Bing out of beta in Germany, but what about those numbers?

Finally, after two years as a beta product, Bing has officially launched in Germany, according to a press release ( Bing German to English translation) issued by Microsoft Germany last Friday, January 27th. The ... Read more »

Mango is here (for developers)

Yesterday it was Angry Birds available a day early (well, after being months late), and today, developers enrolled via the Windows Phone App Hub (after paying $99) or DreamSpark members (free for students) can ... Read more »

Bing tests Amazon Product Reviews, Yahoo! Answers in search results

One nice thing about Bing, you can learn a lot about what’s (potentially) coming next as features are tested in various regions and markets around the world.  We’ve seen early testing as far back ... Read more »

Coming soon to Australia: new look for NineMSN, Bing to drop beta tag?

A report in The Australian’s business section is reporting that NineMSN, the joint effort by MSN and Australia’s Nine Network, will soon be sporting a new look.  The cleaner look, much like MSN.com in ... Read more »

Bing dropping Beta tags?

LiveSide users, coming from all around the world, are quick to point out to us their pain when Microsoft and especially Bing features are released for US only markets, so hopefully here’s some encouraging ... Read more »

Rumors are flying! WLE 2011 release (RC?, Final?) Sept. 30?

We know that at some point a new version of Windows Live Essentials is coming.  For one thing, it’s in beta, and fortunately for us Windows Live applies the beta tag a bit more ... Read more »

TechCrunch interviews IE9 GM Dean Hachamovitch–Neowin tells all

We’re about to head out for the IE9 Beta launch, but just to whet your appetite TechCrunch has posted a short interview with Dean Hachamovitch, where he talks about some of the new features ... Read more »

IE9 Beta launch today: Tune in!

Today is the day! Today IE9 Beta will be launched, and there are two ways for you to tune in: 1. Tune in to the web cast at 10:30 am PST to learn more ... Read more »

IE9 Beta launch: are you excited?

On Wednesday (11am PDT GMT-7)we’ll be in San Francisco for “Beauty of the Web”, the beta launch of Internet Explorer 9.  IE9 promises to bring modern standards compliant browsing to a Microsoft browser for ... Read more »

Windows Live Essentials Beta Refresh day one recap

What a fun day!  This morning at about 7:30 am Pacific Daylight Time, ace LiveSide contributor damaster found that the download link he had been tipped to earlier was now working, and he worked ... Read more »