Today in a blog post on the Windows Experience blog, Microsoft Apps & Services General Manager Ryan Gavin gives us the first glimpse at Microsoft’s marketing direction for its One Experience vision that Steve Ballmer laid out back in …

Today Microsoft officially announced that it will make Windows 8.1 available as a free update to all Windows 8 users beginning on October 18^th (in New Zealand, that is, it will actually be available on the 17^th in …

Are you having problems accessing Outlook.com, SkyDrive? You’re not alone, as Status.live.com is reporting “technical difficulties” for services “such as Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive”:

The problems (which we don’t seem to be having here) were reported at 9:01am (PDT – …

Want to have the job of telling developers that “their baby is ugly”? That’s what researchers on Bing’s experimentation platform do, according to a post by Dr. Ronny Kohavi on the Search Quality Insights blog titled “Large Scale Experimentation …

In June, Microsoft announced that it was expanding its Microsoft Store concept to include 1,500 to 2,200 square foot “stores” inside Best Buys, promising to be “will be the premier destination for consumers to see, try, compare and purchase a …

Skype has just announced, via its Garage and Updates blog, that Skype for Windows Phone has been updated. The new version, along with “quality and performance improvements”, includes a new People List Filter, and improvements to the Home Screen:…

If you don’t have it already (we don’t), an update for Bing on Windows Phone 8 is on the way within the next few weeks, according to a new post on the Windows Phone blog. Of course, being Bing, …

Earlier today Microsoft announced it would not pursue an appeal of a decision by the High Court of England and Wales that “SkyDrive” infringed on trademarks held by BSkyB. The two companies released a joint press release on the subject, …

As reported by Tom Warren at The Verge, Microsoft has decided after all not to appeal a decision stemming from a lawsuit restricting Microsoft from using the “SkyDrive” name anywhere in the European Union.  Microsoft had planned an appeal, …

Today, SkyDrive announced a major set of updates rolling out to everyone – hopefully you should see the improvements by the end of the day (Redmond time – GMT -8). As part of the push to get the word out …