According to a press release from Russia’s most popular search engine Yandex, their search product will be replacing Bing as the default search engine on Windows Phones sold in Russia. Below is an excerpt from the press release:
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Yandex replaces Bing as the default search engine for Windows Phones in Russia
Taking a glimpse at the future of SkyDrive (from their blog post)
Over at the official Inside Windows Live team blog, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres, Group Program Managers for SkyDrive, recently made a blog post analysing some of the stats of the current competitive environment, outlining what they think are …
LiveSide presents Questions and Requests, first off is SkyDrive
Following my meeting with some of Microsoft UK’s Hotmail team last month it has been decided that the event was a great platform to provide feedback to the company through the questions and feature requests I took with me. Microsoft …
Microsoft acquires VideoSurf, to integrate video content discovery into Xbox LIVE and Bing search
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired California-based company VideoSurf, which provides video discovery technology to customers and enables them to quickly and accurately find the video they want. Their technology is pretty unique in that it doesn’t solely rely …
Microsoft to produce Kinect hardware for Windows in 2012
Microsoft’s Xbox 360’s Kinect motion sensor had been one of the best selling tech gadget in the recent years, even breaking Guinness World Records for the fastest selling consumer electronics device within a 60-day period. But it appears Microsoft’s …
Confirmed: Microsoft Lync coming to lots of mobile devices within next 4 weeks
At today’s “Microsoft Big Picture” event in Melbourne, Australia, Microsoft apparently announced that Lync, Microsoft’s corporate instant messaging client, will be coming to Windows Phone, Android, Blackberry, and “iDevices” within the next 4 weeks.
The news was tweeted out …
SkyDrive blog post: setting the stage for a new version, or admitting failure?
What a strange, but very interesting document! Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres give us a “state of cloud storage” post where they admit:
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Bing Maps brings back 360º immersive panorama view, in addition to Street Slide
Back in May this year, we first noticed that Microsoft had replaced Bing Map’s Streetside panoramic view with Microsoft Research’s “Street Slide”, which lets users navigate street level imagery sideways rather than a full 360 degrees panoramic view. On May …
Bing Daily Deals is now MSN Offers
Today we received an email from Microsoft announcing that Bing Daily Deals (http://www.bing.com/daily-deals), powered by Tippr, will soon be rebranded as MSN Offers. As we reported earlier, the service lets you subscribe to daily emails telling …
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