Microsoft announced today its plans for Windows Server 2012, announcing four editions, and our old friend Windows Home Server did not make the cut.  The editions, Windows Server 2012 Datacenter, Standard, Essentials, and Foundation, are a much simpler set …

Today, our old friend Brandon LeBlanc took to the Windows Team blog to announce pricing for upgrade versions of Windows 8, and while they’re not quite in the free or $29 upgrade class of an Apple upgrade, they’re quite …

After months of speculation, Microsoft finally confirmed last week what many had suspected: current Windows Phones, even those running “Mango”, won’t be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8, which has specific hardware requirements (NFC, dual core CPUs, etc.) not found …

Just a month ago, LiveSide brought you the new Office 2013 logo (shown on the right), which brings the logo in line with other Microsoft logos such as Windows and Visual Studio, giving it a slight metro-style touch. However, with …

Those who had been using Microsoft Word for their daily word processing tasks knows that ever since Office 2010 the software included the ability to save Word documents as PDF format (and an official plug-in is available for Office 2007 …

So it appears that the 165 terabytes of imagery data added to Bing Maps wasn’t the only update made to the mapping service. The Verge reported today that Microsoft has rolled out another update to Bing Maps which expanded the …

Microsoft had been giving all of its properties a fresh new look recently. From Windows Phone to Windows 8, from Bing to Xbox 360, and from Hotmail to SkyDrive, Microsoft had been incorporating its Metro style design into …

It’s finally here. After Microsoft published details about its Windows Phone Commercial Refresh 3 update, codenamed “Tango” (build 8773), last week, the company has finally let the flood gates open and started to push the update to devices around the …

Rumors had been floating around since mid-June that Microsoft would be acquiring Yammer, the leading enterprise social network used in 85% of the top 500 Fortune companies. The rumor started off as an “overheard” in a nearby café near …

Today, on the Bing Maps blog, Microsoft announced its largest aerial satellite and Global Ortho image release ever, totaling 165 terabytes of new imagery live now on Bing Maps.  This single update is larger than the total “Aerial footprint” …