Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Azure Media Services. The general availability was announced by Scott Guthrie on his blog.
Microsoft as expected last week announced that it would be integrating its Yammer social networking and Skype unified communications services with Microsoft Dynamics CRM software. This week Microsoft took that effort a step further via an alliance with Moxie Software under which another social networking application for the enterprise is being integrated within Microsoft Dynamics.
In October, Microsoft announced that “Landing Page by Match Type” functionality would be coming soon to Bing Ads. Microsoft has just announced that Bing Ads API users are required to make mandatory code changes so that their applications continue to work properly when Landing Page by Match Type updates are completed.
At a company event in San Francisco yesterday, Microsoft launched the highly anticipated Windows Phone 8. Chris Velazco of TechCrunch was in attendance at the event, and reported that in addition to the launch of the new Windows Phone, Microsoft announced that the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 will be available for developers to download October 30, 2012.
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the rebranding of Microsoft Advertising adCenter to Bing Ads and introduced the Yahoo! Bing Network.
A look at Microsoft’s developer site shows that it has been busy catching up with Google APIs. The Bing Search API has moved to version 2.0 and is now part of the Windows Azure Marketplace . While 5000 transactions/month are free, the pricing of Bing API moves linearly with 500 transactions/month for every dollar (there are different slabs though).
Several Months ago, Microsoft announced that the Bing Search API had moved to the Windows Azure Marketplace. This move would make the Bing Search API a paid service with a tiered structure. Developers have been given until August 1st, 2012 to transition to the new version of the Bing Search API.
Microsoft has just announced the availability of the Microsoft Translator Hub for commercial use, including access to the Microsoft Translator API. Microsoft Translator Hub is built on Windows Azure, and provides tools for businesses to “build, improve, and deploy customized automatic language translation systems.”
On April 12th, Microsoft announced that:
“the Bing Search API will transition to…the Windows Azure Marketplace,” they later added that the service will “move to a monthly subscription model.”
So what does this mean for developers?
A year ago users of Garmin’s sport tracking devices logged into its Garmin Connect site to find a seemingly minor change. Instead of embedding Google Maps, the GPS manufacturer had switched to Microsoft’s Bing Maps. According to the 38 pages of comments in Garmin’s forums, this was in actuality a major change. A year later, Garmin responded in October by giving users the option of Bing or Google.
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