One of our readers, nikhil_jain , pointed out Windows Live Planet . Curious me just had to investigate.   Windows live Planet is a social network from Microsoft India. It will help you find people with similar interests as you. You can also “Populate...

In order to fulfill the ever growing demand of data centers (Online Live and Cloud services), Microsoft is opening two more mega data centers this July. The first one to open (July 1st) is located in Dublin (Ireland) and is the first mega data center...

Last week we told you about Microsoft Shutting Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US (Error 810003c1) . We can tell you a little bit more about the “why” today. Let’s take a look at what can, and can’t, be banned by...

Users in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea can no longer IM with Windows Live Messenger . When trying to log in they will be left with error message: 810003c1 : We were unable to sign you in to the .NET Messenger Service. Reason: Microsoft has...

Back in April we told you about the Windows Live and other Microsoft products nominations for the Webware 100 Awards 2009 . Well, the winners just got announced . Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the voting this year to pick the best Web 2.0 sites...

Today is Earth Day , a day designated nearly 40 years ago to inspire awareness of and appreciation for our environment. But it isn’t easy to be green, according to this study from MSN . Nearly 70 percent of people said that they would never limit toilet...

With all the rumors flying around this week, Its been difficult to discern the fact from the fan-fiction. To help clear up some of this fog, me and Sean Bradford over at neowin.net decided to put our facts together. We came up with a confirmed list of...

I don’t know about you, but my head is spinning from all this Zune news. Well the buzz from the leaks may be deafening, the silence from Microsoft is positively ear shattering. Trying to keep something under wraps in this day and age, is akin to plugging...

In a blog post today, Ina Fried at CNET News quoted a Microsoft employee who recalled hearing some sobering statistics about Google vs. Live Search usage within Microsoft: At a company meeting about a year ago, one Microsoft worker recalls hearing that...

Tegra is Nvidia's 1st foray into the mobile computing realm. Nvidia is the company that makes the awesome video cards for your desktops and laptops. Most higher end machines use some type of powerful GPU made by ether Nvidia or ATI. For instance, my Gateway...

A few hours ago engadget leaked screenshots from a video for the Zune HD. Microsoft's 4th generation of its vastly under loved Zune media player. I can confirm that those are in fact real screenshots of the “Zune HD” (not sure if that is the...

What is driving time online? What do we do on the Internet? Ever wondered about that? Microsoft has been studying a number of European statistics coming from their own services as well as external data and found the following:

Content (websites, online video) and communication (email and social networks) represent 65% of all time spent online and commerce (including online shopping) represents a third (33%) of time spent on the web.

Interesting, yet no big surprises there. But did you know that Windows Live Messenger is the number 1 IM Service with 320 million people in the world exchanging 8.2 billion messages a day and that Windows Live Hotmail is the number 1 email service with 271 million emails  sent across the globe daily? That on its own, the Windows Live Messenger user base is larger than any of the top three social networking sites? And that, if the Windows Live community was a country it would be the third-largest country in the world, with nearly half a billion “residents”? I sure didn’t.

With more and more people having access to the internet, Microsoft predicts that in 2010 people in Europe on average will spend more time online (14.2 hours per week) than watching traditional television (11.5 hours a week)...

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Awards , nominations , it must be the season as yet again we can report to you about some more of those. This time about Windows Live and other Microsoft products nominated for CNET’s Webware 100 Awards 2009 . Each year Webware awards the top 100 Web...

Microsoft DreamSpark, launched February 2008 , is now also available to High-school students. This was announced by Bill Gates at the Government Leaders Forum in Washington DC. “Today, despite the economic crisis, it’s as important as ever to focus on...

Microsoft is going to discontinue their Software and Services subscription package Equipt . Equipt, which includes Office Home and Student 2007, OneCare, Office Live Workspaces and Windows Live Essentials, got launched July last year . To help address...