June, 2012

Exclusive: New Office 2013 application icons revealed (updated)

Office 2013 LogoJust a month ago, LiveSide brought you the new Office 2013 logo (shown on the right), which brings the logo in line with other Microsoft logos such as Windows and Visual Studio, giving it a slight metro-style touch. However, with …

Exclusive: Microsoft Word 2013 to support built-in PDF editing

Office 2013 LogoThose who had been using Microsoft Word for their daily word processing tasks knows that ever since Office 2010 the software included the ability to save Word documents as PDF format (and an official plug-in is available for Office 2007 …

Bing Venue Maps goes global, now available in over 30 countries

Bing Maps logoSo it appears that the 165 terabytes of imagery data added to Bing Maps wasn’t the only update made to the mapping service. The Verge reported today that Microsoft has rolled out another update to Bing Maps which expanded the …

Microsoft.com website gets a new design

Microsoft LogoMicrosoft had been giving all of its properties a fresh new look recently. From Windows Phone to Windows 8, from Bing to Xbox 360, and from Hotmail to SkyDrive, Microsoft had been incorporating its Metro style design into …

Windows Phone “Tango” begins global rollout

Windows Phone TangoIt’s finally here. After Microsoft published details about its Windows Phone Commercial Refresh 3 update, codenamed “Tango” (build 8773), last week, the company has finally let the flood gates open and started to push the update to devices around the …

Microsoft to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion

Merger Infographic_v11_062412Rumors had been floating around since mid-June that Microsoft would be acquiring Yammer, the leading enterprise social network used in 85% of the top 500 Fortune companies. The rumor started off as an “overheard” in a nearby café near …

Just what IS Microsoft’s (and Nokia’s) map strategy, anyway?

Today, on the Bing Maps blog, Microsoft announced its largest aerial satellite and Global Ortho image release ever, totaling 165 terabytes of new imagery live now on Bing Maps.  This single update is larger than the total “Aerial footprint” …

SkyDrive’s new logo confirmed

Earlier this week we sighted what we believed to be a new SkyDrive logo appearing on the Microsoft Surface website, where the direction of the cloud has changed, as well as the removal of the yellow swirl/ribbon. This swirl during …

HTC’s Windows Phone 8 launch devices line-up revealed

HTCDuring the Windows Phone Summit held on Wednesday, Microsoft revealed the list of OEMs who will be release the first Windows Phone 8 devices during launch sometime this Fall. Amongst these OEMs is HTC, who had been a long-time partner …

Bing Image Search gets a new look (reminds us of SkyDrive)

Microsoft released the new Bing last month, giving the search engine a fresher and cleaner look, however many of its search verticals such as Bing Image Search only received the new header, but not an actual update. Today over at …