Today Microsoft is making Microsoft Security Essentials available in 17 additional markets: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates.

This brings the total number …

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 …

Some good Bing news today, on three fronts.  First, some new numbers from comScore (no press release yet, so far just numbers shared from Silicon Alley Insider) show continued incremental growth for Bing (and Google), and continued decline from …

Following in the footsteps of Bing’s Home Sweet Homepage photo contest, Photosynth now also has a contest..ehmm scuse me, challenge: "Holiday Lights". It was announced on the team’s blog as follows:

During the week of December 21st to

Just a little housekeeping on our ongoing Live Labs Pivot project, the MS Org Pivot, which we wrote about earlier.  We originally posted our Pivot attempt on an unused personal domain, but we’ve moved it now to a new …

Now that’s moving fast.  Microsoft just unveiled Streetside  a couple of weeks ago and already developers can start to use images from Streetside and enhanced bird’s eye.

Chris Pendleton has a blog post up detailing how to use the new …

Our friends at Neowin.net have posted some screenshots they’ve obtained of two works-in-progress Windows Live products, Messenger and Writer.  We won’t join in the DMCA games here, but the screenshots appear to be real, and show Messenger with tabs (finally), …

Did you try to upload your video to YouTube through Windows Live Movie Maker only to see it fail? It wasn’t just you! Turns out it was a change made on YouTube.com that caused this (authentication) failure.

This issue was …

Well really we expect to hear at least SOMETHING (please?) about Windows Live and Wave 4 at CES in January (only a few weeks away!), but the real season of Wave 4 seems to be set to begin in “the …

Today on the MSN blog, MSN Local Edition Director Cyrus Krohn announced two new partnerships to bring more local video to US cities on the new look MSN.com.  Slated to start in January, the partnerships, with Hearst Television and NBC …