When Microsoft first introduced Snapshots a year ago in May, the idea was to connect the billions of entities and documents on the web with the trillions of relationships between those entities, actions, and people. Microsoft uses technology …

Microsoft’s latest version of Photosynth, first revealed at Build earlier this year and based on WebGL technologies finally built in to IE 11, is now in a limited first-come first-served preview. You can sign up and get on the list …

Today on the Bing Search blog, Microsoft announced the availability of a preview of the new Bing Maps experience, the Bing Maps Preview, and you can download Bing Maps Preview from the Windows Store today for your Windows 8.1 …

Today, on the Skype blog, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Guangming Founder (or GMF, itself a joint venture with GMW.cn and Chinese computing company Founder) to bring updated Skype experiences to China. In March, Microsoft shut down its MSN …

One of the first Windows Store apps to ship along with Windows 8 was the OneNote app, and today, according to a blog post on the OneNote blog, the app is receiving a “BIG update”:

Today, we released an

This September, rather than face an uphill court battle with Britain’s BSkyB, Microsoft relented and agreed to change the name of its up and coming cloud storage services known as SkyDrive. If you’ve been following LiveSide over the past 7 …

Last night, my friend PicturePan2 (he’s here for this week’s MVP Summit, where we’ve been all week) and I headed back to Bellevue to witness the Xbox One Launch at the Bellevue Square Microsoft Store. Bellevue wasn’t one of the …

It’s a big day for shareholder’s meetings today, with Nokia holding one earlier today and the Microsoft shareholder’s meeting, including a vote on whether or not Steve Ballmer will remain on the board, later today.

For Nokia, the big vote, …

November 22^nd is, of course, Xbox One day, and Microsoft is planning events around the globe for the release of its first entirely new gaming console since the Xbox 360 was launched 8 years ago almost to the day. …

A rumor came out of China’s WPDang last night (no better place for a reliable CEO rumor than a Chinese Windows Phone enthusiasts’ site, right?) than Microsoft’s Board of Directors has made a final decision on the company’s next CEO. …