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Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building?

cutler-avatarMary Jo Foley broke the news today that Microsoft legend Dave Cutler is no longer working on Azure, but has moved over to IEB (Interactive Entertainment Business), the home of Xbox and Zune, among others.

Cutler came to Microsoft in …

Microsoft UK holding “IE6 Migration Roadshow” for IT Pros

Microsoft UK has been sending out invitations to IT Pros across the country to encourage and educate IT Pros about moving off IE6. This campaign continues work done by Microsoft internationally to move users off IE6 and on to more …

Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo!–will we learn the fate of Microsoft’s Bing-Yahoo! alliance soon?

yahooIn a press release today, Yahoo! announced the resignation from the Board of Directors and “all other positions with the company”, effective today.  Here’s Yang’s statement:

"My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of

Can college students learn to collaborate using SkyDrive?

Early last November, Mike Torres and Omar Shahine, in a post on designing cloud storage services (read: SkyDrive), posted some telling statistics:

  • Today, less than 10% of college students consider using SkyDrive to access or share docs
  • Overwhelmingly, when students

An Xbox for the rest of us?

kinectA number of rumors have surfaced over the past few months about a next generation Xbox, and about Microsoft’s push into the living room using the popular gaming, and now entertainment system.  In fact, a few months ago we speculated

Microsoft and LG agree on a patent deal for Android and Chrome OS

Microsoft has announced that today they have signed a patent agreement with LG that that covers “LG’s tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome OS Platform”. Microsoft and LG are not sharing the details of …

Microsoft restructuring its marketing efforts

News is out today that Microsoft is apparently planning a restructuring of its marketing operations, according to an article in Bloomberg News.  While the move may cut “hundreds” of jobs, it is apparently aimed primarily at restructuring the “CMG”, …

In a year full of promise (and risk), Microsoft starts it off with a thud

tweetchoirThis was Microsoft’s last CES keynote, after a 14 year run of opening the consumer electronics event, and the new year, in January in Las Vegas.  In a year that promises Windows 8, renewed hope for Windows Phone with …

Watch Steve Ballmer’s last keynote live from CES

This time we’re not in Las Vegas, and not live blogging, but we’ll still be watching the CES keynote and you can too:

(the press conference is over, but you can watch the video on Microsoft News Center)

If …

SkyDrive now supports geotags with Bing Maps

SkyDriveWindows Live SkyDrive was only recently updated back in November last year to Version 16.2 (Build 2955) with better sharing and file management functionalities (see the official change log here). Today we noticed that the SkyDrive team had released …