March, 2010

More from Bing Maps: new apps, new imagery

where20 Sunshine told you about some of the announcements coming from Bing Maps earlier today, but the news didn’t stop there.  Timing the announcements to come at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Bing Maps today also announced three new …

Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7

Have you seen the Windows Phone 7 Series demo apps during the MIX10 keynote? Want to see them again? The Windows Phone Developer blog has a post up with videos of all the demos shown during the keynote:…

Bing Maps March updates

Bing Maps got some updates in March, with promises of more to come. Here are the changes already implemented:

Walking Directions – Walking Directions allows you to calculate directions between two points in a way that would allow you to …

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 to get Office Web Apps integration

Last time we told you that the final version of Office Web Apps will be released along with Windows Live Wave 4, we always knew that the two will be integrated tightly. Indeed, not only Office Web Apps is

Translator Widget v2

We just updated our Microsoft Translator widget to version 2, complete with the “Collaborative Translations”, which allows you to choose alternate translations and make suggestions.  We purposely choose to use the translator widget, instead of working with the more flexible …

Some new concepts in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4

Many of you probably had the chance to play with the recently leaked M2 build of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4. I’m sure you’ve seen many screenshots of the build around the internet already, so we won’t do that …

Two more Windows Live services to be discontinued in Wave 4: Call and Toolbar

Last year we told you Microsoft will be adding two new Windows Live services to its family: Devices and Docs. Well, although there hasn’t been any official words on this, it appears that Microsoft will also be discontinuing two …

Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP)

LiveSino.net is at it again, this time capturing an info panel purportedly from the Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials Beta download page, revealing that the latest version of Windows Live Essentials will indeed require at least Windows Vista SP2 …

Windows Phone Developer Documentation

WindowsPhone7 Have you been developing Windows Phone 7 apps/games yet? Or don’t you know where to start? Charlie Kindel wrote up a nice summary post to help you out.

Your first stop should be MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network for those of

New location browser on Bing Search

Bing Search just keeps on evolving. Yesterday we told you about the Spring Updates and today we add one more update. Bing now has a new location browser for mapping out places in Bing Search reference results. Chris Pendleton gives