2009

Bing movie searches include sponsored video

Bing has been quietly updating features since its last major update last month, with new looks for stock price and movie searches.  An announcement on the Bing blog pointed out the movie search feature:

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The wait is nearly over: conference season to begin with CES

Microsoft has traditionally made big announcements about upcoming products and services at tech conferences, and while the breathless anticipation for CES isn’t quite what it used to be, Microsoft will have some significant announcements to make this spring.  Speculation is …

Windows Live engineering blog gets rolling

While we took a little time off for the holidays (and moved web hosts), we didn’t want to miss commenting on Inside Windows Live, the new Windows Live engineering blog over at the Windows Blog.  We decided to hold …

LiveSide 2010

dust_bowl Pardon the dust, we’ve gone ahead and made some changes to our site and your experience.  For one thing, we’ve moved off our dedicated server to WebHost4Life, definitely a cost saving move, but we haven’t sacrificed much if anything …

Contest winners announced

The winners of both contests, Bing’s Home Sweet Homepage photo contest and the Seasonal Synth Challenge- Holiday Lights, have been announced.

Home Sweet Homepage

Entries from all across the globe came in, but the winner is Justin Kraemer’s

Windows Live Mail and Photo Gallery Wave 4 Revealed: Ribbon UI

We told you that Neowin had gotten their hands on some screenshots of Wave 4 Messenger and Writer earlier this month. Now, at the doorstep of 2010, some (very early) screenshots of Wave 4 Windows Live Mail and Windows Live

Happy Holidays from LiveSide.net: Our Holiday Letter

HappyHolidays Hard to believe that we’re wrapping up our 4th year of LiveSide.net (January 3rd, 2010 will mark the beginning of year 5), but just wanted to wish everyone the happiest of holidays, let you know we’re still here and plan …

Read and post to Microsoft Forums from Windows Live Mail with NNTP Bridge

nntp bridge Even in our MSN and Windows Live MVP days, we were never big forums posters, but we remember following a long simmering feud between the (mainly) MVPs and the Microsoft forums about NNTP access to the forums.  Basically, Microsoft wanted …

US Search share: Nielsen shows Bing growth, too

The Nielsen Company just released their November US Search share numbers, with Bing continuing a slow climb up the charts.  Nielsen last month changed their methodology, so comparisons before last month aren’t relevant, but here are the numbers for the …

Inside Windows Live: new on The Windows Blog

Some good news tonight from Windows Live Corporate Vice President Chris Jones, who in an initial blog post announced the creation of “Inside Windows Live: The engineering behind Hotmail, Messenger, and Windows Live”.  In the post, Jones explains …