Today Microsoft have announced quite a few pieces of information regarding games on several platforms and the release date for Kinect outside the US. First up Microsoft has announced that it is creating a new Age of Empires game, Age of Empires Online. This game will feature Game for Windows Live integration to allow social [...]

Despite Apple’s major announcement only being an hour away it hasn’t stopped Microsoft also announcing lots today at their tech ed North America conference and on the internet. I doubt many of you are particularly interested in the business side of the announcements, I know I don’t understand most of it and I couldn’t even [...]

Upon reading Twitter this morning I see that @lituus has been giving use more information about Microsoft and the future of its products. @Lituus has given us information before and as far as I can tell he hasn’t been wrong yet. The first piece of information was about Windows Phone 7 and how Windows Live [...]

A few months back I pointed out that Microsoft’s Bing had started using a new URL shortening address in a few tweets from the @fareologist account, the URL was binged.it. This post made quite a stir with people wondering if Microsoft was about to start offering this URL for consumers to use, as it turns [...]

Long Zheng has found another excellent video about a new product/service that Microsoft is working on. This time it comes in the way of a Microsoft sponsored project to bring a more visual, perhaps personal, twitter-like service to consumers. This service appears to use the Xbox Live service found on the Xbox and soon Windows [...]

As the Games Developer Conference is currently going on and news of the potentially of gaming on its products I thought I would make another wallpaper inspired by this image posted yesterday by @Ozymandias in this blog post from Microsoft’s booth at GDC10. Update: Added a second wallpaper with blue background Windows Live Tags: Windows, [...]

Back in January I wrote post analysing how far Microsoft has taken its 3 screens and the cloud strategy and gave “values” to how far Microsoft had gone in 4 different categories. Since the MWC announcement of 7 Series there has been quite a bit of news about what Microsoft has planned over the next [...]

Windows 7 RC users First things first, if you are using Windows 7 RC you’ll have probably noticed the OS keeps shutting down every two hours, this is a not a feature but a way to move you off the OS. You really should invest in the retail version of Windows 7, although I can’t [...]

Microsoft hint at HD2 getting Windows Mobile 7 From a recent interview with BetaNews it would seem Microsoft see the HD2 as a prime example of a device capable of running Windows Mobile 7 which demonstrates the new strategy Microsoft have for their mobile OS and partners. It seems increasingly more likely we will see [...]

I have just read an article on the New York Times website about Microsoft and HP working together to make a tablet PC that will be announced later today at the Microsoft CES Keynote. It is expecting to launch around the middle of the year, will have e-reader and multi-touch functions but it is unclear [...]