A couple of big announcements coming in from Gamescom 2010 in Cologne, Germany, one of which is the unveiling of the first (of many more to come, we expect) titles for Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft announced two …

Last month we revealed what was thought to be the new SkyDrive logo which quietly appeared on the Windows Live Preview promotional website. Today, the same logo appeared on Microsoft Australia’s ninemsn.com.au website, which confirms that this is …

Last we heard the Bing for iPhone app was at about 4.3 million downloads (should be significantly more than that by now, is there a way to track iPhone app downloads?), and based on that success it looks like Bing …

The state of California has that government’s email systems up for contract, a $60 million prize servicing some 200,000 users, according to an article in the LA Times.  The state has announced its intentions to award the contract to …

Just noticed a comment from Michael that Hotmail is working for him in Opera, now, possibly after a hotfix we wrote about yesterday.  Here’s the current description of the problems some Hotmail users may be encountering currently, as posted …

Problems for a subset of users continue to be a hot topic on the Hotmail forums at Windows Live Solution Center, and today a moderator representing Microsoft, Roopa S, posted some new information:

Update as of 08/11:

A hotfix

Windows Live Gallery is dead! Ok, technically it’s not, but it looks like it hasn’t long left of this world. Yes, yes, I know, we’re basing this on purely one section of the site being cut off and …

Earlier today, reports are coming in that users are getting Hotmail’s Exchange ActiveSync working again. I went in and tried it on my iPod touch, and to my surprise it actually worked perfectly – it synced all my mails, …

Well it looks like Gallery.live.com may be nearing the end of its days.  According to a blog post by Aaron Bregel from the Live Writer team, an email was sent out today (August 10th), informing Writer plug-in authors that they …

A number of sites including Mary Jo Foley’s All About Microsoft, Neowin, and Francisco Martin’s Microsoft Journal are reporting their expectation of a new beta version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 (or Wave 4), due next week (according …