The Windows Live Search has gotten another overhaul now, and they’ve taken a little bit of a different slant on what their home page looks like as you can see from the screen shot.
Along with a new background, which I’ve yet to figure out if you can change it to something else you would like. If you hover over certain sections Microsoft kinds of leads you on the types of information you can search for and use with Live Search.
Most of the settings you’ve come to expect from customizing your search experience is available: filtering, language, number of results, …read more

Mary Jo Foley shares an article on ZD Net with us on how Microsoft is shooting after the target of being more environmentally conscious with it’s computers. It’s only described in how their expected Windows Server 2007 is going to use 20% less power.
How this will work is that the processor will slow down when it’s not needed to do what processors do. To me this is just obvious and doesn’t take much thought but I’m sure there were technical reasons on why this is a big deal. For me it’s like saying, “You know you’d save more gas if you …read more

 
Okay, I must be really out of touch or this stuff just isn’t hitting my radar screen as something that’s going to immediately impact my life. Have you heard of Microsoft’s PlayTable?
As usual Mary Jo Foley gets me the scoop on this bit of information.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates also provided a PlayTable-related technology demo during his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address in 2006, when he placed a cell phone containing digital photos on a tabletop device and all the pictures “flew out of it” and could be manipulated by touch and gestures. Microsoft has shown similar surface-computing-type demos at …read more

You’ve heard of Yahoo Pipes right? A little online application that lets you build mash-ups of various components on websites and build your own little version of a widget.
Microsoft has now released their own version of the ability to develop your own mash-ups and they’ve called it Microsoft Popfly, now in alpha. It was originally codenamed “Springfield”.
According to Mary Jo Foley, the biggest difference between the two, and it’s a huge one, is that Microsoft Pipes seems to be much easier to use.
Popfly, Microsoft’s newest Web mash-up development tool that the company released in alpha form on May 18, isn’t …read more

As I was reading through the WXPNews, another interesting article that Deb pointed me to was one written by Mrs. Microsoft, Mary Jo Foley.
The topic of discussion is what we may have to look forward to in IE8. From the looks of it, it appears that most of the changes are going to be under the hood and focused more towards the development community.
Microsoft may be looking for developers to “opt-in” for a more standards compliant development plan using IE. More support for CSS 2.1, more open API’s for new extensions from the community.
The other topic of discussion was how …read more

Syntagma Media has the scoop on Mary Jo Foley changing some blogging locations. She’ll be leaving Ziff Davis Media and will now be blogging for ZDNet specifically.
Mary Jo is probably most known for her work on Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley.
Mary Jo talks about her move personally here, Greetings, Microsoft Watchers!