Microsoft Bing Tweaked for Entertainment, Movies, Music
by Nicholas Kolakowski
Bing Homepage
Bing’s homepage now features an Entertainment tab.
Entertainment Tabs
When you click on that Entertainment tab, youre led to a page with separate tabs for Music, Movies, TV,
Casual Games
Bing now features casual games, which can be played online via a dedicated page.
Video Games
Bings “Video Games” tab provides access to cheats, walkthroughs, official sites and trailers for console games such as “Batman: Arkham Asylum” and “Red Dead Redemption.”
TV Section
Bings TV section offers full-length episodes from more than 1,500 shows, some of them with high-definition content.
Movies
Bings Movies section offers the latest showtimes, reviews, synopses and trailers.
Streaming Songs
Bing now offers streaming songs via Microsofts Zune service. The first song-play from Zunes catalog is free; after that, youre limited to 30 second previews.
Song Lyrics
Bing also offers song lyrics in return for typing in the name of an artist or band.
Buying Music
Users can route through Bing to purchase music from Amazon.com, Zune or iTunes.
Entertainment Info
Bings Entertainment features focus particularly on user-centric information like tour dates (for music) and showtimes (for movies).