Over the past few months, Bing has correctly predicted everything from The World Cup to midterm elections, all with uncanny accuracy. Now, we’re turning our attention to the gridiron and arguably the best day for pigskin all year – Thanksgiving. You can check out our predictions below, but Bing isn’t the only member of the Microsoft family getting in on the turkey day fun. For the first time ever, NFL players simulated two of the league’s...
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Here on the Bing homepage team, we wake up every day thinking about how we can make the homepage even better, inspired by those of you who visit bing.com each day and take the time to tell us what you think.  Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re adding one of your most requested features — high-definition images — along with several other improvements. High-definition homepages to make your screen shine “Wouldn’t it be...
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As we approach the last days of November, we prepare for the annual time-honored tradition of … NFL playoff projections. By the time you’ve finished your turkey on Thanksgiving Day, NFL teams will be planning their final run for prime playoff position in order to maximize their chances of taking home the Lombardi Trophy.  To help you navigate the final full month, Bing Predicts has run simulations to provide our projections for the seeding of the...
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If you haven’t yet started your holiday shopping, it may just pay you to get going early this year. For a limited time, Bing Rewards members will get bonus credits just by buying certain products in the Microsoft Store online. These offers end November 21, so don’t hang around. Not a Bing Rewards member? No problem, you can join during checkout. Go to www.microsoftstore.com for these deals and more. Bing Rewards members know they already receive...
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Today we honor the 22 million men and women among us who have served our country. Every November 11th, we honor and thank our veterans and all those who give so much to protect what we hold dear. Individuals, groups, and businesses everywhere express their gratitude in different ways. Many restaurants mark this day by giving free or discounted meals to veterans and this year we’re making it easier to find participating restaurants when you...
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Finding show times and theater for a movie you want to see is easy on Bing.  Simply type in the movie and voila, we will display the information right in the search results.   But what about those times when you don’t know which movie you want to see? Or those times when you have no idea which movies are even out? Today we’re making that part much easier with a carousel* experience that will dynamically display all of the movies playing in your...
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Here is a deeply troubling statistic:  1 in 5 women and 1 in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college. At the White House earlier today, President Obama urged all Americans to stand up against sexual assault on college and university campuses. Microsoft is pleased to be a partner in the effort of “It’s On Us,” a private-public partnership formed in response to this call to action between the Center for American Progress and a number of companies...
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Today, Apple unveiled the latest incarnation of the iPhone. Underscoring Bing’s increasingly important role as a service layer across Microsoft and beyond, we’re excited to support the release as Bing will be powering the new integrated web search in iOS Spotlight. When you search on your iPhone or iPad, alongside the contents of your phone Bing will provide web search links so you can find information even faster. Bing was designed from the...
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Last month, we announced the expansion of Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana to China (nicknamed “Xiao Na”).  As you can read about here, the team did a tremendous amount of work to tailor the experience to ensure that Cortana felt intelligent and natural for Chinese speakers. Today we wanted to share some related work that was inspired by the question Alan Turing posed in 1950: “Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the...
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For all kinds of searches, Bing lets you ask a question the way you would ask a friend. For example, “who is the President of the United States” or “the tallest building in the world”, or “who played Morpheus in The Matrix”, Bing will show the most pertinent information about Barack Obama, Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Lawrence Fishburne.  So, by combining conversational understanding with our knowledge repository containing information on billions of...
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