Here’s one from the “saw this coming from a mile away” department.  After “scaling back” the user uploaded video service last month, today an email confirmed that the other shoe has dropped, and that MSN Soapbox will be closing.  …

Microsoft got some open source press yesterday when it submitted some 20,000 lines of device driver code to Linux, and today Microsoft is releasing a plug in for the open source classroom content management system Moodle.

Moodle, based …

The Office Live Workspace team blog just announced two exciting news for Mac users using Microsoft Office and Office Live Workspace. Firstly, Microsoft Document Connection for Mac was just released as part of Office 2008 for Mac SP2 to access …

As part of the new Wave 3 update, Windows Live Hotmail was announced back in 2008 to have “ever increasing storage” – according to the mailbox size at the end of each month. Some call it “unlimited storage”, but Microsoft …

In a post on the Popfly Team Blog the team just announced that Popfly, which never got out of beta, will be discontinued on August 24.

We want to thank everyone who registered for and used Popfly. We’ve been

We already told you about a bit of Twitter in Bing, but the team took it a step further. They’ve partnered up with with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets.

BingTweets fuses Bing search results with real …

Whilst we are playing with the Office 2010 Technical Preview, there is more news coming out of/to be announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference.

Windows Mobile Marketplace

The following will be announced regarding Windows Mobile Marketplace today:

1. …

Deep Zoom Composer has yet again been updated, this to coincide with the release of Expression Blend + SketchFlow RC and Silverlight 3.

Download Deep Zoom Composer

As always, please uninstall all existing versions of Deep Zoom Composer …

At the Worldwide Partners Conference in New Orleans today, Microsoft announced a “major milestone and Technical Preview” for Office 2010, with “tens of thousands” of beta invitations to the technical preview going out beginning today (just received ours …

According to a report in the UK Telegraph, Microsoft is set to launch a new music service this month.  The new service “will offer users the chance to stream music for free and also download to own”.  According to …