September, 2010

Bing Social now with recommendations!

Twitter follow recommendations that is. The team calls this People Recommendation:

With Twitter growing to more than 145 million accounts, finding interesting people to follow can be difficult. People Recommendation on Bing Social helps you discover interesting and relevant

Australian Bing TV ads

Over at meraTechPort, our friend Vasudev put together a nice collection of the latest Bing TV ads for the Australian market, all sporting the tagline “Look less, find more”
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Nice job Vasudev!  You can check out all 5 YouTube …

Windows Live Calendar to get weather updates, full-session SSL and a name change?

Windows Live CalendarWindows Live Calendar was updated to Wave 4 back in June 2010, but it left many disappointed as the only updates it received since Wave 3 was the addition of a mobile counterpart. While the Calendar backend was …

Zune to expand to international markets: details announced

Microsoft today announced “the further international expansion of Zune”, expanding the Zune software and variations on Zune Marketplace and Zune pass to a number of new markets:

The fall 2010 international expansion of the Zune music and video service

IE9: That thing about fonts

Looks like lots of you are trying out IE9, we’ve had over 2,500 visits from the new beta in the past 2 days, and looking forward to that number growing.  We’ve been fairly impressed with the speed changes, and the …

Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – RTM Refresh

Now the Windows Phone 7 SDK went RTM, the Windows Phone Training Kit for developers also got updated to the RTM version of the tools.

Due to the size of the Training Kit, and to make it easier for you …

More new stuff: Congrats Channel 9!

Channel 9 is the developer focused video/forum/news site on MSDN that allows us to peek behind the curtains at the people behind the software at Microsoft.  Today they’ve unleashed a totally rebuilt website, built on ASP.Net MVC with a clean …

Bing, Windows Phone 7 news

In a race to get a post up before the battery dies/wifi craps out/the plane boards, we’ll make this one quick, even though the announcements are significant.

First, some Bing news: Bing has (finally) added public transportation information to Bing

IE9 annoyances

 

Been asking a few question from our Twitter account about IE9, as with one dead laptop battery, spotty hotel internet (we’re at Starbucks now),  and holding some great conversations with Softies and others on IE, Windows Phone 7, San …

IE9 and Bing

The Bing Team is very excited about the new capabilities in IE9 and how they can be used to provide a very rich search experience. The concepts they’ve shown at the launch event will be made available in preview …