By Paul Thurrott, 02/11/2012
This week, after over a year of silence in the face of persistent and understandable questions from customers, tech enthusiasts and the press, Microsoft finally revealed more ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/11/2012
In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss Microsoft's blockbuster revelation about Windows 8 on ARM (WOA), the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/11/2012
While Windows Phone still offers basic apps organization capabilities compared to iOS or Android, things have improved somewhat in Windows Phone 7.5.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/10/2012
How Microsoft Hotmail beats Office 365 for email for most consumers, but Office 365 beats "free" for most small businesses.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/10/2012
With Windows Phone "Tango," has Microsoft finally found a recipe for success in the smartphone market? And will Windows Phone "Apollo" address business phone needs?
By Paul Thurrott, 02/10/2012
There's been a lot of silliness and angst about Windows 8 supposedly dropping the Start button, the first time this central user interface has been absent from Windows since its ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/10/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Microsoft's incredible but overdue revelations about Windows 8 on ARM devices, why the tech press is wrong to deride ...
By John Savill, 02/10/2012
Four tools to optimize your website performance.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/09/2012
Microsoft today launched an MSN app for iPad which it says delivers great MSN content in a magazine-like experience you can read anywhere, whether online or off.
By Kimberly L. Tripp, 02/09/2012
Question: Partitioned tables were the new shiny feature in SQL Server 2005 – why are partitioned views even still available? Are there any benefits that they provide? Answer: In ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/09/2012
Thanks to an exhaustive blog post and video about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft's ARM plans, and Office 15, we now have our best peek yet at the future of Windows. ...
By Jeff James, 02/09/2012
Scriptlogic was acquired by Quest Software in August 2007, and Secure Copy 6.0 -- released in late January -- is one of the first Scriptlogic products to be branded under the ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/09/2012
Over a year after vaguely announcing that it would provide versions of Windows 8 on the ARM platform, Microsoft today provided detailed information about its plans. The post ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/09/2012
Google announced this week that the latest version of its web browser, Chrome 17, is now available. The new version sports page pre-rendering for faster performance, plus some ...
By Michael K. Campbell, 02/09/2012
In previous posts we touched upon an overview of what causes corruption and looked at ways to simulate corruption. In this post we’ll talk about more about corruption – in terms ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/09/2012
Onuora Amobi of Windows8update.com recently interviewed Rafael Rivera and I about our forthcoming book, Windows 8 Secrets. We met Onuora at BUILD last September, had a great time ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/09/2012
Microsoft has delivered its improved Kinect for Windows, a motion sensor device that aims to bring Kinect entertainment to the PC masses. But unlike its Xbox 360 forefather, the ...
By Tony Redmond, 02/09/2012
Microsoft, or rather the program’s author Stephen Griffin, has published an updated version of the venerable MFCMAPI utility on Codeplex. The new version is dated January 2012 and ...
By Paul Robichaux, 02/09/2012
Email transmission over SMTP is inherently insecure, but with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you can enable TLS with SMTP to encrypt messages during transport.
By John Savill, 02/09/2012
Connect to SkyDrive from Explorer by using this tool.