In a blog post on the Outlook.com blog today, Microsoft has announced that it’s rolling out Google chat integration, allowing you to chat with your Google friends from Outlook.com.  The feature works across your Outlook.com inbox, as well as …

Sometime today Microsoft has updated Windows Essentials 2012, the suite formerly known as Windows Live Essentials, increasing the build number from 16.4.3505.0912 to 16.4.3508.0205.  All of the suite products appear to have been updated (although we’ve given up on …

A couple of tweaks to announce for Microsoft products today, for SkyDrive and Bing.  First up is news of an improved SkyDrive photos experience, including an “all photos view”, better upload performance, and new layout thumbnails.  A post on the …

Surface Pro will be available for purchase in Hong Kong on May 17. Microsoft HK announced it at its official website. There will be a launch event at the Windsor House, and first 150 customers who buy Surface Pro …

The last time Microsoft updated their Office Web Apps service was back in February, when they brought new editing capabilities to its suite of Web Apps. Today on the official Office team blog, Microsoft announced that several new features …

Mary Jo Foley first started talking about Windows “Blue” as a refresh to Windows 8 and beyond, (incorporating refreshes to Windows Phone and Windows Server, too) way back last August, but it’s taken until today for Microsoft to begin …

This morning, our old friends Omar Shahine and Mike Torres posted on the Inside SkyDrive blog with some new numbers related to SkyDrive, announcing that the service has reached 250 million users (the exact quote is “over 250 million people …

Today Microsoft announced that they’ve completed the transition of all 300 million Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com (while apparently adding another 100 million users, as Outlook.com is boasting 400 million active accounts according to today’s Outlook Blog post).  The move …

Only six weeks after starting an upgrade process to bring all 300 million + Hotmail users over to Outlook.com, the newly rebranded and refreshed consumer online email experience, Microsoft announced today in a blog post over at the Outlook …

This has been a big week for Skype announcements.  On Monday, Microsoft announced a beta of Skype for Outlook.com, coming first to the UK, then to the US and Germany “in the coming weeks”, and the rest of the …