Earlier today, Paul Thurrott let off some steam (granted, he’s never been very shy about that), ranting about the perceived notion that Microsoft has taken to copying Apple when it should be, in Thurrott’s estimation, copying Google instead. In making …

Today Microsoft officially announced that it will make Windows 8.1 available as a free update to all Windows 8 users beginning on October 18^th (in New Zealand, that is, it will actually be available on the 17^th in …

Microsoft’s 4^th quarter earnings came out yesterday, and while the news was mixed, the big bombshell was news that Microsoft wrote down $900 million on poor sales of the Surface RT, and its subsequent price slashing. Chief Financial Officer …

Remember the old proverb about blind men describing an elephant? That’s the situation we’re in when trying to get our heads around all the news swirling around Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, PRISM, and the extent of cooperation …

So the rumored Microsoft reorganization was officially announced today, coming down pretty much just how Bloomberg News and All Things D said it would. In case you missed it (or spent an enjoyable 12 hour day at work, like …

Today, on the Bing Search blog, Bing Director Stefan Weitz posted on some thoughts he and his team had while watching last week’s Google I/O keynote.  Weitz starts off by summing up what he and his team surmised was …

Some shots were fired back and forth today between Microsoft and Google in a series of exchanges both from the stage at Google I/O, and behind the scenes with some well placed leaks that come perilously close to crossing the …

Here we go again, another day, and another negative ad campaign coming from Microsoft, this time attacking supposed privacy problems with Android phones.  Carrying on with the “Scroogled” theme, where Microsoft, apparently unable to make much of a …

Yesterday Microsoft released their new updated version of an online calendar, offering a clean new interface and a basic set of features as part of Outlook.com. We called it a “nice little calendar”, and it is. What it is, …

Next week, Microsoft will begin the process of moving users off of their Windows Live Messenger clients and onto Skype, something that Messenger users are well aware of due to a barrage of recent email messages informing us of …