Today in New York, Microsoft unveiled successors to the Surface RT and Surface Pro, with faster speeds, thinner covers, better cameras and resolutions, and a number of new accessories. The new models, and some of the accessories, will be available …

Yesterday’s Microsoft Financial Analysts Meeting was all at once a reaffirmation of Microsoft’s strengths, a defense of its positions, especially in the consumer space, a last dance of sorts for outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer, and a glimpse at a new …

Microsoft first unveiled a developer preview of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8 earlier this year at Build, and then shortly after that released a version for Windows 7, in July. Since then, IE 11 Release Preview for Windows 8.1 …

Today, in a blog post on Blogging Windows, Microsoft revealed its pricing structure for Windows 8.1, due to hit the shelves and the download queues on October 18^th. There’s definitely some new information, and some changes in …

This morning, Microsoft unveiled a new logo, a redesigned interface, and a new set of features for Bing. The logo moves Microsoft’s search property away from the controversial (to typographers, at least) extra-kerning old logo and in line with …

This morning, in a Reddit.com AMA (Ask Me Anything), the Outlook.com team dropped a bit of a surprise and an exclusive: Outlook.com now supports IMAP. Here’s the exchange:

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Yesterday Microsoft released Windows 8.1 RTM to MSDN and TechNet, and thanks to our MVP status and complimentary subscriptions we were able to download and install the new bits. We went ahead and just installed over Windows 8.1 Preview, with …

After initially saying that they weren’t going to release Windows 8.1 RTM to developers and IT pros early, Microsoft today recanted and is releasing the newly RTMed builds of Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro, and Windows Server 2012 R2 …

Microsoft just announced a new set of updates for Xbox Music, including the release of basic apps for both iOS and Android, an expansion of Xbox Music’s web based music player, and news of more to come. Meanwhile, we’re still …

Earlier today, Paul Thurrott let off some steam (granted, he’s never been very shy about that), ranting about the perceived notion that Microsoft has taken to copying Apple when it should be, in Thurrott’s estimation, copying Google instead. In making …