Even though Windows Home Server isn’t specifically a Windows Live product, it does fall within the consumer space, we happen to like it, and we like to keep you up to date on what really is an essential component of …

Yesterday, amid all the hubbub about Google calling Microsoft “cheaters”, and Microsoft firing right back, came a Bing sponsored conference in San Francisco held by BigThink.com.  The four hour conference was supposed to be a discussion about the future …

Congratulations go out today to Senior Vice President of Windows Live, Chris Jones.  Jones has been a Corporate Vice President for Windows Live, but his status was updated today on the Microsoft executives page (thanks for the tip, you know …

Sorry to say we missed all the commotion today, but apparently there was quite a donnybrook between Google and Bing, featuring a whole cast of characters, name calling, accusations, dueling blog posts, and tweet battles.  Whew,  if this keeps up, …

A small percentage of Windows Phone users (man, that must be a REALLY small number) apparently have been seeing abnormal data usage on their Windows Phones, and today our pal Rafael Rivera from Within Windows posted on some experiments he …

A rumor has started, apparently from some French Windows Phone enthusiast websites, that the by now long awaited Windows Phone 7 update, code named “nodo” (for no donuts) may appear as early as Monday, February 7.  …

Microsoft has published a rather daunting looking Knowledge Base article on troubleshooting Windows Phone 7 update problems, presumably getting ready for the hopefully soon to arrive update to the new phones.  The update is widely expected to add copy/paste functionality …

Today is “Data Privacy Day” (what, you didn’t take the day off?), and Microsoft is celebrating by rolling out a blog post on how much they’ve been doing lately to protect our accounts, especially in Hotmail.

The blog post, on …

Alongside the news of Microsoft’s second quarter earnings (yup, they’re still making boatloads of money, except for Online Services – MSN and Bing – which are still losing boatloads) came an interesting little twist.  A small, ahem, “low latency, …

According to a set of tweets from Bloomberg News journalist Dina Bass, who interviewed Microsoft executive Greg Sullivan for an upcoming story, the company shipped (edit: the software for..  MS did not actually ship the phones, of course) 2 million …