Bing Blogs - 156

Please consider your online presence! Which means those pictures of you doing a wet t-shirt contest should be removed on Facebook. I have a friend who has a job interview this week and she just emailed me to remove a ton of pictures I have of her up on Flickr, a social site where people look for you, too.  While you may have went and made them all private, Bing and other search engines still have cached images of those photos.  I had...
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Starting today in New York City, REDU will be teaming with renowned designer and fashion pioneer Jeff Staple to raise awareness and inspire dialogue around education reform with HOMEROOM. A fundraising art exhibition, HOMEROOM provides a forum for people to join with the creative community to discuss ways to fix the challenges facing the American public education system today. The event kicks off with an opening party tonight, November 9th at 6...
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Windows Phone 7 is now available in the US. Our congratulations go out to the team for delivering an elegant and intuitive device. Not surprisingly, we’re excited by what the team has done with Bing on Windows Phone 7. Here are a series of screen grabs that give you a sense of Bing on Windows Phone 7. First, the team delivered amazing fidelity with the Bing Homepage. Get your daily dose of Bing beauty on-the-go. With some common tasks like...
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In the past, we’ve held Bing photo contests to showcase the talent of our Bing enthusiasts on the Bing homepage. Earlier this month, we teamed with Windows Live to help celebrate how Windows Live Essentials connects the PC to the cloud. The contest asked participants to submit photos of clouds which would be featured on the Bing homepage and featured in a Windows Theme Pack.     We’re pleased to announce that Somana Konganda...
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With The Bing National Tailgating Championship kicking off in Houston this Sunday, we invited Joe Cahn the nationally recognized Commissioner of Tailgating and master of ceremonies at the event to share his thoughts on the best part of tailgating– the food. For those of you not able to make it to the games, a quick reminder that Bing Recipes is a go-to for inspiration for tailgate chefs of all skill levels. Whether you’re...
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Since October 18th “Jay-Z Decoded by Bing” has taken players from the streets of Brooklyn, to luxury hotels in Miami, to New Orleans’ rooftops.  Over the past 17 days,  players have found over 170 pages of Jay-Z’s upcoming book Decoded.  This week players made – the virtual and physical trek- to one of Jay-Z’s regular hot spots.   The page, which describes how lessons learned on the...
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 I love working for Microsoft because I am constantly around amazingly smart people that creates endless learning possibilities.  There are so many challenges and problems to solve in this company that I walk away everyday having grown in one way or another.  Whether it is learning a new process, figuring out a new way to solve a problem, or having to just tough it out from the sheer amount of work stretches and grows me.  The...
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 My name is Arthur, and I’m the Test Manager for the Mobile Domains and Commerce team.  The MDC team is one of seven teams within the larger Bing Mobile organization, and together we are working to build innovative, world-class, mobile centric features for Bing users.  I love working in the mobile space.  To me, mobile is about immediacy:  who you are and who you’re with; where you are and where you’re...
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 I graduated with my Master’s Degree in Human Resources from the University of Minnesota last spring.  Upon graduation, I took an offer from Microsoft and launched my career in the HR Trax program at Microsoft.  HR Trax is an early in career rotational program at Microsoft in which I get great exposure to HR leaders and undertake 1 year rotations in the different HR specialties.  Whether you’re in a program like HR...
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Today we are completing our deployment of our new social features that we built in partnership with Facebook. We’re really excited to get these features in the hands of all our US users. As with all the work we do at Bing, we have been focused on user feedback in an effort to make sure the features are really useful to customers, and we have made a couple of changes to the product that we want to make people aware of. Early users told us...
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