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Xbox Music and Video Apps updated, too

Yesterday brought us updates to some of the core apps for Windows 8, refreshing Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging, and today, there are more updates if you’re a Windows 8 user, this time for Xbox Music and Video:

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Again, if …

Windows 8 Core Apps available now

As we reported, the core app updates for Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging are available a little earlier than tomorrow, that is, they’re ready to go right now.  If you don’t see them in the Windows Store, from the …

Windows 8 core app updates on the way

whats newToday, Microsoft announced that by tomorrow (and maybe even tonight if you’re lucky), Windows 8 users will be offered updates for three of the “core apps” that shipped with the new version of Windows: Mail, Calendar, and People.  A post

Calendar rumblings?

Like the Holy Grail, a workable Hotmail / Outlook.com Calendar has been elusive for longer than we care to remember, but some recent indications are that one may indeed be on the way.

If you caught Jamie Thomson’s comment on …

Lots of Microsoft news today. We get blindsided

the-other-guySometimes you’re in the right place at the right time.  Sometimes, not so much.  Instead of bringing you what turned out to be a slew of Microsoft news today, we were dealing with the aftermath of what may have been …

Skype for Windows Phone updated: People Hub integration is back

skypeBack in January, citing “issues with device stability”, Skype for Windows Phone temporarily disabled Windows Phone People Hub integration, promising to work with the Windows Phone team to get it back.  Well they have, and today it’s back as …

Can the mobile landscape change?

Shifting_SandsSpeaking to the Australian Financial Review, Blackberry’s CEO Thorstein Heins this week had a few choice things to say about the current mobile landscape, including his thoughts on Apple’s leadership in the mobile space, and how fleeting that may be:…

Yesterday’s Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive outage? Hotmail got too hot

overheatedSome Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, and SkyDrive services were down for as much as 16 hours yesterday, with an outage that started at 1:35pm PDT and wasn’t fully restored until this morning at 5:43 am PDT, according to a blog post by

Blogs We Like(d): Google shuts down Reader, CalDAV

google readerGoogle, to the surprise of no one, announced today that they were shutting down Google Reader, a service they’ve provided since it launched from Google Labs in 2005.  We initially (as we try to do with most things Google) shied …

Microsoft goes after students: Office 365, SkyDrive, Skype free offers

office365UappsMicrosoft is going after its next generation of Office users in a big way, today introducing a new campaign aimed at getting US university students hooked on Office 365, SkyDrive, and Skype.  To promote the offers, Microsoft also today released …