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Just days after I posted about the (not so) crazy rumor I heard about Microsoft readying a Zune HD2, WMPoweruser unearthed a job description that made it sound like such a device is, indeed, in the making. View the full article
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Microsoft has made available a near-final Release Candidate (RC) version of its Office Communications Server (OCS) product, which is being renamed Lync Server. View the full article -
Apple's new 4th generation iPod touch is an almost perfect portable media player, but it suffers from some frustrating and purposeful limitations, including most obviously its low quality cameras. View the full article
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In this week's mailbag, whether Windows Home Server "Vail" can back up itself, how not to write me an email, syncing folders between PCs, what can and can't be pinned to the Windows 7 taskbar, more missing features from Windows 7 Starter, and differing support on Windows Phone 7 for SharePoint and Windows Live SkyDrive. View the full article
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss whether Windows users should abandon Apple's openly antagonistic products, rumors of an international Zune services launch, Google instant search, Microsoft vs. Botnet, Mark Hurd's messy move to Oracle, and more. View the full article
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Here's a third set of useful Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts, including one I'd never heard of before: A way to automatically resize columns in Explorer's Details view. View the full article
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Windows 7 includes a new Jump List-like utility for finding and connecting to Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, and VPN connections. Unlike the similar UI in Windows Vista, this utility, called View Available Networks, does not require you to navigate through a series of dialogs and windows. View the full article
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To finish out the week, here are Microsoft news items from around the Web on Windows Phone 7, Azure, BPOS and more. View the full article
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Microsoft Research is working on a project known as “HomeOS,” which will provide a way to isolate non/less-technical users from the heterogeneous and often incompatible mess of devices they are attempting to network at home. View the full article
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As the 9to5 Mac site noted on September 10, it looks like Amazon.com has leaked again another Microsoft launch date and pricing. View the full article
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Stephen Elop, the President of Microsoft’s Business unit, is leaving Microsoft to become the CEO of Nokia. Who will become the new head of Office at Microsoft? View the full article
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Lync looks to be the new name of Microsoft’s next version of the Communicator client for Office Communications Server 14, Microsoft
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Microsoft officials posted an apology the evening of September 8 for three recent outages for customers of its Microsoft-hosted cloud applications. View the full article
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Microsoft is signing up testers, as of September 9, who want to kick the tires of the company’s next-generation CRM software, service and app store. View the full article
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I'm kicking off a new edition of the Digital Media Core series, starting with my pick for the one true video format, H.264, which is compatible across Windows 7, Zune, Xbox 360 and of course the Apple products. View the full article
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If and until Microsoft decides to deliver Office on new platforms and devices, the “best” way to get Office on more than just your Windows PC or Mac is via Office Web Apps. But is Office Web Apps really good enough? View the full article
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Microsoft has just hit the near-final Release Candidate (RC) 0 milestone with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 and is expecting to deliver the final code to its server OEMs before the end of September, according to information from private testers. View the full article
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Cloud hosting provider Rackspace rolled out on September 8 a new toolkit for customers who want to develop and deploy to its Cloud Servers for Windows service. View the full article
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Having spent a few weeks with a near-final version of Windows Small Business Server "Aurora," I see the advantages of this starter server product, but also a few bits that will be confusing for the market it targets. View the full article
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On September 7, I began receiving notes from several customers of Microsoft’s hosted Online Services — which include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Communications Online, Live Meeting and the BPOS bundle of these services — of new and troubling access problems. View the full article
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The third member of Microsoft’s new trio of small business servers, codenamed “Small Business Server 7″ is running behind the other two, and is now set to go to public beta by the end of September. View the full article
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In this week's mailbag, reader reaction to my iTunes 10 review and whether it's time to start ignoring Apple's products, a new Windows Phone 7-compatible version of the Zune PC software, whether Microsoft will ever make Zune for the Mac, the Windows Home Server add-ons I use (or, don't use), international Kindle usage, and whether Microsoft's online services will ever provide SSL access. View the full article
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Apple's iTunes software has been so bad for so long that it's getting hard to justify using this unwieldy software. But what are the alternatives to Apple's superior iPhone, iPod, and iPad products? And does leaving the company's i-ecosystem even make any sense? View the full article
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Windows Phone 7 RTM, the return of the Windows 7 Family Pack, Apple's meh music event, a new Xbox 360 controller and an Xbox Live price hike, the Amazon Kindle 3, and Windows Live Mesh. View the full article
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Windows 7 brings back a feature from older Windows versions: The ability to add and remove bundled applications and services on the fly. View the full article