Yesterday at the Silverlight FireStarter Event Scott Guthrie announced Silverlight 5. Not as in “It’s here now, go get it!”, but announced as in telling that a Silverlight 5 beta will be available in the first half of next …

Microsoft has launched a reward program for Xbox Live subscribers: Xbox Live Rewards

Players can earn reward points for tasks such as purchasing or renewing an Xbox Live Gold membership, buying Marketplace content, taking surveys and participating in Xbox promotions. …

Whilst everybody is getting more and more into the Holiday spirit, MSN is already one step ahead. They are thinking about getting you into shape (after all those lovely Holiday meals?)! In partnership with Rodale, the authoritative source for fitness, …

Thanks to a tip from our friends at Wikikou.fr, we learn tonight that there’s been a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering – meaning a bug fix update, not UI changes) for almost all of Windows Live Essentials, updating most of …

With Windows Phone 7 numbers going through the roof, and the devices being able to be very easily unlocked, we thought now was the best time ever to jump on the huge bandwagon that is Windows Phone 7 …

Microsoft unleashed quite a bombshell last September when it announced that it would be shutting down its blogging platform, Windows Live Spaces, and making a migration to open source WordPress.com available to anyone wanting to continue their blogs.  Since then, …

Windows 7 just had its first birthday, and Windows Live Wave 4 was fully released not long ago, but the Windows and Windows Live division at Microsoft had already started its planning stages for the upcoming Windows 8 and Windows …

FUSE Labs is best known for their Docs.com project bringing Office Web Apps to Facebook users, and for those readers who had been following, they also started up Kodu, a very simple-to-use game programming language, as well as Bing …

More than a month ago, Microsoft announced the new Office 365 – the cloud-based version of its Office, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync solutions, which is intended to replace the current BPOS, Office Live Small Business, and Live@EDU offerings. While most …

Windows Home Server has been a much appreciated but perhaps under-used product, and its fans have been anxiously awaiting Version 2 of the product, code-named “Vail”.  Well, maybe now not so much.  A blog post this morning on the Windows …