Last month Microsoft announced a string of updates to be rolled out to Hotmail users within the next few months. The updates included Facebook chat support within Hotmail’s web messenger, sub-folders support, increase in attachment size limit to 25MB, new …

In an email to employees today, CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft:

…Ray and I are announcing today Ray’s intention to step down from his role as chief software architect. He

Boy this is a little nerve-wracking!  This morning we switched our blog over to WordPress, running a self-hosted site on our Windows Server.  We’ve been working behind the scenes for the last few weeks, and still have some work to …

A pair of blog posts on Inside Windows Live today are announcing that Messenger Connect, the set of development tools that allow you to bring Windows Live Messenger functionality into your website, has gone final.

First, Jeff Kunins announced that …

Windows Live enthusiasts received two separate but somewhat related emails this evening, one from Windows Live Spaces, “Changes coming to your Windows Live Space”, sets out the timeline for the demise of Spaces (and how you can migrate to WordPress.com…

Looks like the Zune guys slipped in a little bonus with the updated Zune 4.7 software, along with the more obvious links to the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace: now you can easily get to Windows Live Photo Gallery to edit …

With Windows Phone 7 and Kinect on the way, Xbox Live is gearing up for expansion, and today announced that 9 new markets will come online for Xbox Live:

• Russia
• Poland
• South Africa
• Greece
• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Brazil
• Colombia

On Friday afternoon word got out that Microsoft has shuttered Live Labs, the incubation project that brought us PhotoSynth, SeaDragon, Pivot, and more, “transitioning” the group to Bing.  The Live Labs website has been shuttered, too:

Live Labs’ founder Dr. …

If you’ve ever been to Microsoft, the lobby of most if not all of the buildings on campus contain some nice artwork, some comfortable chairs and couches, and a stack of copies of Directions on Microsoft.  The “independent IT …

When the IE9 beta launched last month, one of the features the IE9 team showed off was Pinned Sites and Jump Lists, using Hotmail as an example.  Only the Jump List for Hotmail wasn’t quite yet ready.

Our friend Vasudev …