2009

Zune HD to include Xbox Live games?

zunehdamazon Yesterday’s Microsoft Press Conference at E3 included a lot of news on Xbox, including some news about Zune video streaming, but did Amazon.com just make a little announcement of their own?  In a listing for the upcoming Zune HD, …

Microsoft’s Summer Of Live

OK so the official start of summer isn’t for a few weeks, but Microsoft is facing its most important period in perhaps its entire 30 year history, as initiatives in all its important consumer and online services come together.  How …

Join the Bing community

Just been clicking around in Bing, and came across a nice fresh Bing Community site, all done up in Community Server.

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The site contains a What’s New page, links to the individual search blogs (Search, Webmaster, Developer, Travel, and …

Bing goes live in multiple markets

Getting reports from all over that www.bing.com is live:

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The US is getting the Hubble telescope image that is on live.com, but for at least some other countries (we didn’t check them all), they’re getting our old friend the snow …

Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT

bingLogo_lgIf you want to watch instead of read about Bing, then join the Bing Webcast at June 1st.

Here’s how to join in:

1) Set your alarm clocks for 10AM Pacific Daylight Time, Monday, June 1

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Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out

We haven’t been able to get our hands on Bing until today,  and we’ll have more as we dig deeper into it, but we wanted to give you some quick first impressions.  There’s lots of promotion for “the decision engine” …

Why Windows Live Messenger Is Shut Off For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US

Last week we told you about Microsoft Shutting Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US (Error 810003c1). We can tell you a little bit more about the “why” today.

Let’s take a look …

Some quick takes on Bing

Well the story we’ve been following for the past year, the rebranding of Live Search, reached a big milestone today with the announcement (finally) of the new name, Bing.  While the name itself has yet to grow on us, we …

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

BingLogo Steve Ballmer just announced Microsoft’s newest search offering on the D7 stage. He introduced it by showing a video, a Star Trek parody called “A bold search for a new name.” The video runs over Microsoft’s chronic re-naming of its …

Announcing The Messenger Web Toolkit Interactive SDK!

We already told you about the Live Messenger Web Toolkit and accompanying site http://messenger.mslivelabs.com/.

Also on this site is the Interactive SDK: 
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This Interactive SDK makes starting out with the Messenger Web Toolkit even easier for developers. To get …