While the future of Windows Live Writer remains uncertain, even with faint praise coming in the form of a tweet by Chris Jones, another Windows Live Essentials app missing from the Building Windows 8 blog on the death …

Yesterday’s Windows 8 blog post on the “reimagining” of Windows Live, or, if you prefer, the “ditching” or “killing” of Windows Live, (as it was referred to in numerous tech blogs commenting on the post),  as is customary when …

When we said goodbye to “Windows Live” today, it wasn’t the only rebranding announcement to come out of Microsoft recently: yesterday Microsoft Advertising rebranded itself to “Bing”, or “Bing for Small Business”.  And of course, being Microsoft, the …

In a post on the Building Windows 8 blog this morning, Corporate Vice President Chris Jones laid out the thinking behind what he calls “Windows Live, reimagined”, which perhaps most significantly, includes the zinger confirmation that Windows Live “did …

After receiving a tip today on (another) new look for Bing (thanks Hector!), we tried it out and sure enough, we’re getting a new search results page,  a new header, and a new look for Bing Search blogs, …

The big news today is that Microsoft and Barnes and Noble have announced a new partnership where B&N will spin off its Nook E-Reader and its educational books business into a new, as yet named “newco”, backed by a $300 …

It’s the burning question of our time: will current Windows Phones be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8, or not?  Ever since WMPowerUser republished a Zwame.pt interview with a Portuguese Microsoft evangelist saying that “all actual devices will get upgrade to …

In an exclusive report from The Verge today, Tom Warren has revealed that Microsoft may be planning to unveil a new music service at E3, according to his sources.  The new service, code named “Woodstock”, would replace the current but …

Microsoft announced two changes for Windows Phone owners today, ones that “most of you likely won’t even notice” according to a blog post on the Windows Phone blog.  The first removes the ability to purchase Windows Phone apps from …

This morning, even a bit earlier than we expected, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres posted on the Building Windows 8 blog on the new updates to SkyDrive that “make personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere”

Here’s what’s available now, …