Microsoft has provided me with a response to some of the questions and requests people had for the SkyDrive team. As it turns out I didn’t exactly choose a great time to run this project for SkyDrive as we have …
Microsoft, Silver Lake partnership reworking its Yahoo! bid, says Reuters
According to an article posted late last night on Reuters, a partnership of investors, including Microsoft and Silver Lake Partners, is reworking a bid for a minority stake in Yahoo!, which has been somewhat in limbo since it …
Hell: Frozen over–iJustine prefers Bing to Siri on iPhone
iJustine, the self professed Apple fangirl and internet personality, just tweeted out to her almost 1.4 million Twitter followers something almost unthinkable – she prefers Bing voice search on the iPhone to Siri:
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Siri, which debuted with …
The new Hotmail is here. Questions? Ask #HotmailQnA on Twitter
Many of our readers noticed that they have been being updated to the New Hotmail, with “flags done right”, “schedule cleanup” and more, in the past 24 hours or so, and a post today on Inside Windows Live confirms that …
Does SkyDrive’s “move” dialogue box point to future storage locations?
I was using SkyDrive earlier and decided that I should probably tidy it up now it’s so easy to move folders around following the most recent update. I went about selecting various folders that only stored photos to move …
Are you on the new Hotmail?
Back in early October, we flew down to San Francisco to learn a bit more about some improvements both to the functionality of and the thinking behind Hotmail. In a blog post timed to coincide with the event, Dick …
Microsoft details its plans for identity protection on Windows 8
Today Steven Sinofsky published another post about Windows 8 this time discussing how Microsoft is planning to tackle identity protection on the new operating system. The article first discusses how typical users of Windows in the US have about 25 …
Can you build a better Messenger? Live Connect moves towards open standards
Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, Dare Obasanjo lays out the current Microsoft story for open standards support on the Live Connect Platform, and highlighting Messenger’s publicly available access via XMPP. In Dare’s words:
…This means that anyone
It’s official: Nokia 710 to launch in US, on Jan. 11th, for $49.99
Squarely positioning itself to appeal to the “150 million Americans who do not yet have a smartphone”, T-Mobile is set to announce that the first Nokia Windows Phone to go on sale in the US will be the Nokia 710.…
It’s here! Windows Phone SkyDrive app is now live
This morning, Microsoft announced new SkyDrive apps for both Windows Phone and iPhone, the only problem being that the Windows Phone version wasn’t live yet.
We just got word via tweets from @withinrafael that the app has appeared on the …
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