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Today’s Bing update: News

Yesterday, Bing updated its Videos section, and now today there’s news of another update, this time to …. News. The new look News section is built for touch and features an adaptive design, automatically adapting for your device width …

Where is our “Xbox for the rest of us”?

Microsoft made it official today: the Xbox One will be available (limited by regions, at least to start) starting on November 22nd, just in time for the post Thanksgiving (here in the US) holiday shopping free-for-all that is Black Friday:…

Some key points in the Microsoft – Nokia deal

Sure, let’s spend the last moments of Labor Day digging through press releases, Yay! Late Monday, Microsoft announced that it is purchasing Nokia’s Devices and Services business for some $7.17 Billion (US), in a deal expected to close in the …

Microsoft to purchase Nokia Devices and Services business (breaking)

Well, that was fast (unless you’ve been expecting it all along, that is). In the past week, Microsoft as announced the retirement of its longtime CEO, accepted activist investors onto its Board of Directors, and just now announced that it …

SkyDrive renaming and Windows 8.1 “delay” – are they related?

Microsoft has stepped in it once again with the official announcement yesterday that although Windows 8.1 has “RTM”ed (which up until now has always meant “Released to Manufacturing”, ie: the bits were done and Microsoft would start printing disks/CDs/DVDs, but …

Yahoo! almost traded its search business for MSN.com

Business Insider posted what has to be their longest form post, ever, this morning, an “unauthorized Marissa Mayer biography”, the story of how she came to become Yahoo!’s CEO. It’s an excellent read, and an excellent job of reporting …

Steve Ballmer to retire – a necessary move?

Today, Microsoft announced in a press release and the release of a letter from CEO Steve Ballmer to Microsoft employees, that Ballmer will retire from Microsoft as soon as a new CEO can be found, sometime within the next twelve …

Microsoft account aliases – simplified

Back in 2011, Microsoft began the process of simplifying the way you log in to Microsoft services, changing the old multiple account Sign In screen for Hotmail and other services to a single sign in, and has been promoting …

What a mess! Google and Microsoft fight over a Windows Phone YouTube app

Last week, after what has become a long sordid ordeal in trying to get a working YouTube app for Windows Phone, Microsoft tried again, releasing an updated app that it felt addressed Google’s concerns. Apparently not, as today, Google has …

Skype on Windows 8.1 – bye bye “messaging”, hello Skype

With the news this morning that Skype will be included with Windows 8.1, we wanted to know we were getting our story straight, and so put in a question or two to our friendly Microsoft spokesperson. If you remember, …