June, 2009

Messenger 10 Years – Share Your Favorite Personal Windows Live Messenger Story With The World!

WLMessenger_5F00_0173725A[1] It has been almost 10 years since Messenger was launched. Windows Live Messenger was still called MSN Messenger back then on July 22nd 1999. Since then Windows Live Messenger has grown quite a bit. It now has more than 330 …

Zune Services And Xbox Live Maintenance On June 16

On June 16 the Zune Services will be down for maintenance. So no Zune Social, Zune.net forums or Zune Marketplace at that time. At the same time Xbox Live will be off for maintenance too. This means that Xbox …

SMS For Windows Live

MobileTextIf you live in the US or the UK then you can SMS to see and update your information on Windows Live. No need for a mobile browser or data plan! The SMS feature was announced in November already but …

Bing shows early promise (but is blocked, again, in China)

It hasn’t even been two weeks since Bing was launched, but a number of services are reporting numbers that seem to show an uptick in interest in the rebranded search product from Microsoft.

Compete.com, in a blog post today, …

Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Wow, did they read our comments? More integration of the translator into Bing? You got it! Starting today you can translate a word or phrase directly on Bing.

How does this work? Say you want to know …

Coming Soon: Microsoft’s Free Anti-virus Software

Back in November Microsoft announced that they will offer free anti virus software, codenamed “Morro”, to replace Windows Live OneCare. As you know Windows Live OneCare will be discontinued. Subscriptions will stop being sold via retail channels from 30 …

Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing….

binglogo_5F00_thumb_5F00_01EE3C3B[1] Yes, more Bing. We didn’t want to keep this info from you.

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Did Bing just Leapfrog Yahoo Search? Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s new decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number …

WL Movie Maker: No upgrade (but you have to update anyway)

No, this doesn’t make any sense (does it?).  Yesterday we told you about a nice little blog post updating the status of Windows Live Movie Maker, which is expected to be released later this year.  So today what pops up …

Bing Maps Imagery Release – May 2009 (Introducing Bing Maps World Tour)

This month’s release contains 248,000+ sq. kilometers of new imagery. But not just that. You won’t get a ginormous list of locations but an experience, an experience in the form of the Bing Maps World Tour.
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The Bing Maps …

TBot Alpha Testing II Started

We reported a few days back about Tbot getting its own Run time Environment. In that article it’s also mentioned that an Alpha test period would start soon. Well, that soon has come:

We’re ready to start the