Yesterday, Corporate Vice President for Windows Live Engineering Chris Jones, in a post entitled “A preview of Windows Live for Windows 8”,  expanded a bit on new Windows Live apps “based on Metro principles” and “targeted at Windows …

Today at Facebook’s F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg is unveiling some major new changes to Facebook, including the introduction of Timeline, a new way to curate and share your life, via Facebook.

One of the filters available in Timeline is Maps, …

Bing Rewards (or more officially, the Bing Rewards US Preview), a way for Bing users to earn points for searching on Bing or clicking on special searches to earn more points, is celebrating its first birthday today with a special …

Following the launch of Adaptive Search last week, the Bing team has just announced another feature – Action Buttons. Currently, Bing lets users get things done faster on a website by offering “deep links”, which are links surfaced in the …

A few weeks ago we received an invitation to “forget everything you thought you knew about Hotmail” and to attend a special event on October 3rd to give Hotmail, “reinvented from the ground up”, a second look.  Well today, as …

Lots of news about Bing this week, and no, there still haven’t been any announcements about Bing HTML5, even after Build.  Everyone from disgruntled former employees to CNN Money to Google exec Eric Schmidt have been weighing in on the …

Microsoft and Nokia worked together to provide a package that will guide Nokia Symbian Developers to learn Windows Phone development.

The package includes:

• The “Windows Phone Guide for Symbian Qt Application Developers” white paper, about 100 pages

A couple of weeks ago, on September 8th, a number of Windows Live Services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive, became unreachable via their respective domain names for a period of from less than two hours to many hours, depending on how …

Last Tuesday Microsoft gave us a first glimpse into the future of Windows Live during its BUILD conference, with Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live, demoing several Windows Live Metro style apps on Windows 8. Unfortunately these …

Arriving in Anaheim earlier this week, we simply weren’t quite prepared for what we heard in our day long “reviewer’s workshop” on Monday, in the keynotes, and in getting someh hands on time with Windows 8 running on a touch …