Sometimes you’re in the right place at the right time. Sometimes, not so much. Instead of bringing you what turned out to be a slew of Microsoft news today, we were dealing with the aftermath of what may have been …
Lots of Microsoft news today. We get blindsided
Skype for Windows Phone updated: People Hub integration is back
Back in January, citing “issues with device stability”, Skype for Windows Phone temporarily disabled Windows Phone People Hub integration, promising to work with the Windows Phone team to get it back. Well they have, and today it’s back as …
Can the mobile landscape change?
Speaking to the Australian Financial Review, Blackberry’s CEO Thorstein Heins this week had a few choice things to say about the current mobile landscape, including his thoughts on Apple’s leadership in the mobile space, and how fleeting that may be:…
Yesterday’s Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive outage? Hotmail got too hot
Some Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, and SkyDrive services were down for as much as 16 hours yesterday, with an outage that started at 1:35pm PDT and wasn’t fully restored until this morning at 5:43 am PDT, according to a blog post by …
Blogs We Like(d): Google shuts down Reader, CalDAV
Google, to the surprise of no one, announced today that they were shutting down Google Reader, a service they’ve provided since it launched from Google Labs in 2005. We initially (as we try to do with most things Google) shied …
Microsoft goes after students: Office 365, SkyDrive, Skype free offers
Microsoft is going after its next generation of Office users in a big way, today introducing a new campaign aimed at getting US university students hooked on Office 365, SkyDrive, and Skype. To promote the offers, Microsoft also today released …
Windows 8 core app updates on the way
After years of developing and evolving what became known as Windows Live, Microsoft turned a corner with the release of Windows 8, dropping the Windows Live and Zune brands in Windows 8 and moving to a set of unbranded and, …
A new History view from Bing
It looks like Bing.com has updated its History view sometime in the last week or so. As usual, we’re never sure what has been widely updated and what is part of a local trial, but at least here, for this …
Exclusive: Microsoft account renaming feature to make a return with enhanced “aliases”
When Microsoft introduced the new Outlook.com last year, it brought the ability for users to rename their Microsoft account to a new one. In doing so, you’ll bring everything associated with your account – like your emails, contacts, SkyDrive files, …
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