvement over last month, from 8.5 to 8.9 percent US search market share.  What is perhaps …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 18th, 2009 at 9:14 am

More Bing on iPhones, and more clicks for Bing

bingLogo_reverse_lg At the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose CA yesterday, Bing senior program manager Alessandro Catorcini revealed that Microsoft is testing an Objective C wrapper that will allow iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications.…

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Publish Your Photosynth To Facebook

So you got good at creating Photosynths. To share you can send the link to your friends or embed it into your blog but now there is one more: MySynth, a new Facebook app that publishes Photosynths right …

By Sunshine in Featured News
August 12th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Windows Live Tips And Tricks

Looking to get the most out of Windows Live? Have a look at the wl-tipsandtricks space

WindowsLiveTips&Tricks 
Here you will find tips and tricks (videos) on:

  • Hotmail
  • Messenger
  • Photo Gallery
  • home.live.com

And if you need even more, there’s a collection

By Sunshine in News
August 12th, 2009 at 11:12 am

Two new Windows Live services coming soon: Documents and Devices

Our friend Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net has discovered two new services coming soon to Windows Live Wave 4: Windows Live Documents and Windows Live Devices. Here’s a screenshot showing the two new services added to the header of an internal …

By damaster in News
August 8th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Bing in the news: Jingles, NoFollow, Pharm ads, cashback (hey all pr is good pr, right?)

If Bing’s intent is to generate buzz and keep their name in the news, it seems to be working.  Of course some news is better than others, but at least people are talking, which wasn’t the case a few months …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 6th, 2009 at 8:07 am