July, 2010
Hotmail upgrade? Not so great for some
While it’s been exciting to track the #NewHotmailHere sightings and from what we can tell from the comments on Twitter and here on thi ...
Two new Zune HD apps: MSN Money, and Animalgrams
Even though the Zune HD app upgrade path to Windows Phone 7 is a dead end, it’s nice to see a couple of new apps appear ready for download t ...
Bing Maps for WordPress
If you have a WordPress blog and want to map out some information for your blog readers, then you can make use of the Bing Maps for WordPres ...
Safari, Street Slide, games, and more: the Bing roundup post
Bing continues to (dare we say it?) innovate, and while some of the improvements aren’t earth-shattering, and indeed some bits of news aren’ ...
What you’re saying about #NewHotmailHere
As the blog post on Inside Windows Live said, the Hotmail rollout is really picking up steam! Thanks to all of you who have taken the ...
Comparison shopping with the Bing iPhone App
The latest version of the Bing for iPhone (and iPod Touch) app features visual scanning of barcodes and cover art. What would you do with th ...
#NewHotmailHere sightings around the world – Hotmail Wave 4 rollout expanded
We’ve been noticing a significant increase in the number of #NewHotmailHere tags on Twitter since Monday morning, as well as receiving ...
No official list of Windows Phone 7 device makers
We reported last Friday that there would be 5 hardware partners with Windows Phone 7 handsets ready at launch. Turns out later that day Micr ...
Loose lips sink ships
This week it’s TechReady at Microsoft in Seattle, a semi-annual event (this is TechReady 11) where Microsoft product teams show off th ...
Hotmail Wave 4 Conversation View: gone missing (updated: it’s back)
For those of you lucky enough to have Hotmail Wave 4, apparently one of the new features – Conversation View, has been at least temporarily ...
Speech recognition in Windows Phone 7
Microsoft acquired TellMe back in March 2007, and the speech recognition features that came with it have been finding their way into a numbe ...
5 Hardware partners have Windows Phone 7 handsets available at launch
Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for Microsoft, told Pocket-lint that Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung will have Windows Phone 7 handse ...
Bing Homepage Visual Search Gallery
On the Bing homepage you can take a look at the previous 7 days worth of homepage images by clicking the arrows. But what if you want to vie ...
Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Calendar: What you can and can’t do
So many developers have gotten their hands on one of the Windows Phone 7s given out by Microsoft, and our friend Paul Thurrott is one of the ...
Microsoft Employees to get a Windows Phone 7
Not only developers are getting a free Windows Phone 7, the 90,000 Microsoft employees world-wide probably will too! Only, unlike the develo ...
Facebook stories on a Bing Map
Today, Facebook launched a new application, dubbed Facebook Stories, to highlight shared stories about people who have reconnected with frie ...
Windows Live users get free mobile web access in Germany
My eye just caught the following news item: Jul 21, 2010 (DMEUROPE via COMTEX) -- Microsoft Germany has announced a new exclusive service fo ...
Bing Webmaster Tools updated, now utilizes Silverlight 4
Today, the Bing Webmaster Tools gets an update. What’s new in the updated Bing Webmaster Tools? Everything. With your feedback in mind, the ...
Microsoft Security Essentials new beta available now
Brandon LeBlanc over at Inside Windows Live just posted on the availability of a new beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials, the free ...
First screenshot of Windows Phone Live revealed
Exactly one week ago, we told you about a new service coming to Windows Live which brings the world of Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live toge ...