Bing adds Carousel to News search

Microsoft is betting big on “Satori”, the code name for the Bing technology that attempts to understand relationships between “the people, places and things around us”, and most of the announced improvements to Bing have involved Satori-driven search results, including Autosuggest from the search box and its Snapshot sidebar feature.  Now today, as announced in a blog post on the Bing Search blog, Bing is adding a Carousel, much like the one on the Bing home page, to news search results.  (The carousel only appears under the “News” tab, it isn’t currently available for a general search):

bing carousel

In addition, Bing is expanding the news index to go back beyond its current two week news window. … read more

Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin

Today, on the Bing Search blog, Bing Director Stefan Weitz posted on some thoughts he and his team had while watching last week’s Google I/O keynote.  Weitz starts off by summing… Read more

Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin

More Xbox One details emerge: TV integration, Second-hand play, more

Microsoft wanted to make today’s Xbox One announcements about “big themes”, but of course, with all the attention of the gaming world focused on a tent in Redmond, that isn’t… Read more

More Xbox One details emerge: TV integration, Second-hand play, more

New Xbox Revealed as Xbox One

After months of speculation, Microsoft has now officially announced the new Xbox. Following a brief introductory video, Don Mattrick, President of Interactive Entertainment… Read more

New Xbox Revealed as Xbox One

Xbox: revealing

Today is the big day for Xbox news, as Microsoft has gathered members of the press and others together on the Microsoft campus, all under a big ass tent (it’s been raining all night… Read more

Xbox: revealing

Live Chat coming to Bing?

Chat has been a hot topic this week, what with the addition of Google contacts into Outlook.com and the backlash it caused coming from Google, new abilities to chat from within SkyDrive… Read more

Live Chat coming to Bing?

Xbox gets a new official blog: The Wire

Just in time for next week’s Xbox Reveal event, where Microsoft will for the first time unveil its next generation Xbox (Xboxes?), a new blog, Xbox Wire, debuted today:

Xbox’s… Read more

Xbox gets a new official blog: The Wire

Microsoft and Google: is this war?

Some shots were fired back and forth today between Microsoft and Google in a series of exchanges both from the stage at Google I/O, and behind the scenes with some well placed leaks… Read more

Microsoft and Google: is this war?

The next Windows Phone update (GDR2), shipping with the Lumia 925, is coming to more devices this summer

This morning (very early this morning, if you’re on the US west coast!) Nokia officially announced the Lumia 925, a lighter aluminum body version of the Lumia 920 that’s coming… Read more

The next Windows Phone update (GDR2), shipping with the Lumia 925, is coming to more devices this summer

Chat with your Google friends still “stuck on Gmail” from Outlook.com

In a blog post on the Outlook.com blog today, Microsoft has announced that it’s rolling out Google chat integration, allowing you to chat with your Google friends from Outlook.com. … Read more

Chat with your Google friends still “stuck on Gmail” from Outlook.com