2012

Windows Phone Summit set to begin

WP SummitIn early May, Microsoft sent out invitations to a “Developer Summit”, to be held in San Francisco on June 20-21.  Since then, the name has been changed to the “Windows Phone Summit”, and Microsoft is widely expected to begin talking …

SkyDrive, and Windows Store, gets a new logo?

During yesterday’s press event for Microsoft Surface, for those who watched the keynote might’ve noticed something – that some of the icons on Windows 8’s Metro style Start menu looked somewhat different from what you’ve been seeing in the …

Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE3 update now compulsory for all (except XP users)

Windows Live EssentialsMicrosoft released the Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE3 update back in March this year, bumping the version number up to 15.4.3555.0308. The update fixes several critical bugs and errors for various programs in the suite (for more details, click here

Bing’s big announcement? Another contest

Caught up in the buzz about Microsoft’s “mystery event” yesterday, which ended up being a pretty big deal after all with the unveiling of a new family of “Microsoft Surface” Windows 8 tablets, was a post on the Bing …

Windows 8, Windows Phone, Bing, Xbox Music and Video, SmartGlass, Kinect, Surface: can Microsoft put the pieces together?

surface_02Microsoft has made a number of impressive announcements in the past few months (with hopefully more to come as early as Wednesday, when we’ll begin to hear more about Windows Phone 8), all beginning last October when we caught our …

Microsoft’s Surface: the press release

Here’s the press release from Microsoft on today’s big mystery announcement, which turns out to be a family of new tablets, called “Surface”:

LOS ANGELES — June 18, 2012 — Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs …

Microsoft’s major announcement: “a whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft” the new Surface

microsofttablet0103At a hastily convened press event in Los Angeles, revealed this morning to be at Milk Studios, a fashion photography studio amazingly enough on Vista Street, Microsoft, after keeping tech pundits guessing for days, announced a new Microsoft branded tablet, …

Xbox Surface: Specifications of a new tablet device leaked

Xbox Surface SpecsOnly a few days after the alleged documentations of the Xbox 720, Kinect v2, and Kinect Glasses were leaked, today another document detailing the specifications for a tablet device named Xbox Surface has leaked. According to detailed obtained by Shifted2u

Official Windows Phone website publishes “Tango” update features

Windows Phone TangoWith only 3 days to go until Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft is also almost ready to push out their “Tango” update for the Windows Phone OS, or better known as the CR3 (Commercial Release 3) with build 7.10.8773.98. On the …

Xbox 720 document leaks: faked or old, it’s still very interesting (and now gone)!

the road aheadLots of speculation about what appears to be a leaked Xbox 720 slide deck that hit the web yesterday, apparently from August or September of 2010, laying out a roadmap for Xbox through 2015, and listing a number of new …