Microsoft is rolling out silent updates for Internet Explorer in the new year. But as usual this is a half-baked effort that will let too many people off the hook to do any real good.

Any IE users with [...]

The curtains have been pulled back on So.cl, and what has been revealed is another pointless social network. Much as expected. Why, Microsoft, why?

In July the first rumblings of a Microsoft-powered social network emerged, with Tulalip being inadvertently [...]

Nokia has opted out of any significant holiday phone sales.  [...]

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Grabbing yourself a free Windows Phone 7.5 handset could be as easy as tweeting. If you’re very, very lucky. And funny. And hateful towards Android.

Ben Rudolph AKA @benthepcguy is the Windows Phone evangelist for Microsoft. It’s his job [...]

It doesn’t take a genius to solve most tech issues. But it does require answers from people who know what they’re talking about. Therefore Microsoft’s Answer Desk trumps Apple’s Genius Bar.

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Microsoft has ported Windows Phone 7’s tiles to Xbox LIVE as well as a host of new [...]

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Microsoft is set to publically unveil the all new Windows 8 app store tomorrow in San Francisco. While the app store was briefly shown at the BUILD developer conference back in September, very little was [...]

Chrome is on the up, blah blah blah. Firefox is finished, blah blah blah. Internet Explorer is still number one, which cuts through all that bluster.

In the ongoing (and ever-lasting) battle of the Web browsers the big news of [...]

Microsoft may have left it too late to get into the tablet market. Unless it can pull something amazing out the hat in the form of Windows 8.

In Q1 2011, Forrester Research questioned people over their tablet [...]

No, Tellme isn’t a patch on Siri. But that fact doesn’t excuse the defensive stand Apple fanboys put up at the suggestion the two products are similar.

Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie caused controversy and consternation [...]

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In a blast from the past, the ongoing anti-trust suit against Microsoft by Novell is crawling along with Bill Gates recently testifying in court.  It appears that things are getting a [...]

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Microsoft recently held its annual shareholders meeting. Both Steve Ballmer [...]

A Microsoft social network? Yes, that’s exactly what the world needs right now. Because Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc. really aren’t enough. In July we saw the first signs that Microsoft was working on its own social network, with Microsoft Research teasing Tulalip at Socl.com. Now comes an update from The Verge, which claims to [...]