The Wall St. Journal has posted an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and when asked which of the two (Apple or Facebook) he considered to be the biggest threat, Schmidt had some very interesting things to say…about Bing:

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We’ve already shown you 3 comparison videos (Windows Phone 7 vs iPhone 4 and Android) in a previous article, but today another interesting one turned up that we didn’t want to hold back from you. Here it is, a …

The biggest wish/request from the WP7 Dev Community for Windows Phone 7 Tools and platform has been granted:

You can now download the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. Provided in this download are all the templates,

Office Web Apps, only a little more than 100 days old, already has had 20 million users view, edit, and share Office documents on the web.

Today they’re releasing a number of new features, including embedded Excel and PowerPoint docs, …

The still fairly new Hotmail has gotten a string of smaller updates. Some were planned, like push email, calendar, and contacts through Exchange ActiveSync, but others were the results of feedback received and acted on during the rollout: right-click …

Out of the ashes of Bing cashback rises Bing Rewards, a new program launched today in the US that offers up merchandise rewards or a chance to donate credits to education charities for using the Bing Bar:

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Or at least it is here.  We told you this weekend about a new feature (and a name change) for Windows Live/Hotmail Calendar, and it looks like the weather bits are live:

The Hotmail Calendar now features a 5 day …

We know that at some point a new version of Windows Live Essentials is coming.  For one thing, it’s in beta, and fortunately for us Windows Live applies the beta tag a bit more judiciously than some other services *cough* …

Well this is kind of sad.  A notice on Alerts.Live.com today is announcing that Windows Live Alerts will shut down:

Thank-you for your interest in Windows Live Alerts. After much consideration we have decided to discontinue this service as part

The first download numbers for IE9 are in, and according to the Exploring IE blog, over 2 million people worldwide downloaded the IE9 beta.  The blog post compares that with the launch of IE8, where it took 5 days …