Just getting the urge to regurgitate press releases out of our system today – but here’s just one more (hey, we read press releases so you don’t have to!).  Today Microsoft has announced an API for MSN Direct, to allow …

Microsoft has announced deals with a number of computer hardware manufacturers to pre-install Windows Live OneCare on new computers, including Sony Corporation of America and Toshiba Asia Pacific.

Consumers in more than 12 countries can now better protect and maintain

Looks like we’ll be seeing a new MSN.com homepage soon, even though it leaves Mini-Microsoft cold:

And some of the projects he’s (ed: Kevin Johnson) interested in and driving just leave me cold (e.g., the

A post this weekend on msdn blogs from Yazan Rantawi explains how to get Live Mesh running on a Windows Server, and I just set it up with my Windows Home Server (which is Windows Server 2003 under the hood).  …

Chris Pendleton is reporting today that the Photosynth team is moving into the Virtual Earth product group.

Ever since the launch of Photosynth there’s been much discussion about the natural synergy of it and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Well, it’s now

Just released are four new QuickApps, demo apps that you can use, study, and/or modify.  They take advantage of Windows Live and Microsoft tools such as Silverlight, Windows Live ID, Messenger, and more.  Angus Logan has more, including …

Chris Pendleton has a long post today about TrueSpace 7.6, and on his blog and also on the TrueSpace website there are some truly amazing renderings.  Check out some of the animations, along with the video on Chris’s blog.

Using …

This morning at the Financial Analyst’s Meeting (FAM), being held on Microsoft’s campus, Satya Nadella announced an extension of Microsoft’s U.S. relationship with Facebook to encompass search.  An email from Waggener Edstrom clarifies:

As part of the deal, Microsoft will

If we didn’t know better, we’d say our friend Angus Logan was jealous.  Wants us to change our name, even.  Apparently in a blatant attempt to get his name back on LiveSide, he posted on some cool improvements to the …

Microsoft just wrapped up its annual Global Exchange, known by one and all as MGX.  This year it was in Atlanta, where 13,000 Microsoft employees, sales and marketing types, and evangelists gathered to get pumped up and ready to sell, …