Today is “Data Privacy Day” (what, you didn’t take the day off?), and Microsoft is celebrating by rolling out a blog post on how much they’ve been doing lately to protect our accounts, especially in Hotmail.

The blog post, on …

Alongside the news of Microsoft’s second quarter earnings (yup, they’re still making boatloads of money, except for Online Services – MSN and Bing – which are still losing boatloads) came an interesting little twist.  A small, ahem, “low latency, …

Microsoft silently updated their Windows Live Solution Center website today to have a more consistent look with their Windows Live properties. While not exactly adopting the "Wave 4" header used on the Windows Live web properties, it definitely uses the …

That’s exactly what Microsoft’s latest commercial is about – a documentary about the making of a recent flash mob in Seattle. In the two-minute video, it featured Microsoft’s most popular consumer brands, including Windows Live, Windows Phone 7, Video Kinect …

Microsoft FUSE Labs just rolled out an update to their Docs.com service, touted a “major backend update” with performance and stability improvements. In addition, this update also introduced support for 30 different languages (dialects) which allows users to …

Back in May 2010, just before the launch of Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4), Microsoft released a small QFE update for Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 which bumped the version number to 14.0.8117.416. The release targeted several bug fixes …

According to an article appearing over at Anand Khanse’s The Windows Club, The Windows Clubhouse will be shutting down this spring.  The marketing effort which was to feature blog posts by “club members” on Microsoft.com on topics related to Windows …

Some parts of Zune.net, including the Marketplace and (at least here) the ability to sign in to your Zune account from the Zune software are down as of this morning.  A message posted on the Zune support page confirms the …

The pricing and plans for Office 365 for Small Businesses and Enterprises were announced back in October last year, however details about Office 365 for Education – the replacement for Live@EDU – was vague. Today Microsoft announced at BETT …

Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, to their credit, the Windows Live team through Mike Schackwitz explained what happened in the Hotmail outage that occurred over the New Year’s Day weekend.  Basically, after running some automated stress …