Thanks to a tip from our friends at Wikikou.fr, we learn tonight that there’s been a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering – meaning a bug fix update, not UI changes) for almost all of Windows Live Essentials, updating most of …

Bing continues to blur those 10 blue lines, creating subsites within Bing that are more destinations than portals.  The latest is an Overview page for music artists, containing on a single page a description of the artist, a list of …

Microsoft unleashed quite a bombshell last September when it announced that it would be shutting down its blogging platform, Windows Live Spaces, and making a migration to open source WordPress.com available to anyone wanting to continue their blogs.  Since then, …

While Microsoft has been quick to tout its early sales of the Kinect gaming controller for Xbox (update: right on schedule, Microsoft announced today that 2.5 million Kinects have been sold),  we haven’t heard a peep really about Windows …

Yesterday’s announcement on the Windows Home Server blog about the decision to pull Drive Extender functionality from Vail/Aurora/Breckenridge is just yet another example of how Microsoft, while perhaps doing the right thing in the short term for their business, continues …

Windows Home Server has been a much appreciated but perhaps under-used product, and its fans have been anxiously awaiting Version 2 of the product, code-named “Vail”.  Well, maybe now not so much.  A blog post this morning on the Windows …

A blog post on the Bing Search blog this morning points out some new features in Bing Movies (although not, apparently, a way to embed MSN Video files into WordPress), offering up a pretty seamless experience from searching for a …

Last week Internet Explorer released the latest Platform Preview (#7), and boasted of some new SunSpider test results to go along, showing IE9 PP7 as the fastest browser available in terms of JavaScript, according to the SunSpider results.  Just to …

Bing Maps has rolled out a new look today to coincide with the “AJAX V7 Control”, eliminating the need for Silverlight to view enhanced Bird’s Eye map views.  Silverlight remains a big part of Bing Maps, powering Map Apps, …

By now if you’ve been following the antics of Windows Phones, you’ve heard about the intricacies of Windows Phones and SD cards, and the warnings to wait until “Windows Phone 7 compliant” cards are made available to (at …