#F@*%BING: Why the Bing tweet was so bad

This morning, someone from the Bing PR team, in an effort to join in the efforts to help the victims of the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami, learned what happens when your PR efforts ... Read more »

Guy (with ax to grind?) disses Bing / Kayak deal

We’re sure that Jay Bhatti is probably a very nice guy.  Maybe he doesn’t have much to do after Spock.com was sold, or maybe he misses his old pals in Redmond.  Whatever.  But when ... Read more »

The CES Keynote yawn: is it Ballmer or is it Microsoft?

The early returns are filtering in, and our personal first impressions, along with others from around the web, were, shall we say, underwhelming.  Nick Eaton at the Seattle PI, for one, was left wanting: ... Read more »

A Windows Live Holiday wishlist

Next month we’ll begin our 6th year of covering Windows Live news and information.  We’ve seen a lot come and go in the past 5 years (brought home by our recent move to WordPress ... Read more »

The Vail debacle: Why Microsoft still doesn’t get the consumer

Yesterday’s announcement on the Windows Home Server blog about the decision to pull Drive Extender functionality from Vail/Aurora/Breckenridge is just yet another example of how Microsoft, while perhaps doing the right thing in the ... Read more »

Google Cloud Print – where is Live Mesh for Devices?

I recently came across an article on Neowin which mentioned that an upcoming Google product might be coming soon to Google Docs – named Google Cloud Print. While reading this article, it led me ... Read more »

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 ... Read more »

Thoughts on the Live Gallery/Live Writer Plug-in Change

Windows Live Gallery is dead! Ok, technically it’s not, but it looks like it hasn’t long left of this world. Yes, yes, I know, we’re basing this on purely one section of the site ... Read more »

Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 issue fixed

Last week we posted about Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 experiencing calendar display issues soon after the upgrade. David Dennis, Principal Lead Program Manager of Windows Live Hotmail/Calendar, has kindly commented on our blog ... Read more »

Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 upgrade causing calendars and events to disappear?

Earlier this month, one of my Windows Live accounts started to encounter some problems, as none of my calendars and events would like to load in Windows Live Calendar. Not only this, but each ... Read more »