Just spent the day at SVC, the Silicon Valley Campus of Microsoft in Mountain View, California. Since there is an embargo until 9pm pdt tonite, I can’t give you any details just yet, and will actually be on an airplane, …
Photosynth and Photo Gallery panoramic stitching explained
Learning something new is great, which is why I thought Steve Clayton’s post today deserved a mention. In it Steve quotes a member of the Microsoft Research team, who explains how the panoramic stitching feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery …
MSN UK launches redesigned homepage
After the January Effect we spoke about some months back, all has been quiet on the MSN hompeage front for a while now. Today MSN launched a new homepage design for the UK portal. Featuring a new header with a …
Live Search at a crossroads: Searchification and beyond
On Wednesday, I’ll be at “Searchification” where Microsoft will be presenting their improvements to Live Search, some of which we’ve already seen. While even the likes of Mini Msft seemed to be pretty impressed by what they saw …
Introducing (ahem) Windows Live Translator beta
Andrea Jessee, a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft Research Machine Translation Group, has somewhat belatedly but thoroughly posted on the Windows Live Translator beta.
Andrea highlights some of the features of the “Bi-Lingual Viewer” which didn’t get much press when …
MSN Soapbox now part of MSN Video (beta)
A number of changes to MSN Soapbox just occured, most notably that Soapbox is no longer a stand-alone site, but has become a tab at http://next.video.msn.com.
The old url for Soapbox, Soapbox.msn.com, now resolves to show the “Soapbox User …
Hotmail Plus now offers POP Access
Users for years have been lamenting the fact that Hotmail was only available as an http protocol, and did not offer POP access. Well that’s now changed for Hotmail Plus users, and plans are in the works for making …
Live Search “leaked”: a clarification
On last Wednesday night, Akram Hussein, a Windows Live Platform Program Manager, went home and was surfing the internet when he came across a new version of Live Search. He checked to make sure he wasn’t on the Microsoft …
Using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live In Your Blog Posts and Websites
Last week I posted about my interview with Angus Logan and Danny Thorpe and included the whole interview in the blog post by using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. But just what did I need to do to get …
Live Search 2.0 begins rollout
Apparently Microsoft can’t wait to get the new Live Search up and running before next week’s Searchification event, as the new look (and better results) search is beginning to show up in the wild.
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