January, 2009

Windows Live Translator adds Polish

Windows Live Translator gained yet another language, Polish this time. This brings the total amount of languages to 14, namely; Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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Some notes on the Microsoft layoffs

Big news out of Redmond today as the company announced elimination of some 5,000 positions in the next 18 months, some 1,400 of which are expected to come today.  In addition, cuts are also coming to contractors, both in non-renewal …

Map Data Release – January, 2009

Chris Pendleton, who will be speaking at EUCI GIS 2.0 Conference, lets us know there is no expansion of map data this month. That doesn’t mean nothing happened.

For North America, Europe and Asia the road data has …

Windows Live 2009: Pierro Sierra on shared data experience

We hope you’ve enjoyed our discussions with some of the program managers working on Windows Live, we really appreciate the opportunity to get to sit down and talk to them, and appreciate the opportunity to bring them to you.

Our …

Windows Live Sync downtime notice

The following appeared on the public newsgroup:LiveSync

On Monday, January 19th, Windows Live Sync will be unavailable from 11 AM
PST until 4 PM PST while we perform some upgrades. We apologize for the
inconvenience and promise to have

Windows Live 2009: Omar Shahine part 2 – People in Windows Live

While Omar Shahine has been kind enough to talk to us (twice) about POP3 support in Hotmail, it’s not really what he works on.  Omar has been busy down in Mountain View, California, working on Hotmail, and the People features …

Windows Live 2009: Jeff Kunins and Windows Live Social Experience

Jeff Kunins is a Group Program Manager for Social Networking for Windows Live, working on some of the features of Windows Live that cut across what used to be separate products.  Working on Spaces and Groups, Profile, What’s New feed, …

Windows Live 2009: Rodger Benson on Windows Live Photo Gallery

In our next interview, we spent some time with Rodger Benson, a program manager working on Photo Gallery talking about facial recognition, new upload limits for photos on photos.live.com (or Spaces), how Photo Gallery works with the suite (for example: …

Capturing “the moment” with Photosynth: Barack Obama takes the Oath of Office

On Tuesday, January 20th, Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States in front of the US Capitol in Washington DC, and in front of an estimated 2-5 million witnesses.  To capture the moment, CNN News

Live Search introduces News Alerts, have your news delivered to your inbox

Don’t want to go on the web to read your news? How about having it delivered to you? You can now. Live Search introduces News Alerts:

Now you can have your news delivered to your inbox every day,