On February 1st, BigThink.com, an “online knowledge forum” that has been leading discussions on a wide range of topics since 2007, will present “Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box”.  The four hour presentation (from 10am to 2pm …

According to an article appearing over at Anand Khanse’s The Windows Club, The Windows Clubhouse will be shutting down this spring.  The marketing effort which was to feature blog posts by “club members” on Microsoft.com on topics related to Windows …

Some parts of Zune.net, including the Marketplace and (at least here) the ability to sign in to your Zune account from the Zune software are down as of this morning.  A message posted on the Zune support page confirms the …

This weekend marks the Golden Globe awards, film and television awards presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and marking the beginning of the entertainment awards “season”.  Bing and Windows Phone are getting in the act, and will show …

Last fall Google CEO  Eric Schmidt admitted that “our biggest competitor is Bing”, and with the Bing/Yahoo! search alliance firmly in place, numbers for Bing are increasing, or “growing like a weed”, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said …

So what IS up with the Bing/iPhone lovefest, anyway?  In this latest video, published today on YouTube (note: so Microsoft promotes 2 competitors with one fell swoop, nice!), this little video vignette follows an iPhone user around as he uses …

If you remember, Microsoft enthusiasts Long Zheng, Rafael Rivera, and Chris Walsh stirred up quite the hornets nest back last November when they unleashed “ChevronWP7”, a simple tool (accessed through what turned out to be “a coding error”) that …

Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, to their credit, the Windows Live team through Mike Schackwitz explained what happened in the Hotmail outage that occurred over the New Year’s Day weekend.  Basically, after running some automated stress …

The early returns are filtering in, and our personal first impressions, along with others from around the web, were, shall we say, underwhelming.  Nick Eaton at the Seattle PI, for one, was left wanting:

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The news is heating up from CES, and just posted over at Channel 9 is a special CES edition of Laura Foy’s Hot Apps, taking a look at new Xbox Live Apps for Window Phone 7:

Hot Apps for Windows …