The Bing home page just got a Facebook Like button - you can now "like" home page images. Meantime, it seems more people "like" Bing with search volume up 29% last year. 

This evening I'm helping host an event in San Francisco with reporters to talk about Natural User Interface (NUI). It's a hot topic in Microsoft and one that touches almost all of our products - read on to get a little more background on why NUI, why now and follows @MSFTNext to keep up with the discussion from this evening. 

Imagine being able to search through a video, TV show or movie for particular phrases or words. Sounds good...now how about being able to jump to the precise point where that word occurs? That's what MAVIS from Microsoft Research enables and the US Department of Energy just announced they're using it. I wish I'd had it for Super Bowl Sunday! 

Microsoft's Firenze competition had its finale last weekend and the $20k prize money was awarded just in time for the teams to kick back and watch the Superbowl. As an observer, it was a great 2 days to watch students deal with a startup like environment and adapt to the natural changes of business but more than that, I took away two things about changing perceptions and following passions. 

The fourth in our Something for the Weekend series takes a look inside Microsoft's Studio B for some old skool posters.