Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Bing’

iPhone App for Windows Live Messenger in Development

Messenger December 8th, 2009

Microsoft is currently working on an iPhone App for Windows Live Messenger, as well as for Bing.

Microsoft and Yahoo! Finally Settle a Contract

Find, Microsoft December 6th, 2009

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.

Preview of new MSN homepage, getting socialized

Microsoft November 4th, 2009

Today Microsoft unvealed its new format for the MSN.com homepage in a public preview.
What are the most interesting changes?

History and Future of Live Search and Bing

Windows Live October 31st, 2009

When you visit www.live.com these days, you get a notification banner within the Bing homepage: “Your access to the Bing homepage from live.com will stop soon.” What will we see at www.live.com in the future?

The days are numbered for Messenger 2008

Messenger September 20th, 2009

In this post:

End of Life reached
What people think
Technical reasons
Get Messenger 2009
In case of problems

End of Life reached

Starting September 15, 2009, users are required to have the latest version of Messenger installed on their computer in order to sign in and continue using the Messenger service. To download the latest version of Messenger, go to the [...]

Windows Live and You: “Windows Live services help me keep in touch” (Lance Manasse)

Windows Live and You August 12th, 2009

After a longer break, the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You” is finally back. Today I will be talking with Lance Manasse, who lives in the United Kingdom and is also known by his nickname “Salem”.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved [...]

Summer in the city

Stuff June 18th, 2009

These days, with increasing temperatures, we had some severe thunderstorms already. Rain, clouds and sunshine are all facets of the upcoming summer, a time of less work, more free time, enjoyment, … fun. The last days and weeks, we started preparing for this year’s summer vacations, and Windows played a quite big [...]

Windows Live and You: “Development of Messenger has been phenomenal” (Sean Bradford, Neowin)

Windows Live and You June 5th, 2009

Ever wanted to meet an unofficial Microsoft Evangelist? Sean Bradford is one of them, and he has some interesting points on Messenger and the other Windows Live products.
mynetx: Wonderful that you take some minutes to talk with me about Windows Live and You.
Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or [...]

Windows Live promotes Bing

Find June 4th, 2009

If you had a look at the Windows Live Wave 3 headers recently, you might have noticed that Microsoft’s new decision engine Bing is promoted there. Looks like this:

Furthermore, Bing has a prominent place on microsoft.com. We see that the search box is Bingified, and the big promotion area tells us about Bing as [...]

Live Search gets Bing – and what about Live.com?

Find June 1st, 2009

Bing is live. The team says:
You probably didn’t wake up today expecting an entirely new search experience. But – Bing! – here it is.

Why a new engine? Why just now?
The way the world searches is changing. You want more than just information. You want knowledge that leads to action. [...]