January, 2012

Bing out of beta in Germany, but what about those numbers?

Finally, after two years as a beta product, Bing has officially launched in Germany, according to a press release ( Bing German to English translation) issued by Microsoft Germany last Friday, January 27th.

binggermanyThe press release describes the intensive …

Microsoft to replace Hotmail ads–with Deals

In a post today on Marketing Land, Greg Sterling is reporting that Microsoft is replacing conventional display ads in Hotmail with ads for Deals, including Bing Deals and MSN Offers.  The switch, which is being tested in selected cities, …

Microsoft updates Bing Get Me There app

Today Microsoft is announcing that it has updated its Bing Get Me There app for Windows Phone for use within London. The app now pulls in transportation data from District Light Railway (DLR), London Buses and Overground services along with …

Office 15 Technical Preview announced

Microsoft-Office-2010-LogoIn a blog post today, Microsoft Corporate VP PJ Hough announced the beginning of a Technical Preview program for Office 15, with what he called “the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division”:

With Office 15, for the

Windows Phone “Tango” will support 120 languages, C++ development support coming soon

Windows Phone TangoAccording to WPSauce (via WMPU), Microsoft revealed some interesting information during a Windows Phone developers camp in India today. According to Karthik Ragubathy, who had been attending this event, the on-stage speaker had confirmed to the attendees that the …

Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza!

047d1d4aa748d2936b4956445b59cc06We received a tip yesterday about a very fun website, Centives.net,  run by a group of economics students at Lehigh University, who blog about interesting tidbits from around the web in their Daily Bulletins, and produce some …

Switching to Hotmail: what’s stopping you?

ms-hotmail-logoToday we reported on an effort by our pals over at Hotmail to make a little hay on some of Google’s recent negative publicity, by posting 3 simple steps on how to switch from Gmail to Hotmail.  Since then, in …

A shot across the bow? Microsoft’s “3 easy steps” to switch from Gmail to Hotmail

ms-hotmail-logoThis week, Google made it even more apparent that it’s either get on the Google+ bandwagon or get out of the way, announcing new privacy policies that make it far easier to share on Google+, but causing some strife

Xbox rumors everywhere

xbox720_logo1_1Seems like just about everyone (except Microsoft) is talking about some aspect of a new Xbox or Xbox experience lately, from Microsoft Points to powerful new processors to lots of speculation (and, we assume, a few wild guesses) about when …

Microsoft releases another iOS app, MSN UK for iPad

Microsoft has today announced the release a new app for Apple’s iOS platform; MSN UK for iPad. The app is divided into the categories found on the news portal and each one can all be navigated with horizontal swiping …