October, 2009

What’s coming for Live.com?

If you’ve recently visited Bing by typing http://www.live.com into the address bar, you would’ve noticed the following notice across the top of the page:

Bing Notice

When Bing first launched, this Q&A post over at the Bing & adCenter Community told us …

New Bing ad: Oooooooh scary!

Looks like the avalanche of pre Christmas Windows and Bing ads are about upon us, as Microsoft unveiled the latest “Decision Engine” ad on their YouTube channel today:

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Bing: the Vampire Engine, on YouTube

Apparently vampires prefer Portland, Oregon …

MSN Direct service to shut down Jan. 1, 2012

spot-watch Citing a decreasing demand, and advances in other technologies offering similar services, MSN is set to discontinue all MSN Direct service on January 1st, 2012, according to a notice on the MSN Direct homepage.

MSN Direct service will be

Long Zheng watches TV: finds Bing ads

Our good friend Long Zheng just posted a series of Australian TV ads for Bing.com.au, one of which he spotted while taking a rare break from reading patent applications and Microsoft Careers posts:

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Bing on Aussie TV

Long …

Windows Live Sync forced upgrade

Last week Windows Live Sync was taken offline to fix a “serious problem in Windows Live Sync that could cause problems in rare cases for people who used Windows Easy Transfer”, according to Eric Doerr on the Windows Live Sync

It’s Windows 7 Day!

Balloons_by_wisseh Just wanted to say congratulations to Microsoft, Windows, and Windows Live on the launch of Windows 7.  We’ve been using Windows 7 since PDC last year (well since Longhorn 4051, really), are truly excited both about the stability and quality …

Bing poised to announce deals with Twitter, Facebook: All Things Digital

In an exclusive, Kara Swisher from All Things Digital is reporting that Microsoft is set to announce deals with both Twitter and Facebook that will incorporate both Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates into Bing.  Details are sketchy at this …

Which Windows Live service is next to go?

deadpool49 We haven’t had the heart to start our own little Windows Live Deadpool, but the hits just keep on coming.  Windows Live OneCare was probably the first shocker, and then Soapbox (ok not a Windows Live service, but it almost

LiveSide: the latest on Link Spam

spam_1 If you’d been watching our membership counter in the past week or so, you would have noticed that we’ve gained about 300 users this past week, with more coming in all the time.  Normally you might think this was a …

Twitter on Bing: live today in the US; trends, links, and more

Well Microsoft did indeed announce partnerships with Twitter and Facebook today (and shortly after, Marissa Mayer over at Google followed suit, announcing their own partnership with Twitter).  As quoted by MG Siegler at TechCrunch, here’s what Dr. Qi Lu