http://www.digwin.com/cat/Windows Live/hot Microsoft Top news, Buzz & Breaking Stories by communities en http://www.digwin.com/get-inside-bings-head-see-the-features-youve-only-heard-about Great news. All the new features we about last week are live for 100% of our users. Many of you may have seen them over the past few days as the ramp progressed, but now everyone can take full advantage of the great work the team has done in this fall wave for Bing. I wanted to point that out because recently, to my complete surprise, I was told http://www.digwin.com/bing-maps-china-expands-reach The Bing Maps China site just released some huge updates to their site. Following the release to Bing Maps (Bing Maps Gets An Overhaul…And, Some New Features) and Bing Maps UK (Released: Bing Maps UK), the Bing Maps China site has updated much of their data, added tons of new data and added a few new features. Check out the list: Yellow Page http://www.digwin.com/european-environment-agencys-use-of-bing-maps-for-eye-on-earth European Environment AgencyLast year, I blogged about The European Environmental Agencys partnership with Microsoft which resulted in a (then) Virtual Earth web site that monitors the bath water around Europe, (see: Eye on Earth Water Watch (and Virtual Earth) project is back and now using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control , a new UI and addition http://www.digwin.com/making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice With just 38 days left until Christmas, Im sure Im one of many who is frantically making shopping lists, planning trips to the mall, and researching the hottest toys and deals for the season. (Please visit the site to view this media) continues to welcome new retailers to make it easier for all of us to get our shopping done, including Macys, and http://www.digwin.com/changes-to-bing-ui-navigation-to-webmaster-center Did you hear the news? Bing was recently upgraded with another set of exciting end-user features. Instead of reciting the long list of changes here, I'll just point you to the blog post in the Bing Search blog titled, " Bing's Next Chapter Begins Today ." The Bing engineering team has been focused on improving the already cool features that have http://www.digwin.com/bing-maps-goes-hollywood-at-pdc The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) kicks off tomorrow and Bing Maps will have some fun, yet informative events going on. First off, if you’re at PDC you should follow the @BingMaps handle on Twitter for up to the minute information about what’s going on at the show. Plus, Bing Maps is running a Twitter contest throughout PDC. http://www.digwin.com/phishing-a-look-inside Phishing what it is, and how it relates to your webmail credentials Recently, the webmail industry experienced what was believed to be a phishing incident where several thousands of credentials from Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts were exposed For those who are wondering exactly what phishing is, and how it relates to general spam: is a http://www.digwin.com/msn-and-bing-getting-up-close-and-personal-with-new-moon-and-twilight Holy Twilight-mania! I attempted to look for information on Twilight and there are, well, hundreds if not thousands of Twilight sites out there, I found myself buried in a torrent of Twilight hysteria. I mean, I have heard about this phe-nom but did not truly, culturally, philosophically understand it until today. So in the midst of my Twilight http://www.digwin.com/free-tshirt-friday-and-stefanagain The sun is out in the PNW and you know what that means? No? Ok, I dont either. But is it Friday, which means it is time for another Fridays With Stefan and Free T-Shirt Friday. Find the best related query to this week's theme and send it to us on twitter at @bing and include the hash-tag #FTF. Last weeks winners of #FTF and the free copy of W http://www.digwin.com/vampires-bing-maps-silverlight-so-hot-right-now With the impending release of the much anticipated teen vampire romance, , a blood-sucking fun application for you to also take a virtual tour not just for location context, but also because of the native integration with media elements like video and audio. In fact, the Bing Maps Silverlight control interactive SDK has samples on how to overlay http://www.digwin.com/look-kids-big-benhouse-of-parliamentand-bing-in-the-uk When you search for Football, what kind of answers do you expect to find. Well, I guess it depends on where you are doing the asking, if you are in the UK you probably dont want to see NFL schedules. You probably mean what we in the US call soccer. Well today, millions of searchers in the UK can rest assured that Bing knows what they are talking http://www.digwin.com/released-bing-maps-uk If youre in the UK and go to Bing Maps via you will get redirected to Multimap.comor, at least you wouldve until now. Going to Bing Maps will take you to the new Bing Maps experience in the UK. Weve introduced a slough a features just for the UK market (and some shared with the US market). Also, for those who still want the Multimap.com experience http://www.digwin.com/youtube-and-18-more-new-partners-make-it-easy-to-share-with-friends-on-windows-live Beginning today, Windows Live is rolling out 19 new web activity partnerships with leading global and regional web companies including . This means that if you choose to add, for example, the YouTube web activity to your profile on Windows Live, then whenever you post a video or mark your video favorites on YouTube, the people in your Windows Live http://www.digwin.com/you-know-my-methods-watson Dr. Watson didn't have access to Photosynth as a forensic tool in his day, but the makers of the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie (opens Christmas Day) certainly do. They've created a fascinating multi-episode game to promote the movie. It features a new Photosynth every week until the movie opens. Each of them were shot on set, and you need to ex http://www.digwin.com/in-his-own-words-stephen-wolfram-on-computational-knowledge You have (hopefully) read our on our exciting collaboration between Bing and Wolfram|Alpha to bring some of the amazing computational knowledge of Wolfram|Alpha into the Bing experience. We had the privilege of sitting down and talking with none other than Stephen Wolfram himself a few weeks back to get his take on this exciting challenge of making http://www.digwin.com/web-cast-building-locationbased-applications-with-bing-maps-for-navteqs-lbs-challenge ? You should probably tune into my session to get the skinny on how the heck youre going to do that. See my blog post, Bing Maps Globally Sponsors NAVTEQs 2010 LBS Challenge . Register for my web cast on the NAVTEQs Network for Developers Live Meeting site scheduled for next Tuesday, November 17 @ 9AM PST  write that down. Ill get into the d http://www.digwin.com/bings-next-chapter-begins-today When Bing launched back in June, our aim was to bring innovation to search in three important areas: The product that we delivered was centered on these principles and your responses to it have made us smile and cringe at different times as people express delight with some features and dismay at others. Were also happy to see that so many of you http://www.digwin.com/bringing-the-best-of-web-video-to-you-at-bing-videos Turn off the lights (literally), share with your friends and kick backyou are about to see the latest Bing videos experience. Starting today and rolling out over the next few days will provide a new unified online video destination that delivers a comprehensive, organized, and high-quality video experience. This change will combine the powerful http://www.digwin.com/how-many-calories-in-a-burger-whats-22222-bing-and-wolframalpha-have-the-answers One of the things weve tried to do with Bing is to bring customers the information they are looking for, presented in a useful way. If we can adequately infer a users intent, we can bring them a much more compelling experience than an endless list of links. We can bring them real knowledge and get them closer to the answer they were looking for or http://www.digwin.com/bing-maps-imagery-release-november-2009 A bit of an early surprise for my friends who are at with me. In this special drop of imagery for we focus on, guess whereEurope! And, mostly Eastern Europe. Yesterday, while at Tech Ed Europe, I met with journalists from Norway, UK, Czech Republic, Spain, Croatia, Russia and Austria and most of them asked when well have better imagery /