2011

BUILD: New Windows Live SkyDrive Wave 5 features confirmed, with screenshots

So just over 24 hours ago, Steve Sinofsky took the stage at BUILD and unveiled to the world Microsoft’s next version of their operating system, Windows 8. As part of the keynote, Steve invited Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President for …

Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos

Early this morning we just posted about what we know about Windows 8 and the future of Windows Live, and now Microsoft’s Harrison Hoffman, Product Manager on the SkyDrive team (and one of the early founders of LiveSide), posted …

BUILD: Windows 8 and the future of Windows Live

It’s the first day of Microsoft’s BUILD conference, and by now I’m sure you’ve all seen Steven Sinofsky’s keynote demoing the next generation of Windows, codenamed Windows 8. One of our biggest question before the BUILD conference was: what role …

Live from Build, it’s the Day 1 keynote live blog!

Here we go again!  This time, we’re in Anaheim, California, for the unveiling of Windows 8.  We’ve been waiting a long time for this, and now finally Microsoft is ready to take the wraps off its touch centric, Metro-styled app …

Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed

Windows Phone TangoThe release of Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” is imminent, rumored to be made available to existing users sometime this week. News is already leaking out from Microsoft about the upcoming Windows Phone OS updates. First up, Mary Jo Foley

SkyDrive Wave 5: Expandable storage plans coming soon

SkyDriveA few days ago we just revealed that Microsoft has plans to offer unlimited storage space for documents and photos on SkyDrive, and 25 GB for everything else. This is in response to the ever-increasing need for additional cloud …

AT&T announces new Windows Phone 7.5 line-up, including Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash

AT&T just announced their upcoming line up of Windows Phone 7.5 devices coming this fall. All three devices, coming from HTC and Samsung respectively, will be 4G enabled. The first device, HTC TITAN, was announced last week featuring a …

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update coming next week?

Windows Phone MangoThe next major update for Windows Phone, codenamed “Mango”, was released to manufacturers (RTM) towards the end of July, carrying the build number 7720. Since then, three new Windows Phone 7.5 devices – the Fujitsu IS12T, HTC TITAN,

Coming soon to SkyDrive Wave 5: Unlimited photos and documents storage

SkyDriveWhen Windows Live SkyDrive first launched in 2007 (known as Windows Live Folders beta back then), it offered a mere 500 MB of free storage. Later on when the service got out of beta in early 2008, this free …

Microsoft to hold Hotmail press event on October 3

So after a series of updates back in June this year for Hotmail, Microsoft is inviting press analysts to attend a Hotmail event to be held on October 3 in San Francisco and New York. Below is the invitation:

Hotmail Invite

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