A bunch of news sites popped up today posting interviews with Windows Chief Marketing Officer and CFO Tami Reller, one of the two women who took Steven Sinofsky’s place to run Windows at Microsoft. While Reller didn’t release much in …
Windows 8: Tami Reller goes on tour
Bing Apps for Office: extending Office 365 Premium
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Office 365 Home Premium, a $99/yr subscription service offering an updated Office suite along with extended SkyDrive storage (an extra 20GB, a $10/yr value). Now today in a blog post on the Bing Search blog, …
Google backs off on pulling Google Sync for Windows Phone
According to a post on The Verge, Google Sync, which Google announced last month would be no longer available for new Windows Phones beginning January 30th (today), is backing off on that pronouncement and has extended EAS (Exchange Active …
Windows Phone 7.8 rollout begins
Today on a blog post over at Nokia Conversations, Nokia has announced that Windows Phone 7.8 is ready for rollout and will be available for all Nokia Windows Phone 7.5 devices.
Windows Phone 7.8 brings Windows Phone 8’s three …
Does Microsoft have a future? (Part 2: Can Xbox save the company?)
In Part 1 of this post, we examined a post by analyst Adam Hartung posted last week in Forbes, and a subsequent interview with Hartung by Onoura Amobi from Windows8Update.com. Hartung believes that by coming late to …
Does Microsoft have a future? (Part 1: Adam Hartung’s post on Forbes)
About a week ago, analyst Adam Hartung, writing in Forbes, wrote in “Microsoft Still Can’t Find Its Future. Is It Too Late for the Company?” (if you want a glimpse at Hartung’s answer to his own question, the …
Skype adds support for unlinking Microsoft account by yourself
As we’re getting closer to the March 15 date for the discontinuation of the Windows Live Messenger service, Microsoft in encouraging users to migrate to their Skype service by linking their Microsoft and Skype accounts. However, as we have …
Nokia “Laser”, a Lumia 920 variant, coming soon to Verizon Wireless
As we are getting closer to Mobile World Congress, scheduled to be held in Barcelona during 25-28 February, 2013, news and rumors about Nokia’s upcoming line of devices are starting to trickle out. A few days ago we just learnt …
New Durango Info Leaked? Not So Fast
Earlier today, a self-proclaimed Microsoft employee alleged having access to detailed information about the upcoming new Xbox hardware. An email was sent out to major gaming outlets, which contained specs on both the new console, and a rumored companion tablet …
SkyDrive adds Live Tiles notifications
Looks like the folks at Microsoft might be learning how to write apps for their own operating system, finally. Today, in a post on the Inside SkyDrive blog, Mike Torres announced that the SkyDrive apps for Windows 8 and …
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