Silverlight to power apps on the new Xbox 360 dashboard update

Microsoft announced its new Xbox 360 dashboard update during E3 2011, and announced nearly 40 TV and entertainment partners worldwide a few days ago which will be featured in the next Xbox LIVE update. ... Read more »

Xbox LIVE to be the entertainment service for Windows 8, says Microsoft

If you thought the news for Xbox LIVE at E3 earlier this week wasn’t enough, then you’ll probably be excited to hear that Microsoft’s entertainment strategy doesn’t stop with the Xbox 360 or the ... Read more »

MIX 2011 Liveblog Day 2: Windows Phone

Here we go again, get ready for day 2 of the Mix keynote liveblog!: <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=1cf907bcb1">MIX11 Keynote 2 Group Liveblog</a>

Silverlight FireStarter Event: Announcing Silverlight 5

Yesterday at the Silverlight FireStarter Event Scott Guthrie announced Silverlight 5. Not as in “It’s here now, go get it!”, but announced as in telling that a Silverlight 5 beta will be available in ... Read more »

The future of Silverlight – revealed?

“Just like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to Silverlight” is how Microsoft is billing a newly announced Silverlight Firestarter event complete with keynote by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie entitled “The Future ... Read more »

Microsoft Live Labs projects lives on – Seadragon Ajax and Silverlight PivotViewer

While we know that Microsoft Live Labs was shuttered almost a month ago – and the team was “transitioned” into Bing, it appears that not all the incubation projects went under Bing’s control (and ... Read more »

MSN Launches Interactive Guide to the Battle of Britain

Today MSN launched the Interactive Guide to the Battle of Britain. The application was build by Microsoft-partner Shoothill and has 3 major components: 1. Photo and Document Archive A DeepZoom Composition with historic documents ... Read more »

Silverlight for Symbian RTM

Silverlight for Symbian is now generally available. This brings the Silverlight experience to the, according to the team’s blog post, 20+ million users of Nokia S60 5th edition Nokia 5800 XPressMusic and Nokia N97 ... Read more »

Adding Polylines and Polygons in Bing Maps Apps

Currently the Bing Maps App SDK .chm documentation covers how to add Pushpins on the map, but not polylines and polygons.  When creating your entities, rather than passing in a PointPrimitive instance to the ... Read more »

Share your Bing Search results through Messenger

Want to talk to a friend about your search results, for example something you found about the World Cup? It’s possible now. Bing has gained yet another way to share search results and that’s ... Read more »