January, 2011

Create a flash mob with Windows Live + Windows Phone 7

That’s exactly what Microsoft’s latest commercial is about – a documentary about the making of a recent flash mob in Seattle. In the two-minute video, it featured Microsoft’s most popular consumer brands, including Windows Live, Windows Phone 7, Video Kinect …

Bing Feature Update: New Images Landing Page

Bing Images introduces a fresh new look to its landing page with new ways to browse pictures delivering a more intuitive and visual image search experience.

The landing page assembles the top images in full fidelity so you can get …

Best of Bing 5

Where in the world do you want your desktop to go? Explore sweeping landscapes and dramatic images from around the globe in this Windows 7 theme.

Click to download theme

The theme pack includes 18 wallpapers.

Download Bing’s Best 5

Docs.com gets update with multiple language support and spell checking

Microsoft FUSE Labs just rolled out an update to their Docs.com service, touted a “major backend update” with performance and stability improvements. In addition, this update also introduced support for 30 different languages (dialects) which allows users to …

OneNote Mobile for iPhone now available, what’s next?

OneNote Mobile for iPhone now available, what’s next?Microsoft released its very first official Office app for iPhone today – OneNote Mobile, which is available in the U.S. iTunes app store only and free for a limited time.

OneNote Mobile for iPhone is a note taking and organizing …

Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 compulsory update coming soon

Windows Live EssentialsBack in May 2010, just before the launch of Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4), Microsoft released a small QFE update for Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 which bumped the version number to 14.0.8117.416. The release targeted several bug fixes

Windows Clubhouse to shut down

According to an article appearing over at Anand Khanse’s The Windows Club, The Windows Clubhouse will be shutting down this spring.  The marketing effort which was to feature blog posts by “club members” on Microsoft.com on topics related to Windows …

Zune Marketplace, sign-in down

Some parts of Zune.net, including the Marketplace and (at least here) the ability to sign in to your Zune account from the Zune software are down as of this morning.  A message posted on the Zune support page confirms the …

Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance expands to five markets globally

Search AllianceThe Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance had been granted approval by the EU almost a year ago, and back in August 2010, the Search Alliance announced that all Yahoo! organic searches in US and Canada had been transitioned to be "powered by …

New Golden Globe commercials: Will Windows Phone get the part?

This weekend marks the Golden Globe awards, film and television awards presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and marking the beginning of the entertainment awards “season”.  Bing and Windows Phone are getting in the act, and will show …