At the Politics Online Conference today, Microsoft announced two new offerings, TownHall, a new “online engagement program” that politicians and others can use to “drive rich discussion around top interests and concerns”, and Campaign Ready, “a collection of …

Just a few days ago, we showed you brand new screenshots of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 Milestone 3 build. Today a French website Pinnula.fr got their hands on a handful of more Hotmail Wave 4 screenshots – only …

Johannes Kebeck, a Bing Maps Technology Specialist at Microsoft EMEA, is stuck in Stockholm due to the Icelandic volcanic ash and its effects on European air travel.  So, having a bit of extra time on his hands, he found …

Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net has done it again! Last week he showed us screenshots of Office Web Apps integration within Hotmail, and this week he’s received new screenshots showing several new features of Hotmail Wave 4. Here it is:

When …

 
As promised during the launch, it’s here!

Want to know which version you have installed now? You can check that at, and also install the latest from www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight.…

Edit: Voting date has been extended from 4/19 to 4/20 at 12:00 p.m. PT and winners will now be announced on 4/21 at 9:00 a.m. PT.

The 12 finalists in the student Earth Day Photo Contest have been chosen out …

Bing has started to roll out social search to a small subset of users (US) and queries – so you may or may not see it appearing on your search results page. The team plans to make the feature available …

Yesterday was the Silverlight 4 Launch. Launch, where are the bits? I don’t see them! That’s right, there aren’t any until tomorrow, April 15th. Bit strange no, a launch without the actual product…

Anyways, nothing we can do about …

Yesterday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4. A little warning for those of you using the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP:

If you install the retail (RTM) release of Visual Studio 2010 on the same machine

The following 20 countries will gain access to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform this week in the mentioned currencies:

• Australia $ AUD
• Brazil $ USD
• Chile $ USD
• Colombia $ USD
• Costa Rica $ USD
• Cyprus € EUR
• Czech Republic