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Microsoft’s major announcement: “a whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft” the new Surface

microsofttablet0103At a hastily convened press event in Los Angeles, revealed this morning to be at Milk Studios, a fashion photography studio amazingly enough on Vista Street, Microsoft, after keeping tech pundits guessing for days, announced a new Microsoft branded tablet, …

Xbox Surface: Specifications of a new tablet device leaked

Xbox Surface SpecsOnly a few days after the alleged documentations of the Xbox 720, Kinect v2, and Kinect Glasses were leaked, today another document detailing the specifications for a tablet device named Xbox Surface has leaked. According to detailed obtained by Shifted2u

Xbox 720 document leaks: faked or old, it’s still very interesting (and now gone)!

the road aheadLots of speculation about what appears to be a leaked Xbox 720 slide deck that hit the web yesterday, apparently from August or September of 2010, laying out a roadmap for Xbox through 2015, and listing a number of new …

Skype for Mac and Linux updated; new Conversations Ads launched

Skype for Mac and Linux updated; new Conversations Ads launchedThis week, Skype announced the availability of both new Skype for Mac and Linux client, and the team also launched the Conversation Ads in Skype for Windows.

Skype for Mac 5.8

Today, Skype for Mac is updated to version 5.8 …

Windows 8 Mail app to get IMAP support

Mail appPerhaps one of the most criticized aspect of the new Metro-style Mail app in Windows 8 Release Preview is it’s lack of support for IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), a protocol still popular amongst several email providers. In the latest …

A mysterious Monday announcement and more Microsoft rumors: is there anything we DO know?

rumoursOne of Ray Ozzie’s favorite sayings is “we don’t know what we don’t know”.  For Microsoft followers, there’s a lot we don’t know right now, and the plot just keeps thickening.  The latest rumors focus around Microsoft’s apparent acquisition of …

Microsoft confirms Sina Weibo connection coming to Windows 8 and Windows Phone

Sina WeiboOver on the Building Windows 8 blog, Jeff Kunins, Group Program Manager on the Windows Live, posted details about the People app on Windows 8. If you had been using the People app on Windows 8, or have a …

Exclusive: A sneak peek at Office Web Apps Preview, coming with Office 2013 (and a new logo!)

Office 2013 LogoMicrosoft first announced details of its upcoming Office productivity suite, codenamed “Office 15”, back in January this year when the software suite reached its Technical Preview stage. Since then, various screenshots and details about “Office 15” has been revealed, including …

Exclusive: Even better screenshots of Metro-style Hotmail, or “Newmail”, leaked (now in English!)

HotmailYesterday we gave you a sneak peek of the new Hotmail, featuring an entirely new interface that is said to be “fast, fluid, and intuitive”, and of course the design has been changed to the all new Metro-style, consistent with …

More screenshots of Metro-style Hotmail leaked

So yesterday we just posted the first screenshot leak of the Metro-style Hotmail, today more screenshots from the service has leaked. German website WinFuture.de managed to get hold of several clear screenshots of the new Metro-style Hotmail, clearly showing how …