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Twitter on Bing sports a new cleaner look

Just noticed a tweet from Fuse Labs, Microsoft Research’s applied development arm, that one of their projects, Twitter on Bing, has been updated with a new look:

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Here’s a shot of the original design of the Twitter on …

Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone supports WLM contacts

yhoomsgr If you use the Yahoo! Messenger iPhone app, a new version released yesterday now supports the ability to chat with your Windows Live contacts, according to a  post on the Yahoo! Messenger Blog dated April 4th.

Now when you’re on

“Mystery event” hosted by MSFT next week: “it’s time to share”

500x_pinkpure_01 With all the hoopla that surrounded the unveiling of Windows Phone 7 Series in the past few weeks, we kind of forgot about “Pink”, the new consumer phone (think Sidekick II) coming from Microsoft.

Now, according to Engadget and others, …

Another Bing UK tv ad

The third in a series of tv ads in the UK for Bing is out. Like the others both in the US and UK, the ad features characters suffering from “search overload”:

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Enjoy!…

Microsoft, Apple reach search deal

After months of rumors and speculation, Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs jointly announced a new search deal to power Apple’s new iPad.  Speaking from a Starbucks in Renton at a press conference attended only by a kid skateboarding by, the …

More from Bing Maps: new apps, new imagery

where20 Sunshine told you about some of the announcements coming from Bing Maps earlier today, but the news didn’t stop there.  Timing the announcements to come at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Bing Maps today also announced three new …

Translator Widget v2

We just updated our Microsoft Translator widget to version 2, complete with the “Collaborative Translations”, which allows you to choose alternate translations and make suggestions.  We purposely choose to use the translator widget, instead of working with the more flexible …

Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP)

LiveSino.net is at it again, this time capturing an info panel purportedly from the Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials Beta download page, revealing that the latest version of Windows Live Essentials will indeed require at least Windows Vista SP2 …

Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 beta available

A public beta of Microsoft Messenger for Mac version 8 (build #08.00.00.100305) was released a few days ago, after nearly two years between updates.  Looks like there’s still quite a ways to go, judging from the Known Issues in the …

Hotmail: The New Busy

You may have noticed a number of ads appear recently for Hotmail, with the tagline “The New Busy”.  There’s even a website to promote the campaign, and now today the rapidly changing Windows Live Log-In page is featuring what appears …