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Windows Phone Marketplace reaches 5,000 apps
Depending on which count you use, Windows Phone Marketplace has just, or is just about to top the 5,000 app milestone. A steady stream ...
Happy Holidays from Windows Live
LiveSide received an email today from Product Manager (Evangelism) for Windows Live Harrison Hoffman today (gee that name sounds familiar!), ...
Microsoft: 1.5 million Windows Phones sold (to mobile operators and retail)
In the first release of any sales numbers so far, Microsoft today in a press release interview of Mobile Communications Corporate Vice Presi ...
Bing feature update: Destination Pages
Planning a trip? Want to know some more about that city in advance? Check out Bing’s new destination pages. The new feature assembles all th ...
Bing Visual Search gets a new (HTML5) look
Thanks to a tweet from one of our Twitter followers, we noticed today that Bing Visual Search has a new, non-Silverlight look and feel, feat ...
A Windows Live Holiday wishlist
Next month we’ll begin our 6th year of covering Windows Live news and information. We’ve seen a lot come and go in the past 5 years (brough ...
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released
Microsoft Security Essentials, released back in September 2009 as a free replacement for the subscription-based Windows Live OneCare, has be ...
Hotmail Active Views–interactive email (for some)
While last week’s Reddit question and answer session was skewed heavily toward a desire for Microsoft to stick to standards (and leave all t ...
Windows Phone 7 codenamed “Mango” update to bring HTML5 and Silverlight support
Mary Jo Foley posted on ZDNet today reporting that Microsoft is currently planning a major Windows Phone 7 update codenamed “Mango”, which m ...
The future of Bing Mobile: Panorama Maker, Street Slide, and Bing Vision
Microsoft just brought us a major update for Bing today, and in particular for Bing Mobile for iPhone and Android, we’re getting updates suc ...
Bing inches upward (with help from Facebook?)
Bing made news today, both for its “fall update” release of new apps for iPhone and Android, partnerships with OpenTable, GrubHub, and FanSn ...
New Bing features unveiled at Bing Search Summit
Unfortunately we are unable to attend the Bing Search Summit in San Francisco, but that doesn’t stop us from bringing you the news! Today at ...
Montage: Search Fun by FuseLabs!
Last week at Le Web conference, Microsoft demoed Microsoft Montage. Montage is a shareable, personal, visual album of the web. You are ...
Bing Travel goes natural, Bing Images gets Visual Search-style revamp
The Bing team posted on their blog today announcing a new feature update for Bing Travel – the addition of natural language search. When you ...
A (new?) home for Windows Live plugins: plugins.live.com
Good news for Windows Live users, and Windows Live plugin writers, a new page, apparently a replacement for Windows Live Gallery (gallery.li ...
Australia’s biggest telco switching email to Windows Live?
Australia’s biggest telco is considering migrating customers of its BigPond Internet service provider division from their own in house ...
Two Windows Phone 7 updates coming in early 2011
Rumours around the web are saying to watch out for two of the upcoming conferences – Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, and Mobile ...
Hotmail on Reddit: some brutally honest feedback
We spotted a tweet today about a Hotmail “Ask Me Anything” session today hosted on Reddit.com, and while we weren’t able to attend, it looks ...
Windows Phone Marketplace reporting changes: will we see some actual usage numbers soon?
A post today on the Windows Phone blog makes a couple of announcements: first, that developers will now be paid their first installment in t ...
Bing introduces Mall Maps
Well this one is even more exclusive than the usual Bing “US only” announcement, but quite cool anyway: in a blog post today, Bing Maps has ...
The latest from OnMSFT.com
- No new Windows 10 Insider builds ’til at least Tuesday as Microsoft tests a fix August 18, 2017
- HoloLens display supplier says “don’t expect anything major” in next two years August 18, 2017
- Microsoft continues to invest in Detroit, to open new LinkedIn office August 18, 2017
- Over half of unprotected Windows 7 machines don’t run any AV software at all, says Microsoft August 18, 2017
- Bing Ads tweets search market share numbers, “Bing is bigger than you think” August 18, 2017
- Gamescom 2017: Check out this amazing virtual tour of the official Xbox booth August 18, 2017
- Gamescom 2017: Microsoft launches German version of its Xbox Wire news blog August 18, 2017
- Gamescom 2017: Microsoft is giving away digital prizes on Mixer again August 18, 2017
- Get ready to #DEFEND with the Defenders dashboard on Xbox One August 18, 2017
- EA Access Members can now enjoy the Madden NFL 18 before release August 18, 2017