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Microsoft Kills Windows Live Mesh

14th of December 2012 01:16 GMT

Windows Live Mesh, Microsoft’s file synchronization and remote desktop application, will be retired on February 13, 2013, so all users are now recommended to make the move to SkyDrive. The decision to retire this new service was pretty simple, Microsoft said, as SkyDrive is now integrated into devices and apps...

Microsoft Helps Spammers Find Jobs Because Hotmail Blocks 97% of Spam

6th of November 2012 03:43 GMT

Hotmail is such an effective spam blocking email service (or at least that’s what Microsoft claims) that the Redmond-based technology company has decided to hold a special event just for spammers. The idea is brilliantly simple: since Hotmail is pretty effective when it comes to blocking spam messaging landing...

As Yahoo! Bing Network Debuts, Microsoft adCenter Becomes Bing Ads

10th of September 2012 09:08 GMT

Microsoft and Yahoo! have been long working together in delivering search results to their users, and their collaboration has now been brought a step further. The search advertising marketplace made up of Yahoo! Search and Bing has now a name of its own, the Yahoo! Bing Network, with content from partner sites incl...

Bing Adds Facebook Photos Search

31st of August 2012 08:05 GMT

Google may be the only one catching flack for integrating "social" features into search, but everyone seems to agree that it's the way forward. In fact, Bing is arguably in a better position to service the social niche thanks to its partnership with Facebook. Evidence of that partnership is the latest "social" ...

Bing Partners with Quora for Expert Info in Search Results

23rd of August 2012 05:24 GMT

Quora has been building steam for quite a while now. The trick was to balance growth with the quality of the content. The site only grew as fast as it could and still maintain its voice and relative quality of the answers. But it's now reaching a point where it needs to reach further. Recently, Quora released "...