Just a short post to let you know that yesterday I was awarded with a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Windows Live award. I am very pleased and grateful to have received this award. I am looking forward to the coming year being a MVP in Windows Live with so much expectation and excitement around [...]

This image comes from this tweet: MS flag flying half-mast at Microsoft UK HQ via @rmdrao on FB. Respect, Microsoft. http://goo.gl/UlIGE #stevejobs RIP Jobs.

You will be missed.

I was sent a tweet today by @vikman, Vkiram Dendi, who works at Microsoft Research on the various translation pieces of research, which informed me of what the big news was for Bing Translator. The tweet says: Bing Translator OData & OAuth, adding higher volume commercial tiers and 4 month free offer on everything! Big [...]

Here’s a list of what I hope and expect Microsoft to talk about over the next couple of days at the BUILD conference. Windows 8 (obviously) Expectations: – New Metro UI – New dev platform, new app package – New hardware announced and shown off – Windows Store to be announced and demoed – New [...]

Just for a bit of a laugh I have created some Bingo sheets for BUILD. You download some of the sheets if you want and then when watching the live stream of the 1st BUILD keynote tomorrow you can see if you can get any horizontal lines. Sadly there are no prizes from me on [...]

Microsoft Translator is a very useful service but little used service from Microsoft due to lack of exposure and exciting features from the company. However, if a single tweet is to be believed then we might be close to seeing Translator get more useful and more coverage. Vikram Dendi has tweeted stating that this week [...]

Here’s an interesting story, today Nokia and Microsoft have announced a new aspect to their partnership in which Microsoft will be bringing some its Office apps to Symbian by the end of the year. This will appear as software updates and will be called Microsoft Apps. These apps will be made available on Symbian Belle [...]

Well what a week it has been. It kicked off quite explosively with Google announcing that it planned to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5. That was shocking enough, the worlds biggest search company and probably the biggest web company will now be branching out into hardware. There’s no doubt going to be teething problems for [...]

Today Microsoft held it’s Worldwide Partner Conference in which it touted some impressive stats, such as 350 million licenses of Windows 7 sold to date. You can watch the whole event here. In addition to the statistics were some very nice Metro slides which I really hope Office will be releasing as a theme. Also [...]