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Hotmail Is About To Get Much Cooler

Hotmail Is About To Get Much Cooler

Hotmail was the first widespread webmail service, but these days it lags behind Google's Gmail and even Yahoo Mail. But...

Google Serves Microsoft on Their Official Blog

Google Serves Microsoft on Their Official Blog

The now Internet powerhouse Google used its blog today to call out Microsoft on its new open source 2010 Office...

Microsoft Office 2010 is Free, Allowing More Users Than Ever to Make Ugly Powerpoint Presentations

Microsoft Office 2010 is Free, Allowing More Users Than Ever to Make Ugly Powerpoint Presentations

Hey, you know Microsoft Office, that thing you've been downloading illegally for free all these years? It would seem that...

Microsoft Spends 2x More than Apple on Advertising

Microsoft Spends 2x More than Apple on Advertising

Silicon Valley Insider had a funky lil' chart to show us today; a chart that reveals that Microsoft spends twice...

IE Quickly Becoming Why-E

IE Quickly Becoming Why-E

Microsoft once dominated the world of internet browsing, but yesterday their market share dropped to below 60% for the first...

Nokia and Microsoft Team Gang Up On RIM

Nokia and Microsoft Team Gang Up On RIM

An unlikely union, Nokia & Microsoft today announced the first fruit of their slightly unusual union, Communicator Mobile, software which...

Bill Gates Says Microsoft Has Many Tablet Plans

Bill Gates Says Microsoft Has Many Tablet Plans

Microsoft may recently have scrapped its plans for the Microsoft Courier device, but that doesn’t mean the company is out...

Microsoft Sides With Apple On Flash

Microsoft Sides With Apple On Flash

After Steve Jobs very publicly and thoughtfully bitch slapped Adobe with his Thoughts on Flash essay, the web erupted in...

Microsoft Is Broken: Time To Pick Up The Pieces

Microsoft Is Broken: Time To Pick Up The Pieces

Microsoft is in big trouble. The company hasn't been a force of innovation for what seems to be a decade...

Zune Users Overjoyed At Jailbreak News

Zune Users Overjoyed At Jailbreak News

Listen up, Zune fans: All seven of you can now jailbreak your Zune and install one of the tens of...

Office 2010 Stumbles Towards The Finish Line

Office 2010 Stumbles Towards The Finish Line

Lovers of barely functional, bloated and outdated software rejoice: Microsoft Office 2010 has been released to manufacturing and could be...

Nokia Trumps Microsoft: Shows Three Social Messaging Handsets

Nokia Trumps Microsoft: Shows Three Social Messaging Handsets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JxJUJ-8o0M Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s introduction of its very own handheld social networking and messaging device, giant Finnish...

Live Event: Microsoft Unveils Pink Thing!

Live Event: Microsoft Unveils Pink Thing!

Microsoft is currently holding a live media event in San Francisco to unveil a new product, widely believed to be...

5 Reasons Microsoft Doesn’t Suck

5 Reasons Microsoft Doesn’t Suck

1. Bing The most popular thing to do on the Internet is to use a search engine. Bing has actually...

4 Amazing Gadgets That Will Obliterate the iPad

4 Amazing Gadgets That Will Obliterate the iPad

If there is one thing that is clear, it is that the iPad has the hype. But it is also...

Microsoft Launches Own-Brand Smartphones April 12

Microsoft Launches Own-Brand Smartphones April 12

Microsoft is about to introduce its very own attempt at smartphone, its own-branded phones, hitherto developed by the top secret...

The War of Simplexity with Modern-Day Gadgetry

The War of Simplexity with Modern-Day Gadgetry

We are at war! At war with simplexity — this is where modern day devices are experiencing an identity crisis over...

Microsoft Courts the Geek Set With Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft Courts the Geek Set With Internet Explorer 9

If you are committed geek, using Internet Explorer is a bit like a fashionista wearing something from last year’s line:...

Microsoft Wants to Get Emulated

Microsoft Wants to Get Emulated

Following Monday’s look at Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has released emulation software for those who want to explore the new...

Microsoft releases three HD webcams

Microsoft releases three HD webcams

Today Microsoft will be releasing three new HD webcams for Notebooks. Yes, you read that correctly. Now you can skype...