This week, Skype updated its client for Mac and Windows, and if you’re using Skype on a Mac, or iOS or Android, you’ll be able to make use of a new, beta, feature, Video Messaging.  News of the video …

At the Dive Into Media conference produced by the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D this afternoon, Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of the Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB), and Nancy Tellem, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s LA Studios, took …

Today, the Microsoft Surface Pro went on sale for the first time, and depending on what you read, it’s already “sold out”.  The 128GB version is currently “out of stock” at microsoftstore.com (the 64GB model doesn’t have the same “out …

Even though when Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 8 and its new app model they said that “your (Windows Phone 7.x) app should just continue to work, without any changes”, that wasn’t apparently quite true, as we speculated back in September…

Last November, Bing unveiled Bing.com/Elections, an interactive experience that attracted almost 32 million people on Election Day, rivaling network news viewership.  Now, expanding on that experience, Microsoft is readying a new interactive experience for President Barack Obama’s State of …

A bunch of news sites popped up today posting interviews with Windows Chief Marketing Officer and CFO Tami Reller, one of the two women who took Steven Sinofsky’s place to run Windows at Microsoft.  While Reller didn’t release much in …

Earlier this week, Microsoft released Office 365 Home Premium, a $99/yr subscription service offering an updated Office suite along with extended SkyDrive storage (an extra 20GB, a $10/yr value).  Now today in a blog post on the Bing Search blog, …

According to a post on The Verge, Google Sync, which Google announced last month would be no longer available for new Windows Phones beginning January 30th (today), is backing off on that pronouncement and has extended EAS (Exchange Active …

Today on a blog post over at Nokia Conversations, Nokia has announced that Windows Phone 7.8 is ready for rollout and will be available for all Nokia Windows Phone 7.5 devices.

Windows Phone 7.8 brings Windows Phone 8’s three …

In Part 1 of this post, we examined a post by analyst Adam Hartung posted last week in Forbes, and a subsequent interview with Hartung by Onoura Amobi from Windows8Update.com.  Hartung believes that by coming late to …