In a blog post today, Facebook Security announced that it is widening the scope of programs to help its nearly 1 billion users combat malware. Up until now, Facebook would notify users of possible malware infections, and offer them …
Facebook offers Microsoft Security Essentials, McAfee to all users
Do you back up your files?
File backup solutions have been in the news recently, as the news filtered out last week that it’s the end of the road for Windows Home Server, but that there are a number of improvements coming for Windows 8 …
It’s The end of the road for Windows Home Server
Microsoft announced today its plans for Windows Server 2012, announcing four editions, and our old friend Windows Home Server did not make the cut. The editions, Windows Server 2012 Datacenter, Standard, Essentials, and Foundation, are a much simpler set …
Will a $40 upgrade price get Windows 8 to take off?
Today, our old friend Brandon LeBlanc took to the Windows Team blog to announce pricing for upgrade versions of Windows 8, and while they’re not quite in the free or $29 upgrade class of an Apple upgrade, they’re quite …
Windows Phone 7.8–more to come than just a Start Screen?
After months of speculation, Microsoft finally confirmed last week what many had suspected: current Windows Phones, even those running “Mango”, won’t be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8, which has specific hardware requirements (NFC, dual core CPUs, etc.) not found …
Exclusive: New Office 2013 application icons revealed (updated)
Just a month ago, LiveSide brought you the new Office 2013 logo (shown on the right), which brings the logo in line with other Microsoft logos such as Windows and Visual Studio, giving it a slight metro-style touch. However, with …
Exclusive: Microsoft Word 2013 to support built-in PDF editing
Those who had been using Microsoft Word for their daily word processing tasks knows that ever since Office 2010 the software included the ability to save Word documents as PDF format (and an official plug-in is available for Office 2007 …
Bing Venue Maps goes global, now available in over 30 countries
So it appears that the 165 terabytes of imagery data added to Bing Maps wasn’t the only update made to the mapping service. The Verge reported today that Microsoft has rolled out another update to Bing Maps which expanded the …
Microsoft.com website gets a new design
Microsoft had been giving all of its properties a fresh new look recently. From Windows Phone to Windows 8, from Bing to Xbox 360, and from Hotmail to SkyDrive, Microsoft had been incorporating its Metro style design into …
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