October, 2010

Microsoft All in, all over

One thing we learned this week at PDC, Microsoft is All In, all over the place.  This year, they’ve been All In with Azure and the cloud..

“For the cloud, we’re all in,” said Ballmer during an address and

FourSquare teams up with Photo Gallery: tips on great photo spots

FourSquare and Windows Live Photo Gallery have teamed up in a bit of a pilot project to help you find great places to take photos, starting in 3 US cities: New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.

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Running IE9 Tech Preview 6 with full UI

This morning Dean Hachamovitch announced a new tech preview of IE9, complete with CSS3 2D Tranforms, “and a whole lot more”.  However, like the IE9 tech previews before it, this latest preview is meant to show off some new tests …

PDC keynote: IE9, WP7, Azure

We’re sitting in the Microsoft Conference Center listening to Steve Ballmer, Dean Hachamovitch, Scott Guthrie, Bob Muglia and others talk about the latest in Microsoft’s developer platforms, including IE9, WP7, and Azure

A new platform preview of IE9, Platform Preview …

PDC 10 on tap

pdc10Maybe because we don’t have to travel for this one, or because we’re not expecting big Windows Live news, but this PDC has kind of snuck up on us.  Starting Thursday morning in Redmond, Microsoft will be hosting the first …

Microsoft Tag in Visual Search makes downloading iPhone Apps easy!

How do you find that top iPhone app you are looking for? There are over 300,000 iPhone Apps to wade through today! Fear not, Bing is making it easy on you. They’ve created the top iphone app gallery in

Is Ray Ozzie going down fighting?

Last week Steve Ballmer announced that Ray Ozzie would be stepping down from his position as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, and today , Ozzie published a memo he wrote to “Executive Staff and direct reports”, entitled “The Dawn

Messenger for Mac 8 out of Beta

Today Messenger for Mac 8 came out of beta! It will be available (soon) as part of the Office for Mac 2011 suite, and is also available as a free standalone download.

Messenger for Mac 8 is free and …

Some details about the upcoming Hotmail full-session SSL feature

By now you should all have the latest Hotmail update announced back in September 2010. As we mentioned last week, unfortunately the long-awaited full-session SSL (or HTTPS) feature did not make the cut in this update. We know that …

Talking Windows Live with CodeCast

Ken Levy was a Visual FoxPro MVP, went to work for Microsoft where we met him, left again, and has been busy on a number of projects ever since.  One of those projects is “CodeCast”, a podcast for …