From the Virtual Earth (Mappoint) blog:
…Please be advised that we will release a new version of the Virtual Earth Map Control on Tuesday, November 7th 2006.…Due to an upcoming marketing campaign surrounding this release we cannot elaborate on the exciting new features that will be in
Things are definitely heating up in Windows Live land, with new releases coming at a regular clip (and more to come, soon), and the marketing effort for the just released services coming on strong, too. Full page ads are appearing in the US for Live Search, with …
Just like we said it would when we posted last week, Windows Live Messenger 8.1 has gone into public beta, and available for download at ideas.live.com. According to the ideas page, the new version offers:
…• Redesigned, smarter contact cards give you more data about and easier
Microsoft today announced, to a relatively large amount of fanfare, the release of Office Live on November 15th. The press release has all the facts, with Mary-Jo Foley providing some good analysis. The highlights are:
News is filtering out that Steve Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering, is orchestrating another reorg at MSN and Windows Live. Focusing on consistency and improving products across the board (over incubation projects), the reorg aims to cut out middle management, and will divide Windows/Windows …
Over at the Soapbox blog they've posted a few photos of the new mobile Soapbox. With YouTube already having a mobile feature, this is yet more catchup from the Microsoft guys. Do many people actually upload videos from their mobile phones that aren't of people happy slapping? Let us …
According to attendees of Windows Live Sessions (FR), Windows Live Messenger 8.1 will be entering public beta on ideas.live.com early next week, most likely Monday or Tuesday depending on your timezone.
For those who haven't been following the beta, the main changes currently included are:
Microsoft released earnings yesterday in a rise of 11 percent in revenue and operating income. What's interesting, and both Todd Bishop and Mary Jo Foley point out, is that buried in the 10Q is the fact that online services profit fell because of a 40% increase in headcount, …
“Microsoft Office Live…is going LIVE!”, according to an email newsletter sent to beta testers, with the release expected as early as next week. The website management offering (not, we repeat, an online version of Microsoft Office) provides domain name and email account personalization, web site traffic stats, online workspace, and a number of …
