Today in a 2 hour keynote, Microsoft spoke for the first time about Windows Phone 8, the next generation of Windows Phone Operating system, and revealed a number of platform improvements coming to new devices “this fall”.  While no specific …

One of the big questions for current Windows Phone questions has been whether or not current Windows Phones will be able to gain the benefits of the new operating system.  The Verge came up with a definitive answer today, …

In early May, Microsoft sent out invitations to a “Developer Summit”, to be held in San Francisco on June 20-21.  Since then, the name has been changed to the “Windows Phone Summit”, and Microsoft is widely expected to begin talking …

Caught up in the buzz about Microsoft’s “mystery event” yesterday, which ended up being a pretty big deal after all with the unveiling of a new family of “Microsoft Surface” Windows 8 tablets, was a post on the Bing …

Microsoft has made a number of impressive announcements in the past few months (with hopefully more to come as early as Wednesday, when we’ll begin to hear more about Windows Phone 8), all beginning last October when we caught our …

Here’s the press release from Microsoft on today’s big mystery announcement, which turns out to be a family of new tablets, called “Surface”:

LOS ANGELES — June 18, 2012 — Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs …

At a hastily convened press event in Los Angeles, revealed this morning to be at Milk Studios, a fashion photography studio amazingly enough on Vista Street, Microsoft, after keeping tech pundits guessing for days, announced a new Microsoft branded tablet, …

Lots of speculation about what appears to be a leaked Xbox 720 slide deck that hit the web yesterday, apparently from August or September of 2010, laying out a roadmap for Xbox through 2015, and listing a number of new …

One of Ray Ozzie’s favorite sayings is “we don’t know what we don’t know”.  For Microsoft followers, there’s a lot we don’t know right now, and the plot just keeps thickening.  The latest rumors focus around Microsoft’s apparent acquisition of …

In a blog post on the Bing Search blog today, Bing announced a new partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica to bring Britannica Online answers directly within the Bing search results:

The answer provides a quick overview of the subject, a thumbnail