Microsoft will release a Windows 8 Release Preview in the first week of June. Steven Sinofsky announced this during a Windows developer event in Japan. The news was spread via Twitter.

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In an exclusive report from The Verge today, Tom Warren has revealed that Microsoft may be planning to unveil a new music service at E3, according to his sources.  The new service, code named “Woodstock”, would replace the current but …

Microsoft has released a new version of Security Essentials. The new version (version 4) is available via the Microsoft Download Center and the Microsoft Security Essentials web site.

Those who participated in the beta received the following email:

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Microsoft announced two changes for Windows Phone owners today, ones that “most of you likely won’t even notice” according to a blog post on the Windows Phone blog.  The first removes the ability to purchase Windows Phone apps from …

The Facebook for Windows Phone app only just received an overhaul back in February, and today over at the official Facebook for Windows Phone page the team responsible for developing the app had shared a post revealing what’s coming …

This morning, even a bit earlier than we expected, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres posted on the Building Windows 8 blog on the new updates to SkyDrive that “make personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere”

Here’s what’s available now, …

Microsoft released updates to two high-profile apps today on the Windows Phone marketplace. As promised previously, Microsoft released the final version of the Skype for Windows Phone app.  In addition, Microsoft also bumped the version number of their SkyDrive …

Ever since LG released their last Windows Phone – the LG Jil Sander E906, the company had almost completely disappeared from the Windows Phone front, with the company making no contribution to the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” generation of …

Yesterday, Microsoft released their 3rd Quarter Earnings statement, and reported a stellar quarter.  This morning, $MSFTs  US stock market price is up over 5.5% on the news (and up over 20% since last April – you can follow some …

Nokia released its first quarter earnings today, and as expected, the news isn’t good.  Posting a $1.7 billion quarterly loss, on net sales that were down 30%, Nokia continues to struggle with “greater than expected competitive challenges”, and “mixed’ …