Microsoft to hold Hotmail press event on October 3

So after a series of updates back in June this year for Hotmail, Microsoft is inviting press analysts to attend a Hotmail event to be held on October 3 in San Francisco and New York. Below is the invitation:

Hotmail Invite

From …

By damaster in News
September 9th, 2011 at 6:09 pm

Hotmail adds inline audio player

We’ve received a couple of tips in the past 24 hours or so pointing us to what looks to be another new feature for Hotmail: an inline audio player, and with a little help from our friend F Martin Garcia…

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 9th, 2011 at 11:10 am

Building up to Build (bonus: Windows 8 Build app coming?)

Microsoft’s highly anticipated Build conference, this year’s version of PDC, WinHEC (and Mix?), all rolled into one, gets started next week with keynotes on Tuesday and Wednesday, starting at 9am PDT (GMT –7).

We’ll be there, of course, liveblogging one …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 9th, 2011 at 10:24 am

Change the look of Windows Live Messenger

The look of Windows Live Messenger is great, no? Yet sometimes you wish you could adapt it to the theming of your desktop, only if just a little. This can be achieved by applying a skin, something which only the …

By Sunshine in News
September 9th, 2011 at 6:49 am

Hotmail, Windows Live services “recovering”, or are they?

Earlier this evening (Pacific Daylight time), Hotmail, SkyDrive, all the .live.com services, MSN.com, Office 365, and live@edu addresses went down, according to various reports around the web.  Downrightnow.com, a “crowd powered” service monitoring service, pins the service disruption as …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 8th, 2011 at 10:54 pm

Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, live.com sites down (… and back up again)

A number of Microsoft online services, including Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, and seemingly most if not all of *.live.com addresses are currently “experiencing an outage”.  MSN and Office 365 have already tweeted about it:

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/MSN/status/112008273120595968″]

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/Office365/status/112008132443648000″]

Omar Shahine, …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 8th, 2011 at 9:14 pm

Bing testing tablet-style interface

Getting some reports that a new Bing interface, much more than the home page update we reported on yesterday, is starting to surface.  The interface, looking to be quite touch friendly and similar if not the same as what Steven …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 8th, 2011 at 12:24 am

Bing changes its home page (more to come?)

Today Bing announced, via Twitter,  its continued relationship with Twitter, and when a couple of Microsoft watchers asked Bing Director Stefan Weitz (via Twitter, of course) when they could expect the long awaited Bing HTML5, he hinted that …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 6th, 2011 at 9:40 pm

Zune Pass changes coming… to European customers

A number of reports surfaced today about a set of upcoming changes to Zune Pass, set to take place on September 13th.  The changes have to do with the number of devices you can connect via Zune Pass.  An …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 6th, 2011 at 5:48 pm

Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter

@Bing and @Twitter followers got treated to an interesting back and forth today as Bing and Twitter are apparently ready to announce an extension of their relationship.  Back in July, Twitter ended a relationship with Google to use its “firehose” …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 6th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
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