As expected, Microsoft announced in a press release today that it is expanding partnerships with entertainment providers to bring new services to Xbox Live on the Xbox 360 this holiday season.

Nearly 40 TV and entertainment providers from more …

Last Friday we heard reports from Bloomberg that Microsoft could be announcing details about their upcoming Xbox LIVE TV service sometime this week. Today an article on AllThingsD further confirms this, claiming that we could be hearing details about this …

What is wrong with these people?  Yesterday, after a comedy of errors and false starts, a Zune.net notice went up announcing that “we will no longer be producing Zune players”.  Finally, we thought (and blogged), this charade of “will there …

Today is one of those days where it’s probably better to just go out and play.  Apple announced its new lineup of iOS updates and devices, and pretty much everything else has ground to a halt (including, for a time, …

With the Windows Phone “Mango” update just released to 50% of existing customers, news are already coming out for the next update codenamed “Tango”. The latest news came from Thailand’s Bangkok Post (via WMPU), where one of its …

Obviously this should come as no surprise to Microsoft watchers, but the Zune  players were finally laid to rest today in a notice on Zune.net:

We recently announced that, going forward, Windows Phone will be the focus of our

Following the announcement of the new features coming to Hotmail Wave 5 this morning, Microsoft (in conjunction with SEVEN) released the official Windows Live Hotmail app for Android phones in the Android Market. According to the app’s entry, …

We’re down here in San Francisco, at the Robert Fountain Studio, with Chris Jones, the Corporate VP of Windows Live Engineering, to talk about Hotmail, where it’s been and where it’s going, and to get a first look at a …

Our friend Long Zheng spotted news of an upcoming Nokia Maps app for Windows Phone, apparently coming to (at least) Nokia Windows Phones when they begin to show up sometime shortly after Nokia World at the end of this …

Our friend (and now MVP colleague) Travis Pope just alerted us that the Windows Live Gallery (gallery.live.com), at one time a  repository for gadgets, emoticons, and plugins for Spaces, Writer, Messenger, and more, is no longer, not that it comes …