The Winter Olympics, this year held in Vancouver, B.C., are just a few days away, and promise to be the most internet friendly Olympics, so far (especially if you’re in the US, we’re checking on the non-US story).  NBC Universal will again carry Silverlight-driven live coverage of many of the events...

WMPowerUser has spotted a job posting at Microsoft Careers (which is sporting a new redesign of its own, and a new name, the “ Microsoft Talent Network ”), offering up a job in India for an SDE, and some interesting info for the rest of us. The posting reveals that Microsoft is planning to target Nokia...

Chris Pendleton has been a busy guy today, posting on Destination Maps and Local Events , and to top it off his latest post announces that the Bing Maps Silverlight site is now out of beta : First off, if you go to the Bing Maps AJAX site and have Silverlight installed chances are you will be redirected...

If you still have content on Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta , now is the time to get it off. You can migrate your content to Azure * now and host it there, just like we do with our videos . To help you migrate, the Silverlight Streaming home page now gives you instructions on how to do this...

As you may have noticed, we’ve been working hard on getting LiveSide.net ready for the year to come, including moving to a new web host, working on the themes, adding Disqus comments, and hopefully generally cleaning up our act.  Last summer we were thrown for a bit of a loop when MSN Soapbox closed...

Surely you know about the United Nations 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15) , which is taking place right now. But did you know that Microsoft has sent a delegation of issue and technology experts to support COP15? That group is participating in a series of briefings, events and partnerships to showcase...

Also announced yesterday is the Bing Bar . Another search/tool bar? Yes and no, it replaces the MSN Toolbar Beta . If you go to the MSN toolbar URL you get the following page: I’ve set it to en-ca here, now there’s a few different ones, in the UK you get They have to wait? :O In the US it...