November, 2010

Office Web Apps integration coming to Facebook Messages

A big announcement today over at Facebook, with news of their new Messages functionality, including the news that users of Facebook Messages will be able to view Office documents by opening them in Office Web Apps from within Facebook:…

Games, games, games…

Coming today to Windows Live Messenger 2011 in the US, UK, France, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey: The Messenger Game Tab. Games Tab
The games tab UI will be localized in all of these markets, but …

MSN China partners with Sina.com, resolves Spaces migration issue in China

MSN China and SINA PartnershipWhile Microsoft announced back in September that they have partnered with WordPress.com to migrate all Windows Live Spaces over, those users in mainland China missed out – as WordPress is inaccessible in mainland China due to government censorship. In fact, …

Windows Live Messenger coming to a TV near you

So you think that having Messenger on your PCs and Mobiles is not enough for you? Back in January this year, we reported that Microsoft is negotiating with TV manufacturers about delivering Windows Live services to internet-enabled TVs. Well here’s …

Docs.com now supports Facebook Groups

Previously, when you want to share your documents on Docs.com, you can only share them with individual friends, and if you wanted to share with a group, you had to select the group members one-by-one. Facebook recently updated their

Active links in Messenger 2009 temporarily turned off due to malicious worm

Microsoft made a post on the Inside Windows Live blog today alerting users that there is a malicious worm currently trying to spread itself through IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Wave 3). Here’s  an excerpt from the post:…

Hotmail, Yahoo continue to dominate Gmail (we knew that)

Some new numbers published yesterday by Compete.com may be surprising to some: although popular sentiment is that “everyone uses Gmail”, the numbers don’t bear that out.  Here’s a pie chart of US internet traffic to web-based email clients for September …

The future of Silverlight – revealed?

“Just like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to Silverlight” is how Microsoft is billing a newly announced Silverlight Firestarter event complete with keynote by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie entitled “The Future of Silverlight Starts Now”;

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In case …

KIN Lives! Coming back to Verizon, says Engadget

KINlogoA report tonight from Engadget is apparently confirming the re-emergence of the ill-fated Kin One and Kin Two phones on Verizon, with an altered data plan, but still with Zune Pass functionality:

…we’re hearing that the revised phones will be

Windows Phone 7 supports USB tethering (Updated)

Well, back when Windows Phone 7 was months away from release, Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, confirmed with Paul Thurrott that data tethering will be available but it’ll be up to carriers to decide whether …