Microsoft is gradually jumping on the Social bandwagon by leveraging the power of Facebook. After launching Docs.com, Microsoft has launched a new social crossword game called – Team Crossword.

This theme has 18 amazing wallpapers of picturesque Japan and all of these wallpapers have been featured as Bing background images at some point of time, so you know are beautiful

Microsoft to launch next gen computers along with the next version of the Windows OS – Windows 8

So, Microsoft has finally released Project Natal under the name Kinect. A clip of Star Wars on Kinect is starting to create a lot of noise for the wrong reasons. Here is the clip:

Steve Ballmer – CEO of Microsoft addressed the Keynote session today at IndiMIX 2010 which took place in Mumbai – India.

In this article we will tell you about one such Language Translator tool based on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology using which you can quickly translate between four different languages.

I get a lot of junk email at my day job, usually from vendors that are trying to convince me that they are better than the competition, or just your typical spam. I usually empty my spam folder without reading anything but one heading did catch my attention (the title of this post). If you [...]

Find out how to save and restore tabs in Internet Explorer. Using this tip you can restore your last browsing session in Internet Explorer.

Microsoft has finally jumped into the HTML5 video codec war by announcing that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9, will go with H.264 support not the open-source Theora. H.264 and Theora are video codecs which are competing with one another to be the standard codec used in HTML5. While Theora is an open-source format; H.264 [...]

India’s Infosys Technologies has bagged a deal with Microsoft enabling it to manage Microsoft’s global internal IT services from now on.

We told you about Microsoft unveiling it’s all new Windows Phone 7 Series and the World Mobile Congress. Now lets get down to some fast app development work on the Windows Mobile 7 Platform using the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP. Here is a link to two quick how to guides for building a Hello [...]

The big theme at Microsoft’s MIX10 developer conference today was developing for Windows Phone 7 Series, and key to this was the new Silverlight 4. For the first time, Microsoft showed off third-party applications for the forthcoming phone platform, and talked about how third-party applications integrate with the platform. Read More Here

Microsoft has releases a preview of Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX conference. They did not say it explicitly, but by now it is pretty clear that its new browser will not be supported in Windows Xp. This is what Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch said: Building a modern browser requires a modern operating [...]

At its Mix Conference at Las Vegas, Microsoft gave a preview of what is to come with its next web-browser Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, which is a prototype to show how IE9 will handle the current web technologies and the new ones to come.

Microsoft — or perhaps someone else whom Microsoft definitely pays — has created howsoftwareisbuilt.com, where Microsoft apparently tries to promote itself and ‘embrace’ the FOSS world (here is the latest interview). In the homepage, the site also links to the company’s anti-GNU/Linux pages (“compare” site). How demeaning. Notice the footer which clearly states: “How Software is Built is [...]

Microsoft SharePoint is a collection of products and software elements that is generally used to host web sites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined applications such as wikis and blogs. Installing Sharepoint on your computer requires you to have an active Internet connection. The installation is seriously hampered [...]

The .NET Framework is a Microsoft offering and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform. It includes a large library of coded solutions to common programming problems and a virtual machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. Recently, ASP.NET preview version 4.0 was [...]

Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site. This was a reaction to an bug in VBScript that Polish researcher Maurycy Prodeus had revealed Friday. The vulnerability could enable hackers  to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft noted that hackers exploiting the VBScript flaw [...]

Microsoft is planning to introduce 59 new Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for both Windows 7 and Office 2010. The LIPs will be also available for Visual Studio 2010.In addition to this, Microsoft will also be provide customers with new Caption Language Interface Packs (CLIP) which will make it possible for the software’s interface to show [...]

Starting next week, Microsoft’s automated Windows Update service will present users with a “Web browser choice screen” as required by a settlement agreed with the European Commission’s competition department last year. Next week’s rollout will be available as part of a testing process to some users in the UK, Belgium and France. It will be rolled [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo announced this morning that both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have approved an agreement between the two firms to have Microsoft’s Bing search engine power Yahoo’s sites. Microsoft and Yahoo engineers will now start working together to adapt Bing for Yahoo. The partnership means Yahoo will selling premium [...]

Earlier, we reported about Microsoft’s official launch of its highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 Series. We were generally impressed with the new Zune interface that the overhaul has brought about in the OS. However, OS does contain some notable backward steps.

There is a good news and a bad news. The good news is that your business is expanding and growing at a pretty fast pace. And the bad news is that the pace is just too fast for your good old email solution to handle and deep down you already know that it just won’t [...]

It is believed that Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7, will be launched in the World Mobile Congress at Barcelona on 15 February. Microsoft has not officially made any announcement regarding the Windows Mobile 7. However, some details believed to be that of the said operating system has been leaked.