On October 1, 2010, the Bing bot will not be in beta anymore. On this date, it is going to replace the current MSN Bot completely.
Bing has made an agreement with Opera: Bing is going to be one of the predefined search engines. This has already been integrated in the recently released Beta version.
You are an avid user of Bing and love its daily background images? Microsoft has published a new screensaver with a collection of these images.
www.live.com now contains what it should: Your Windows Live Home. This home page will become your entry point for Hotmail as well, replacing Hotmail Today. For version 2010, a major restructuring of this page is expected.
A new homepage for www.live.com is approaching further: The notification that visitors won’t be able to access Bing from this URL soon has been made much clearer.
Microsoft’s free Bing App for iPhone can search the Web, news, photos and maps. But in one central feature, it continuously crashes: When you use its Voice control. However, the Bing for Mobile team is working on an update.
As announced last week, Microsoft has released the Bing App for iPhone. Since last night, it can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.
Microsoft is currently working on an iPhone App for Windows Live Messenger, as well as for Bing.
Yahoo! and Microsoft finally settled an agreement on co-operating with Search and Advertising services, originally announced in July. The co-operation “can occur in early 2010,” read a consequent statement.
