Windows Phone just made a number of announcements from the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in San Francisco today, including new options from middleware partners, new game titles, and more.

First up: the games.  A post on the Windows Phone Consumer …

You used to know pretty much when the big Microsoft conferences and events were coming – Mix in the spring, PDC in the fall.  Recently, though, as those conferences were phased out and melded into Build, it’s been a bit …

Yesterday brought us updates to some of the core apps for Windows 8, refreshing Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging, and today, there are more updates if you’re a Windows 8 user, this time for Xbox Music and Video:

Again, if …

As we reported, the core app updates for Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging are available a little earlier than tomorrow, that is, they’re ready to go right now.  If you don’t see them in the Windows Store, from the …

Today, Microsoft announced that by tomorrow (and maybe even tonight if you’re lucky), Windows 8 users will be offered updates for three of the “core apps” that shipped with the new version of Windows: Mail, Calendar, and People.  A post …

Like the Holy Grail, a workable Hotmail / Outlook.com Calendar has been elusive for longer than we care to remember, but some recent indications are that one may indeed be on the way.

If you caught Jamie Thomson’s comment on …

Sometimes you’re in the right place at the right time.  Sometimes, not so much.  Instead of bringing you what turned out to be a slew of Microsoft news today, we were dealing with the aftermath of what may have been …

Some Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, and SkyDrive services were down for as much as 16 hours yesterday, with an outage that started at 1:35pm PDT and wasn’t fully restored until this morning at 5:43 am PDT, according to a blog post by …

Google, to the surprise of no one, announced today that they were shutting down Google Reader, a service they’ve provided since it launched from Google Labs in 2005.  We initially (as we try to do with most things Google) shied …

Microsoft is going after its next generation of Office users in a big way, today introducing a new campaign aimed at getting US university students hooked on Office 365, SkyDrive, and Skype.  To promote the offers, Microsoft also today released …