Bing announces Bing Central: new ways to earn Bing Rewards, preferences all in one place

Today Bing has announced a new look for the way you interact with Bing, called Bing Central.  Now, you can manage your Bing Rewards points (and earn new ones in what they’re calling “missions”), as well as manage all of …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 7th, 2011 at 10:41 am

Windows Phone goes big in New York at “launch party”

Microsoft is putting on quite a show today in New York City, complete with a giant Windows Phone with *really* live tiles featuring a live stage in the phone, a marriage proposal (?!), and a chance for New Yorkers …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
November 7th, 2011 at 10:11 am

ChevronWP7 Labs official Windows Phone unlocking service now available

ChevronWP7 LabsThe ChevronWP7 team (Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, and Long Zheng) has finally signed off on their “ChevronWP7 Labs” official unlocking service for Windows Phone users. To recap, ChevonWP7 Labs allows hobbyist developers to unlock their personal Windows Phone devices and …

By damaster in Developer Mobile
November 4th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

Could Windows 8 come to PCs, tablets, Xbox, and Windows Phone, all next year?

ww600The latest rumor to surface surrounding Windows 8 was a mention on yesterday’s (episode #233) Windows Weekly, with Paul Thurrott, Mary Jo Foley, and Leo LaPorte, when Thurrott said he’s been hearing that a new Xbox, powered by …

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 4th, 2011 at 10:42 am

Google Graveyard? Microsoft throws stones from its glass house

On Halloween, Tom Rizzo, a SharePoint Senior Director, poked some fun and threw some stones at rival Google, commenting on Google’s plan to retire Google Wave, and more.  He went so far as to create a Halloween graphic, featuring …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:41 pm

Bing announces new “hybrid” mobile apps

Bing just announcedbing-logo-horiz what its calling the “next step in the evolution of Bing for Mobile”, combining HTML5 and the mobile web browsing experience and the unique capabilities of app experiences that are now “hiding” within each mobile platform.

The …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:59 am

Hotmail Calendar gets Wave 5 M2 upgrade, other Windows Live web services to follow soon?

While browsing Hotmail Calendar today, something caught our sharp eyes as we noticed some very subtle changes to the Windows Live header. But having seen this before in internal Windows Live testing sites, we immediately realised that the service had …

By damaster in News
October 31st, 2011 at 6:03 am

Question and Answer session with the Hotmail team

I recently went to a Hotmail briefing and as many of you know I asked you to send me questions that you want the Hotmail team to answer. Well I asked as many questions as I could (over 20) …

By kip in Featured News
October 30th, 2011 at 4:11 pm

Nokia on the future of Windows Phone: Tango, Apollo and beyond

Windows PhoneLast Wednesday at Nokia World Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, finally unveiled to the world the first fruits from the Nokia-Microsoft partnership – the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710. However, to those who had been paying close attention to …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
October 30th, 2011 at 7:10 am

Microsoft’s strategy for updating Hotmail

Yesterday whilst being shown the new, soon to be released features of Hotmail I was told about Microsoft’s strategy for updating the webmail service. The strategy previously has been to release updates in waves however that view has changed slightly …

By kip in News
October 29th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
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