With the news this morning that Skype will be included with Windows 8.1, we wanted to know we were getting our story straight, and so put in a question or two to our friendly Microsoft spokesperson. If you remember, …

Today in a blog post on the Windows Experience blog, Microsoft Apps & Services General Manager Ryan Gavin gives us the first glimpse at Microsoft’s marketing direction for its One Experience vision that Steve Ballmer laid out back in …

Nokia held the Lumia 1020 launch event in Nanjing, China today. The Nokia 41MP PureView flagship device is now officially launched in China market via Suning online and retail stores and carrier China Unicom exclusively. Unsurprisingly, the pricing for Lumia …

Today Microsoft officially announced that it will make Windows 8.1 available as a free update to all Windows 8 users beginning on October 18^th (in New Zealand, that is, it will actually be available on the 17^th in …

Are you having problems accessing Outlook.com, SkyDrive? You’re not alone, as Status.live.com is reporting “technical difficulties” for services “such as Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive”:

The problems (which we don’t seem to be having here) were reported at 9:01am (PDT – …

Over the past few months, we correctly predicted some of the new features that came as part of the recent major SkyDrive.com update. However, we mentioned that there are also a few more features that are yet to come, …

Whilst Microsoft is in the process of rolling out the next Windows Phone 8 update, called General Distribution Release 2 (GDR2) – which brings minor enhancements and fixes such as CalDAV and CardDav support, FM Radio, and more – details …

Want to have the job of telling developers that “their baby is ugly”? That’s what researchers on Bing’s experimentation platform do, according to a post by Dr. Ronny Kohavi on the Search Quality Insights blog titled “Large Scale Experimentation …

When Windows 8 was released last October, Microsoft released a series of “Metro”-styled Bing apps designed for the Windows Store – Bing News, Bing Sports, Bing Weather, Bing Finance, and Bing Travel. These apps received some significant updates since …

When Outlook.com was first launched just a little over a year ago, we introduced you to a new feature that allows you to save your messaging history in the cloud. The feature automatically saved a copy of your instant messaging …