Today Skype, Microsoft’s recent acquisition, has announced that users of its PC and Mac clients can now link their Facebook profile to their Skype account to allow users to video their Facebook friends. This builds upon the vide chat feature …
Microsoft Surface 2 available for pre-order
Microsoft has today announced that its 2nd generation Microsoft Surface, SUR40, manufactured by Samsung is now available for people (although only really businesses) to order in select countries around the world. The SUR40 is available for pre-order in 23 …
Microsoft releases minor Windows Phone update to fix Exchange and voicemail bugs
So the Windows Phone “Mango” update (Build 7720) was released not long ago to the public, and today reports are coming in that Microsoft is already rolling out a minor update to its Windows Phone OS, bumping the version number …
New Nokia Windows Phone accidently revealed in promotional video
Just as we reported that Nokia is planning to produce more higher-end phones in 2012, an official promotional video on Nokia’s YouTube channel (now removed) was spotted by MyNokiaBlog which showed a yet to be revealed Windows Phone device. …
Hotmail and Outlook: better together (with more changes to come?)
Yesterday, on the Inside Windows Live blog, Hotmail PM Dick Craddock posted on “10 Reasons to switch to Hotmail if you use Outlook”. We’ll let you read the post for all the details, but here’s a quick summary:…
Microsoft Flight: no release date, but another tease
After Microsoft Flight Simulator (and Aces Game Studio) was axed back in January 2009 as part of a cost cutting move, we’ve been getting occasional and fairly cryptic messages from something new from Games for Windows Live called “Microsoft Flight”, …
Digesting Ballmer: to place a period
This morning, we posted on a Business Insider report from the Microsoft Annual Meeting quoting Steve Ballmer in regards to Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Apparently the BI report caused quite a flurry since then, as Microsoft PR scrambled to …
Steve Ballmer confirms that Windows 8 is coming to phones
At today’s Annual Meeting of shareholders, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer went through the usual spiel on how well the company is doing, despite the stock price (which of course is what shareholders are most interested in). But then in …
Bing Australia drops beta tag, get new homepage video but still lacks features
We reported back in May this year that Bing Australia (http://www.bing.com.au) is planned to come out of beta “soon”. Well it had been almost 6 months and today Microsoft finally decides to drop the beta tag for its …
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