Microsoft Boosts Windows 7 Support Window
Use Windows 7? Do you love it? Never want to let it go? If so, we have good news, as Microsoft is granting you an extra five years of extended…
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Microsoft Wants Hyper-V Back in OpenStack
Here’s a fact: Microsoft wants its hypervisor (or virtual machine manager, if you must) to be an option in OpenStack, a Linux-based Infrastructure-As-A-Service computing project that is driven by RackSpace and…
Microsoft Confirms SkyDrive Upgrades
As we reported some days past, Microsoft has big plans for its SkyDrive cloud storage product. Today in an announcement on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft confirmed desktop sync,…
Microsoft Extends Consumer Vista Support
For reasons yet unknown, Microsoft has lengthened the support interval for the consumer editions of its Windows Vista product to 2017. Extended consumer support now mirrors business and enterprise support, which has…
Microsoft Extends MACH Carrier Billing Deal, Signs TELUS
Maintaining its carrier billing service on Windows Phone smartphones, Microsoft has today signed an extended agreement with direct operator billing service MACH, ensuring consumers are able to purchase apps and…
The Life and Death of a Smartphone Rumor
Nokia’s Lumia line of smartphones is new enough that if you have some of its component handsets mentally twisted, fret not. Here’s the straight dope: the Lumia 710, 800, and 900…
Localized WP Tango Could Hit China in March
A localized version of the Windows Phone 7.6 operating system, known as ‘Tango’, is set to arrive in China in March through devices from at least four manufacturers, according to local reports….
Evidence of SkyDrive for Windows and Mac, Extended Plans
Microsoft has been making huge improvements to its cloud storage service SkyDrive lately. Over the past year it has integrated it into Windows Phone Mango, improved its capabilities significantly with…
Microsoft in Early Talks for new Music Service
We can only barely understand this. Instead of working to update its Zune platform of music, software, and service, Microsoft is said to be in talks with record labels to build a…
Bing's Coming Windows Phone Upgrades
You can’t call Bing an ‘app’ on Windows phone, as it is integrated into the larger platform itself. That doesn’t mean that it can’t be updated, however, and the Bing…
Reality Check: Windows Phone is Tiny
Well, here’s a slap in the face for fans of Microsoft’s nascent mobile line: it sells less units per quarter than Samsung’s Bada platform, according to Gartner. What’s that? You’ve…
This Week at Microsoft
This was a normal week for Microsoft: nothing too crazy, yet issues could be found on all four burners. We were kept busy, but our hair never ignited. We love…
The Windows Logo Gets A Massive Redesign
The rumors that surfaced earlier this week were true: Windows has a new logo. If you take a look at Windows’ logo designs on a timeline, you’ll see that a…
CloudOn Brings Microsoft Office to Your iPad
Whether you think Microsoft Office is a heap of junk or the best thing since sliced bread, there’s no escaping it. Word, Excel, PowerPoint…and all the rest…are simply a way…
Microsoft Blasts Google Over iPhone Tracking, Touts IE9
With Google acknowledging that it utilised features in its services to bypass Apple’s built-in security measures in its Safari mobile browser to track users, Microsoft has taken the opportunity to…
