My friends over at Neowin have got a great article with pictures and a video of how Microsoft’s next store will be. This new store will be in the Mall of America and will sit right across from the Apple Store. I think this is the most interesting Store location yet. I can’t wait to [...]

Its been just over 2 weeks since I updated the look of My Microsoft Life and I want to know what feedback you might have. I have tweaked a few things this morning to improve the site a little. I do plan to add an archive page to the site soon to allow you find [...]

Over the 16 months that My Microsoft Life has been online I have received many comments about the look of the site, some good and some bad, and I have noted what needs to be changed. What I didn’t want to do was just add new features and tweak the way things worked and looked [...]

Yesterday you probably heard that Microsoft has a new motto, “Be What’s Next”, and some people wrongly thought that the ribbon-like icons used in the accompanying video at the Microsoft Global Experience (MGX) for the new motto indicated that Microsoft was about to rebrand itself. Microsoft told Engadget this is not true. Interestingly, Long Zheng [...]

During the week I was unable to blog but as you might have seen there was a fairly large leak of what Microsoft has planned for Windows 8. There are some very interesting possible new features for Windows 8 but at the same time this leak could have some negative implications for Microsoft. I shall [...]

Microsoft has been hard at work on their endeavour into the health sector but so far the service has only been open to those in the US. However, Microsoft, in partnership with Nuffield Health, are now bringing HealthVault to the UK as part of the “life and style” section of MSN. This service, called My [...]

From information that Francisco Martin Garcia has provided it would appear that we can expect to see a Beta of Internet Explorer 9 in August. The beta will see the full functionality of IE9 and not just a developers preview, this should mean we also see the UI Microsoft have chosen for the browser. I [...]

Today marks this blog’s first birthday and what a year it has been. I have been able to bring news about the first images of Bing, the Zune HD, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Home Server whilst also reporting the news about Windows 7, Xbox and Windows Live. I have enjoyed talking to many of [...]

Just thought I should let my US readers know about this. .bbpBox15057933569 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/46878342/twitter-MSSTORE-1280.jpg) #ffffff;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Hey tweeps! Hope you’ll come to our store opening in Lone Tree, CO on 6/10. Rob Dydrek [...]

Microsoft have just launched an alpha release of another new social network oriented service called Project Emporia which “allows users who may not otherwise use social networks to get information on topics from the public Twitter feeds”. It works by allowing anyone to view a stream of Tweets from a specific “lens” or category using [...]