A new post on the Inside Windows Live blog today brings us news of some new features for SkyDrive, including file upload and file management changes, expanded “right-click” functionality, HTML5 support for file uploads (meaning drag and drop file uploading …

Following my meeting with some of Microsoft UK’s Hotmail team last month it has been decided that the event was a great platform to provide feedback to the company through the questions and feature requests I took with me. Microsoft …

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired California-based company VideoSurf, which provides video discovery technology to customers and enables them to quickly and accurately find the video they want. Their technology is pretty unique in that it doesn’t solely rely …

Microsoft’s Xbox 360’s Kinect motion sensor had been one of the best selling tech gadget in the recent years, even breaking Guinness World Records for the fastest selling consumer electronics device within a 60-day period. But it appears Microsoft’s …

What a strange, but very interesting document!  Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres give us a “state of cloud storage” post where they admit:

• Less than 10% of college students even consider using

It’s official this time, both The Verge and Kotaku reported that Microsoft has confirmed the release date of the upcoming Xbox 360 Fall 2011 dashboard update – December 6. According to The Verge, the launch will be a global launch …

Today it was noticed by @CB_27 on Twitter that Hotmail has updated the image on the sign in page of the email service. This new image advertises the mobile apps and experiences available for Hotmail on a variety of platforms. …

Microsoft seems to have made some changes to its Messenger Social feeds lately. A LiveSide reader Matt Krantz tweeted us the following tip indicating that SkyDrive updates, including documents and photos, are no longer showing up on their friend’s Messenger …

Hotmail has an updated website and Hotmail Help Center.

At the Help Center you will not only find How-to articles like for example:

• Get mail from other email accounts in Hotmail
• Add contacts from other services
• Use different fonts

There’s a report out today from Sina Tech, spotted by The Next Web, that states that Microsoft is going to building a new research and development (R&D) centre in Beijing. This new centre will be dubbed the “Microsoft …