August, 2010

Exchange ActiveSync, coming on Monday August 30: our recap

One of the most hotly anticipated features of Windows Live Wave 4, judging by the interest here and elsewhere, is Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail.  The long promised feature first surfaced here thanks to an alert LiveSide reader back in June, …

Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates

Back in April, Microsoft FUSE Labs released Docs.com, a service which ties in Facebook with Office Web Apps to let you share documents with your friends on the social network. It seems like the guys over at FUSE

A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think?

This morning Mary Jo Foley caught Microsoft’s Russian subsidiary’s website showing off what looks like our first glimpse at the new IE9 UI:

ie9-ui

The single image (since taken down, of course) shows a simplified look, with a combined search/address …

Bing: Portland, music and food

Bing sure loves Portland! Just released is a new Bing Map App called the Bing Food Cart Finder, which helps you find over 250 food carts in the area! You can filter food vendors by recommended picks from Portland …

Office Web Apps updated: Print from Word Web App; Excel Charts and AutoFill; more

Windows Live Essentials isn’t the only suite to be updated recently, a blog post on the Office Web Apps blog (and featured on Inside Windows Live) points out a number of new features for Office Web Apps.  Like Essentials, …

Yahoo! organic search in US, Canada now “Powered by Bing”

The Microsoft-Yahoo! search alliance continues to move forward on schedule, and today Microsoft Senior Vice President Satya Nadella announced “a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo!”, as all (organic, meaning non-paid) searches on Yahoo!, in the US and Canada, in …

Windows Live Messenger 2011 Beta Refresh – little things do matter

Windows Live MessengerWindows Live Messenger 2011 was released just over a week ago, and along with the release Microsoft turned on the long-awaited feature – Facebook chat integration. While we reported some of the major updates to the beta refresh release, …

Final release of Windows Phone Developer Tools on September 16

In our article about Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training we already mentioned that there won’t be any localized training provided until the final release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. At that time we didn’t have a release date …

Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail – “just a few more days” away?

If you were lucky (or if you were reading LiveSide), and got your name into Exchange ActiveSync early, you’re probably enjoying the benefits of it now.  Even if you didn’t get in on that early “wave”, some of …

Hey Leo, we *like* social media! – LiveSide housekeeping update

radiologo-12Leo Laporte is apparently swearing off everything but his blog and his weekly podcast (TwiT – This week in Tech, a fun listen, btw), but we’re having fun with our various side projects, and wanted to update you …