2012-02-13 14h51_13

Microsoft taps Valentine's Day as tool to promote, wait for it, Office Web Apps

Covering how Microsoft covers itself is always a fun game. The company’s ad campaigns tend to have extreme qualities. By this I mean that they are either fantastically good, or…

2012-02-13 13h25_14

Hotmail's War on Spam Sees Results

I’ve been critical of Hotmail in the past, given that I find Gmail to be consistently superior from both a product and usability standpoint. However, I now have to admit that Hotmail…

2012-02-13 12h30_43

Nokia's Valentine for AT&T

This post is just for fun. If you have your serious hat on, you have come to the wrong place.  The ever connected Paul Thurrott has posted two images to…

2012-02-13 11h36_58

Nokia Primes 6 Phones for MWC

If this rumor bears out, it will underscore how aggressively Nokia is working to reclaim its past glory and profits. Here’s the skinny: six new phones. Yes, six. Of course, they are…

2012-02-13 10h53_29

Firefox Going Metro for Windows 8

This post should not be a surprise, but it is certainly something nice. Firefox will not only come to Windows 8, it will do so in style. News broke today…

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Nokia's Lumia 800 Tipped for China Launch in March

Sources in China are reporting that the Nokia Lumia 800 will be launched in China in March, with the Windows Phone 7 device set to become available on China Telecom’s…

2012-02-12 19h07_37

One Week With Bing

Over the past week, I’ve used no search engine but Bing. Both on my phone, and on my computers, it’s been a Bing world. This week long test came to…

2012-02-10 14h57_44

LG's Next Windows Phone Looking Good

If you have only consumed our coverage of Windows Phone in the past few weeks, you might have come to the conclusion that we live in a strictly Nokia world….

2012-02-10 13h35_40

This Week at Microsoft

It’s been quite a week in the world of Microsoft, with news coming in on a dozen fronts. We’ve had a hard time keeping it all straight, so you must…

2012-02-10 12h32_26

Microsoft Taking its Stores to Canada

Microsoft’s retail store experiment is set to undergo a massive expansion in the next two years, with 75 stores new stores opening across the United States. News is out today that contains…

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Microsoft Shows Off a Peek at Office 15

Earlier today, Microsoft dropped a huge blog post with details about its Windows 8 for Arm plans, clearing up a lot of questions that people have had in the process….

2012-02-09 12h52_30

Microsoft's Cloud ERP Strategy

We’re going to take this in two steps. We’ll begin with what Microsoft is up to with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) products and the cloud, and then we’ll have…

2012-02-09 12h17_19

Microsoft Details Windows 8 ARM app Support

Today, Microsoft announced, formally, its plan for desktop app support on ARM-based Windows 8 machines. You aren’t going to like it. According to reporting on AllThingsD, only four desktop apps…

2012-02-09 10h45_53

Kinect for Windows: Not Ready for Normal use

The idea of Kinect for Windows is something that we have been bullish on here at TNW since before the hardware was officially announced. Motion and voice control, added to…

2012-02-09 10h04_39

Windows 8: Not Your Idea

With the Consumer Preview (beta) of Windows 8 set to be unveiled (and likely distributed) on February 29th, talk abounds concerning the upcoming operating system. On NeoWin, a trusted source…