Windows Phone 7 became available for sale today (Oct. 21) in Europe, Australia and elsewhere (US sales are set to begin on Nov 8), and at least some Australian consumers had a hard time finding the new phone to buy, …

The first Windows Phone 7 device went on sale in New Zealand earlier today, and should now be available to customers in 10 other countries. Coinciding with the launch today is the availability of the “official” Windows Live Messenger …

The first Windows Phone 7 devices are in the hands of consumers now: the launch has started. New Zealand was first (hey they are ahead in time – time zones) and today people in Australia, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, …

Microsoft announced their new Office 365 cloud service yesterday which combines Microsoft Office 2010, Office Web Apps, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single bundle for small businesses, enterprises, and educational institutions. Digging deeper into the FAQs …

Microsoft announced today a beta trial of a new hosted suite of services, dubbed Office 365.  The new suite combines Office Web Apps, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single bundle either for small businesses (less …

Eric Larsen and his team have completed the third, and final, leg of the Save the Poles Expedition. Late last week he made it up to the summit of Mt. Everest. 

Eric Larsen and his team on …

Last week, Microsoft FUSE Labs had made some significant improvements to Docs.com since their August update as stated on their recent blog post. Here’s what was updated in the recent release:

Full Text Search and Social Document Ranking

In …

Last month Microsoft announced a string of updates to be rolled out to Hotmail users within the next few months. The updates included Facebook chat support within Hotmail’s web messenger, sub-folders support, increase in attachment size limit to 25MB, new …

We’re still working through some details of our move to WordPress, but there’s more to LiveSide than just new themes, and we’ve got some interesting tidbits to report.  This one comes to us from our friend Nikhil in India, who …

In an email to employees today, CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft:

…Ray and I are announcing today Ray’s intention to step down from his role as chief software architect. He