Windows Phone “Tango” 256MB RAM device limitations and new features officially confirmed

Windows Phone TangoMicrosoft revealed the next update to Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed “Tango”, during Mobile World Congress this year. However, the company had been particularly silent about this update, mainly due to the fact that the update is targeted at bringing …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
March 7th, 2012 at 6:42 am

Build Bing Maps into your Windows 8 Metro style app with new SDK

kiev_c_RGBNow that the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out, developers are going to want to begin (if they haven’t already) to create new Metro style apps.  Just in time to make that process easier, Bing today released a new SDK …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Developer
March 6th, 2012 at 10:04 am

Are you a Windows 8 fan?

windows 8 beta fishIt’s been almost a week since the download links for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview have gone live, and if you were one of the million or so previewers to get the bits, you’ve had some time to install and …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
March 6th, 2012 at 8:50 am

Bing Search blog tackles Search Quality with “Insights”

bing communityDr. Harry Shum introduced a new series of blog posts on the Bing Search blog today, focusing on “Search Quality Insights”.  Shum contends that “there has never been a more fascinating or challenging time in the search space”, noting that …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
March 5th, 2012 at 10:45 am

The long botched history of Windows Live

As longtime readers know, Windows Live and LiveSide go way back.  We started this blog in January 2006,  two months after the Windows Live initiative was announced.  Since then, we’ve been there for beta tests and the transitions and transformations, …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
March 4th, 2012 at 10:16 pm

Windows 8 Consumer Preview keynote posted

Earlier today (February 29th), Steven Sinofsky, Julie Larson-Greene and others took the stage at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview launch event in Barcelona, in conjunction with the Mobile World Congress.  The event wasn’t webcast live, and although the download went …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 29th, 2012 at 11:42 pm

Bing apps for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

If you’re not in a hotel meeting room, you’re probably downloading or have already downloaded the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.  If so, you can play with three new Bing apps: Finance, Weather, and Maps.  The Bing team has posted …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 29th, 2012 at 11:30 am

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, apps now available

At a non-webcast press event at MWC in Barcelona today, Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Greene took the stage to unveil the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.  The new operating system, with its Metro style interface and “fast and fluid” design, is …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 29th, 2012 at 7:31 am

Microsoft and Nokia announce new Unified Map Design

When Microsoft and Nokia signed their strategic partnership last year it was noted that the companies planned to work together not only on Windows Phones but also their mapping technology, today an aspect of that partnership has been announced with …

By kip in Bing
February 28th, 2012 at 10:45 am

Bing has a new results page design, rolling out to more people

Today we were tipped off by @ParasValecha about a new design for Bing. Microsoft has been testing a few different designs for the search engine over the past few months and a few readers of Liveside have had access to …

By kip in Bing
February 28th, 2012 at 12:45 am
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