Internet Explorer is my browser of choice and I’m eagerly looking forward to the enhancements coming in IE 7 . However, some of our customers prefer using Firefox and we respect that choice. Some developers in our user community have created Firefox plug...

The VE team made two exciting announcements for developers at this weeks PDC – one practical, the other just pure fun. Let’s get practical out of the way first. When VE was first released in July, it was accompanied by a Javascript library that developers...

Today at noon we’ll be giving a session at PDC'05 titled Tips, Tricks, & Hacks. We’ll be talking about advanced search syntax for both web and desktop search. For the web, I’ve prepared a hack that makes some of our advanced search syntax more accessible...

For all you developers out there, you’ll be happy to know that you can now build applications that leverage the power of MSN Search through our new MSN Search Web Service. Our new SOAP Web Service offers an enormous 10,000 queries per application per...

There have been hints for a while that we were going to be releasing an API for Search this year, but we had hoped that it would stay quiet for just one more week. It didn't and there is no reason to cry over spilt milk. The API itself will be released...

Hi, I am a PM on the toolbar team. With the help of the MSN Games and MSN Safety teams, we’ve just released two new toolbar add-ins. One is the Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in and the other is the MSN Games Add-in . Phishing is an attempt to gain people...

Our hearts go out to all of those that are affected by Hurricane Katrina in any way. MSN and Microsoft have been doing a number of things to try and help and we hope you will find these resources useful: MSN Donate: The RedCross site has been experiencing...