Our first Bing’s Best Windows 7 theme pack was so popular that we’ve decided to do another! From the jagged peaks of the Andes, to the Vermillion Cliffs in Arizona, to Spain’s Basque region, this set takes you around the world using some of our favorite Bing homepage images from the past several months. There are 21 wallpapers in all… here’s a sneak peak at a few of them: To download the full theme pack, go to Bing...
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Nothing really beats a crisp spring day at one of the great ballparks around the country. With baseball season kicking off this week, I’m sure there will be a lot of people planning trips to the park or marking calendars for upcoming games to watch from home. Either way, Bing can help you prepare for the season.  Whether you’re checking the latest scores or researching what games to attend, visit Bing and search for MLB, or a...
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This week Bing Maps and Microsoft Research will be heading to San Jose to attend O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Bing Maps will kick off the event keynote at 9am and will also take part in “The Big Picture, from the Big Players” panel at 2pm alongside Danny Sullivan and folks from Yahoo!, Google and Yelp. If you can’t make it to the keynote, the speech will be live streamed...
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Betsynote: I first ran into Professor Michael Eisenberg last fall when he was introduced to me by multiple folks – the MacArthur Foundation, local Seattle educators, and the NCCE conference organizers.  When I chatted with him in his office (yes, I got lost, even though it was Mary Gates Hall as a landmark) I realized he had a long history of working with Internet literacy and critical thinking, and his pro-library/reference stance...
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  You’ll notice something “off” about the homepage tomorrow – our lights! On Saturday, March 27th from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time, the World Wildlife Fund invites you to join people from 3,100 cities in 121 countries on all 7 continents in participating in Earth Hour, where people across the world can demonstrate their concern about global climate change with the simplest of gestures: turning off all non-essential...
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Tonight marks the second global Twestival (or Twitter Festival) in over 175 cities around the world and Bing is excited to be a part of it in at least a few of those cities.  At first I asked the team to see how many we could hit in a night to lend our support and donations to Twestival’s great charity beneficiary, but cooler heads (and the pesky immutable laws of spacetime) have limited us to four cities.  Look for Betsy (@baoki...
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Today at SES New York we shared with attendees our plans to begin testing some new Bing features as we start to move into the next wave of innovation which will be rolling out later this spring and summer. Our focus remains consistent – we want Bing to be the best place to help you make better decisions. When we launched last June, one of the ways we helped customers get to better decisions was by providing a more visual, more...
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When it comes to conferences, March, indeed, is madness. Let’s quickly recount.  March tipped off with a bang (or “bing!” if you may) with Steve Ballmer and Danny Sullivan chatted search and more at SMX West in Santa Clara.  Next, we ran the ball up the court to Portland’s Searchfest, where Stefan Weitz was handsomely rewarded for delivering the keynote.  Onwards to SXSWi in Austin – another city...
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Plan Your Spring Break with Bing Oh how I love this time of year. A little spring cleaning, the start of the NCAA basketball tournament, the anticipation of warm afternoons at the ballpark, and students and families gearing up for Spring Break. As I work away from the comfort of my office, I intend to reminisce and remember the good old days of sunny vacations and relaxation while I continue to work away from the comfort of my desk. Are you one...
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Today we’re excited to announce an update to the Bing app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You can get it for free from the App Store on your device or use iTunes to download it. In the months following the November release of the app, we received great feedback from people with suggestions for improvements, many of which have been added to this release. For instance, we’ve made a number of stability fixes and usability tweaks...
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