How to: get Bing's daily photo as a Windows 7 wallpaper
No matter what you think of Bing as a search engine, you have to admit that the daily homepage photos are pretty cool. They range from amazing nature photos to holiday sensitive events. Those images now have a new use, being wallpapers for your Windows 7 PC. One of Windows... Read on »
TwitCam, live video streaming for Twitter
There have always been a ton of options for people who want to web cam stream live, however none of those options where ever very easy to use or high quality. Today a new service was launched with the hope of matching twitter in ease of use. Twitcam is a... Read on »
Bing's love affair with Twitter continues with Bingtweets
Bing is having an all out love affair with Twitter, just a few weeks ago Bing started indexing tweets from from "prolific" bloggers and other twits. Now today, Bing is taking it a step farther with the launch of www.bingtweets.com . A joint venture between Microsoft and Federated media, bing... Read on »
Sobees, 1st WPF, Silverlight & Azure powered Twitter client
What happens when you mash up Twitter, Silverlight 3.0, WPF and the Windows Azure platform? One sweet Twitter client that's what. Sobees... Read on »
Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0
Today Microsoft launched its latest effort to "Light up the web", Silverlight 3 which is now available for download. Silverlight has come... Read on »
Interview with the Zune source
In May, after months of anticipation and rumors, Microsoft finally confirmed the existence of the Zune HD. The official confirmation was more or less a "let's get this out of the way for E3" move. Microsoft wanted to be sure the Xbox 360 and its Natal controller would be the... Read on »
Exclusive: Microsoft's new Anti-Virus, 'Morro', revealed
Article updated, please see latest updates below Ever since Microsoft discontinued its "OneCare" Anti-Virus suite, gossip has been flying that Microsoft would be releasing a free Anti-Virus\Anti-Spyware tool codenamed "Morro". The software product, codenamed "Morro" after a beach in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is already being tested by Microsoft employees and... Read on »
Neowin Live From E3 2009 Day 1 (Updated) with video
The first day of E3 has come and gone.... and what a day it was! Demos, crazy booths and more demos, the show floor was a sight to behold. As soon we hit the ground at E3, we made a beeline to the Xbox 360 booth. Talk about over the... Read on »
Microsoft confirms Zune HD coming this fall
It looks like the Zune HD just could not wait any longer to make its debut. Remember a few months ago we reported exclusive information about Microsoft's upcoming Zune device labeled as the "Zune HD"? Well today those "rumors" that everyone liked to call, have been confirmed by Microsoft. We've... Read on »
Lessons learned from installing Windows 7, over 16 times
When the first Windows 7 beta (build 6801) was announced at PDC in late 2008, everyone was excited, myself included. Within a few days after release I was happily running my very first version of Windows 7. Right around new years day, Microsoft released the first public beta (build 7000)... Read on »
Windows 7, how low can it go?
It is well known that Windows 7 is a huge step up from Vista as well as XP. It allows users with computers that could barely run Vista to run 7 much faster and more efficiently. It is relatively safe to say, that Windows 7 will be the first version... Read on »
Netflix's latest conquest, Windows Media Center
Netflix is on a mission to takeover the world of movie streaming, 1st they invaded the computer with Silverlight powered streaming. Then they cut an exclusive deal with Microsoft to bring streaming to the Xbox 360. Now they are bringing their world domination plans full circle. In a post on... Read on »
Screenshots: Live Search 'Kumo Lite' refresh
If you use Live search, you are no doubt well used to the daily background changes that the search engine goes through. Today, a little more than the background changed. Without so much as a press release or a blog post, Microsoft unlocked a "Kumo Lite" UI refresh for selected... Read on »
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