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Combining guesswork with analyst estimates, TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft may spend as much as a billion dollars to launch and develop Windows Phone 7 in its first year. I bet that number is low, if anything. View the full article -
Microsoft officials are acknowledging that they are planning to add ActiveSync support to Hotmail on August 30. View the full article
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The analysts at Gartner Inc. are warning that business migrations from Windows XP and Windows 2000 to Windows 7 in the next couple of years could create budgetary and resource burdens on IT shops. View the full article
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Hotmail will soon support Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) for over-the-air, push access to your Hotmail-based email, contacts, and calendar on supported mobile devices like the iPhone and Windows Phone! View the full article
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Microsoft announced general availability of the final version of Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP) 1 on August 25. View the full article
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Microsoft Russia’s press site, on August 25, posted information and a photo that seem to be connected to the coming IE 9 beta. (The site has since pulled their post, but I grabbed the information and screen shot in the nick of time.) View the full article
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windows xp Microsoft Security Essentials On Xp - Fails To Update
AWS replied to Nicki's topic in Operating Systems Help & Support
Check the system time. Maybe you inadvertently set it ahead. This would cause the update service to fail because it would think you already have the update installed. -
Welcome to the community Nick. I'm sure we will be able to help you when you need it.
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Microsoft has added some of missing and requested features to its Webified version of Office, known as Office Web Apps. View the full article
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On the surface, Intel's blockbuster $7.86 billion purchase of security firm McAfee seems crazy. But if you dig a bit deeper, an interesting possibility for the future emerges. Assuming, of course, that Intel doesn't screw it up. View the full article
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Another week, another Windows 7 slate is cut from the list of those slated (pun intended) to ship in time for this holiday season. View the full article
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It was 15 years ago today, August 24, that Microsoft launched Windows 95. Since then, a lot has changed, to put it mildly. View the full article
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Microsoft officials announced August 23 said there have been 300,000-plus downloads of the beta of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools to date. View the full article
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Xbox Live games on Windows Phone 7, new SBS "Aurora" and WHS "Vail" preview releases, Steve Ballmer the overachiever, and why Microsoft's Arc Touch Mouse is no Tragic Macpad. View the full article
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Anyone can use Windows 7's libraries feature, but if you want to really master libaries, you need to know how to customize them, use custom library view styles, create your own custom libraries, and, if you've gone too far, how to get back the default library configurations. View the full article
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My extensive, multi-part review of Windows Live Essentials 2011 has been completely overhauled to cover new features in the near-final beta refresh release. View the full article
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In what might be my most exhaustive Feature Focus article yet, I cover one of the most eagerly-awaited features in Windows 7 yet. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Sticky Notes. :) View the full article
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There are reports that a new early build of Microsoft’s Office 15 have escaped the Redmond halls. More interesting than the mere existence of these pre-alpha build, however, is another mention of a new application that will become part of Microsoft’s next-generation Office suite. View the full article
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This week, Microsoft unveiled its secret weapon in the war against iPhone and Android: Xbox Live support on Windows Phone 7 with a launch day lineup of over 60 games. Move over boys, there's a new mobile gaming king in town. View the full article
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What’s this ‘personal cloud’ that Microsoft execs are promising will be all the rage later this year? Here’s my attempt to figure out whether it’s just rhetoric, rather than reality. View the full article
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Microsoft is making the first beta of its LightSwitch development tool available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers today, according to an August 19 Microsoft blog post. View the full article
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We're swapping homes with a family from Germany this month. Here's a quick look at the must-have technology products I can't live without when away from home for an extended time. View the full article
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Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft’s Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to customers by 2011. View the full article
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One of Microsoft’s biggest selling points for its cloud platform is that developers can use .Net, Visual Studio and other programming tools they already know to write Azure applications. But that’s not the end of the story. View the full article
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When Microsoft and Yahoo announced their search partnership plans just over a year ago, there were a number of unanswered questions about Yahoo’s future search-development efforts. On August 17, Yahoo answered a number of those questions via a blog post on the Yahoo Developer Network site View the full article