With the official news yesterday that IE9 will go final and be available for download on March 14th, complete with a blowout party at SxSW in Austin, Microsoft’s Mix web development conference added Dean Hachamovitch to the keynote, joining Scott …

18 new countries in South America are now able to access Office Web Apps, completing the worldwide rollout of the online versions of popular Microsoft Office applications that began nine months ago.

The Office Web Apps are now live in

When we last talked about FarmVille, we were a little late with our reporting (only *ahem* a year late), but these numbers, we assure you, are fresh: as FarmVille and even its newer counterpart CityVille fade in popularity on Facebook, …

All indications are that Microsoft is set to release a final version of IE9 on March 14, complete with a “Beauty of the Web” party at SxSW.  It should be a good party for the IE team, who have been …

Remember last year when we revealed a few slides on Windows 8 which showed that Microsoft’s next operating system might be getting cloud-based identity and roaming settings? It appears that the screenshots of an early build of Windows 8 that …

Our friend Long Zheng from iStartedSomething.com just posted a series of Australian advertisements for Windows 7 and Windows Live – featuring the winner of Miss Australia 2006 Erin McNaught. Check out the videos below of the latest advertisement campaign from …

If you’ve been following Windows Live at all, you knew, like us, that there wasn’t much hope for Windows Live Spaces, and we were genuinely relieved when we found out that Windows Live had worked out an agreement with …

Looks like we’re seeing Microsoft ramp up its advertising efforts across the board and around the globe: Windows Phone has taken over Times Square, the Microsoft Store has a new look, and in the UK, a new campaign …

Windows Live Mesh reached an important milestone today: it’s now used to connect over 5 million devices.  Over 3 million users are syncing some 2.2 petabytes (1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes, 1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes), or over 2,306,867.2 gigabytes…

We’ve been trying to keep our Windows Live Calendar current with upcoming events, and it’s definitely filling up as we head into spring.

First up is the Microsoft MVP Summit – LiveSide started when a group of us met through …