Yesterday I read an article on The Next Web about why Microsoft should buy the small company Qwiki and I have to say I fully agree with the article and actually have another reason why it should purchase the company; Kinect. Qwiki, for those that don’t know and I didn’t until yesterday, is a start [...]

I originally wrote this article for Typography and Squares but now think readers of MML will like this just as much. Regular readers of MML probably know I am a major Metro UI fan and its perhaps why I am also a big fan of the Zune software and the upcoming Windows Phone 7. I’m [...]

Yesterday, as you have probably heard, Microsoft tweaked and updated much of the Windows Live online services and brought some new features to the Office Web Apps. Its nice to finally see the new SkyDrive logo being used, hear of new improvements coming to Hotmail and I think that allowing people to embed PowerPoint and [...]

Yesterday I attended Microsoft’s “Xmas in July” event in the Saatchi Gallery in central London in which many of Microsoft’s consumer products were being demoed. I went to the event with my brother so that I could get a purely consumer perspective on what Microsoft had to show. First off my brother and I entered [...]

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 [...]

For the past month or so Windows has teamed up with Sky and toured universities around the UK informing student just how great Windows 7 is and how they can access Sky through their PC. This is a great way to increase mindshare of Windows but there is much more to Windows Access All Areas [...]

Engadget have just posted images, a video and their thoughts on the ExoPC Slate after being able to play with it at Computex and they seem to have come away quite impressed with the slate device. The device is slightly larger than the iPad but weighs about the same, has two USB ports, an SD [...]

So there I was sitting in my apartment one Thursday evening in late April, my desk lamp casting shadows around the room whilst I reviewed the news from the day with Microsoft announcing a competitor to Facebook’s Open Graph and Steve Jobs openly attacking Adobe’s Flash. When all of a sudden I heard a great [...]

There are some new images of the HP slate doing the rounds on the internet at the moment. The back of the device looks good with the triangular pattern which appears to actually be flush design as seen in the next picture. I think under the thumb is the USB port. In this image we [...]

Microsoft Advertising, who I believe are based in the UK, have posted a series of video interviews with Ashley Highfield, MD & VP Consumer & Online Microsoft. In the first video they discuss Bing in the UK and its current advertising campaign, the second video is about the MSN Video Player in the UK and [...]