May, 2013

Outlook.com: just how much is 150 petabytes, anyway?

petabyte tweetToday Microsoft announced that they’ve completed the transition of all 300 million Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com (while apparently adding another 100 million users, as Outlook.com is boasting 400 million active accounts according to today’s Outlook Blog post).  The move …

Outlook.com completes upgrade for all Hotmail users, adds features

outlook_com-logo-smOnly six weeks after starting an upgrade process to bring all 300 million + Hotmail users over to Outlook.com, the newly rebranded and refreshed consumer online email experience, Microsoft announced today in a blog post over at the Outlook

Skype Video Messaging Preview now available in the Windows 8 Store

This has been a big week for Skype announcements.  On Monday, Microsoft announced a beta of Skype for Outlook.com, coming first to the UK, then to the US and Germany “in the coming weeks”, and the rest of the …

Xbox heats up the buzz for May, June announcements

We already know the dates: May 21st for “Xbox: A New Generation Revealed”, and  a well rumored June 10th date for the Xbox press event the day before E3 (June 11-13th) in Los Angeles.

Today brings some news …