Recently, our friends Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have been hard at work bringing us secrets from the early pre-beta builds of Windows 8, believed to have been released to a handful of OEMs and partners on Microsoft Connect just …

A couple of tidbits coming from our friend Travis at Entertainment Connected (www.enterconnected.com), looks like not only are there some new apps on the Zune Marketplace, but the Marketplace is showing up in more places, including India, …

So back when IE9 beta launched last year, Hotmail was quick to jump on the bandwagon and provided jumplist support in Windows 7. However with IE9, jumplist is only one part of the new  “Pinned Sites” feature. The other part, …

Today at a session at the Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco, Dharmesh Mehta is taking the stage to show off Hotmail’s expansion of ActiveViews, its in-the-web-client solution bringing live interactive JavaScript directly into emails from participating partners.

We …

Sorry that circumstances beyond our control (read: busy at real jobs) kept us from posting on this earlier, but we’ve had some recent comments regarding a post that appeared on LiveSide last weekend and then was removed, and we wanted …

IE9 was just released this week (you can get it here), and for many there will be a rush to upgrade.  In China, however, it’s a different story.

In preparation for the launch of IE9, a few weeks …

On Monday, Dina Bass from Bloomberg News reported that according to “according to a person familiar with the decision”, Microsoft will no longer be producing new Zune devices:

Microsoft will concentrate on putting Zune software onto mobile phones, such

The download links are now live, Tom at WinRumors.com has more:

Windows  7 (x86 version)

Windows 7 (x64 version)

Windows Vista (x86 version)

Windows Vista (x64 version)

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Just a reminder that today is IE9 release day, set to launch with a press event and live webcast at 5:30pm PDT, or 7:30pm local Austin, Texas time, as the Beauty of the Web launch event gets underway at SxSW:…

We reported last month about the possible rebranding of Zune into Microsoft’s existing brandings, including Windows Live. This week Mary Jo Foley spotted a Zune-related job posting from Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices (E&D) team – the same team who created …