The Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Movie Maker team (and as it happens one of LiveSide’s oldest friends, from back in the MSN Spaces days), Mike Torres, posted on Windows Live Wire today with a status update for …
Bing launch wrap up
Bing launched this week, revealing the new name and “decision engine” tagline, a new more organized layout for search results, tighter integration for verticals like Shopping (including Bing cashback), Travel (including the Farecast technology for predicting airfares and now hotel …
Windows Mobile 6.5 DTK For Developers Released
Microsoft has released the Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK DTK for developers.
…The Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit adds documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images and tools to Visual Studio that let you build applications for
Photosynth Gets A Whole New Look And A Few Improvements
I don’t know what it is with the Photosynth Blog feed, but this one just turned up today, whilst the date on the post says May 21st… Anyways old news or not, to me and to most of you …
More TV Commercials from Bing, set to air tonite
Now Bing has its own YouTube Channel, complete with 2 new ads. These are variations on a “search overload” theme, much more focused than the initial ad we posted last night. Here are the two ads up so far …
Dr. Qi Lu at SMX Advanced
At SMX Advanced, Danny Sullivan spent an interesting 45 minutes talking with Qi Lu about Bing. For his first time in public, Lu was engaging but serious about the job ahead, while seeming relaxed and comfortable onstage with Sullivan. They …
Boys and girls, the first Bing commercial
Thanks to one of our alert readers, we get our first look at a Bing commercial:
More information on the Bing Virtual Presskit page on Microsoft Press Pass
Of course it’s a natural that we’d get the cute little “Bing” …
Live Agents Platform Retires Support For Bots, Tbot Gets Own Run Time Environment
Tbot, the translation buddy for Windows Live Messenger has to go through some remaking as the Live Agents Platform is retiring support for the bots. As TBot is based on the same platform, the team is developing their own …
Microsoft to discontinue DAV email protocol September 1st
In a blog post on Windows Live Wire, Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the DAV protocol for accessing Hotmail on September 1, 2009. DAV (or WebDAV) is an older protocol, not suited to large inboxes, and …
China blocks Bing.com, Hotmail.com, Live.com, Twitter, Flickr
Receiving word from multiple sources, including some of our friends in China, that a number of websites in China are blocked, including Bing.com, Microsoft’s newly rebranded “decision engine”.
Danwei.org, P2P.net, and our friends at LiveSino.net have reports on …
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