Catherine Heller has recently done an interview with Charles Teague, Lead Developer on the Windows Live Writer team. In the interview (which you can see after the jump) Charles talks about what Live Writer is, what blog engines it …
How to build a cloud: Debra Chrapaty on data centers
When we talked to Bill Gates last November at Mix n Mash, he described Windows Live:
…All those consumer services are basically big, big volume. They’re tiny businesses in a sense, but they’re very important for the population of users
Microsoft acquires Powerset – Mainstream search goes to the next level
After much ho-humming around whether Microsoft would or would-not acquire Powerset, the deal is now done and announced over on the Live Search blog. Though the price has not been announced, ReadWriteWeb were running with a rumour a …
Office Live Small Business reaches 1 million subscribers
Office Live Small Business, the beta for small businesses to establish an online presence with a free website, domain name, and 100 email addresses, has reached 1 million subscribers, according to a Microsoft press release. Currently up and …
Google Maps Street View “drive-bys” Microsoft and Live Maps
A Google Maps Street View car was spotted on the Microsoft campus the other day, according to a post over on Gizmodo. Apparently the “GooCar”, as Gizmodo calls it, got a little too close to Building 116, where Live Maps …
New version of FolderShare for Windows available
A new version of FolderShare for Windows (there’s a Mac client available too, but that apparently hasn’t been updated as of yet) is now available. From the FolderShare team blog:
…There’s a new version of FolderShare for Windows available
Thanks Bill
Today is Bill Gates’ last full day at Microsoft, as he transitions from Microsoft to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I’ve had a good time this past week or so watching some of the retrospectives, and thinking about how …
Microsoft launches new Windows Mobile homepage – $200m Free The People project starts
Today Microsoft has launched an updated version of the Windows Mobile homepage over on Microsoft.com, powered by Silverlight. While not big news in itself, this launch is part of Microsoft’s new project to better promote its consumer offerings, which under …
Microsoft plans acquisition of MobiComp: Portugese Mobile services company
Microsoft has just announced that it plans to acquire MobiComp. MobiComp is, according to the press release:
……a company that helped pioneer technologies allowing the backup and restoration of mobile data and mobile posting of social content to Web
Don’t like the 20TB of new data in Virtual Earth? Submit your own!
Another big data update over at Virtual Earth, over 20 TB, including Microsoft UltraCam images of Iowa City in drier times:
(a more recent picture from the Des Moines Register, below)…
…and other non-Ultra-cam imagery of lots of …
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