June, 2011

New features in Music+Video hub in Windows Phone “Mango” revealed

As promised during the Windows Phone VIP press event, Microsoft is slowly revealing more new features in their upcoming Windows Phone "Mango" update. Today on the official Windows Phone blog, Microsoft detailed some of the upcoming changes in …

Microsoft confirms Office 365 launch date, general availability on June 28

Office 365 LogoOffice 365, the big brother of Windows Live, was revealed back in October last year, and is set to replace Office Live Small Business and Live@edu services when it launches. After a period of beta testing since then, Jon …

Xbox LIVE Diamond with IPTV service for Xbox 360 to debut at E3

Xbox LIVEFor those of you who are waiting for possible Zune-related announcements at E3 this year, well, there’s no news about that yet. But what we know is that Microsoft is rumored to be bringing an IPTV service to Xbox 360 …

Microsoft plans to turn SkyDrive into an application for Windows Live Wave 5?

On the eve of Apple’s iCloud announcement next Monday at WWDC 2011, Brian Hall, General Manager of Windows Live & Internet Explorer, presented at the Cowen and Company Annual Technology Media & Telecom Conference today, and gave some hints …

4 Questions about Windows 8 (and a lot more)

win8_start_webThe tip of the Windows 8 iceberg emerged today, at the D9 conference and at Computex, and after spending a few hours trying to digest what bits of info we could, we’re left with some first impressions and a …

Windows 8 “Immersive” interface unveiled at AllThingsD D9 conference and Computex

Windows 8 Start Screen

Today at the All Things Digital’s D9 conference, Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky joined Walt Mossberg on stage and showed off for the first time the "Immersive" user interface for Windows 8. According to Microsoft’s press

Windows Phone “Mango” concepts that never made the cut

Microsoft revealed to the world the next iteration of their Windows Phone OS codenamed "Mango" just last week at the VIP press conference, and demoed the latest testing build of their "Mango" OS in press events worldwide. We were …