By Paul Thurrott, 09/02/2010
This week, Apple held its annual music event, announcing new iPod, Apple TV, and iTunes products as expected. There were no surprises, and while the rumor mills furiously pumped out exciting possibilities before the show, none were realized...
By Paul Thurrott, 09/02/2010
Confirming news I had exclusively revealed in early July, Microsoft this week announced that the popular but limited-time Windows 7 Family Pack offering would be coming back for this holiday season...
By Paul Thurrott, 09/02/2010
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that its Windows Phone 7 OS has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and delivered to its partners for inclusion on new smart phones that will be provided to consumers in the months ahead...
By Paul Thurrott, 09/01/2010
It was all touched off by a classic bit of know-nothing blogosphere silliness: A prominent Silicon Valley blogger claimed that Microsoft's mobile business was "fatally flawed" because, get this, the software giant actually charges handset makers a small per-unit fee for its Windows Phone software....
By Paul Thurrott, 08/31/2010
When it comes to multiplayer gaming on a console, there's Xbox Live and then there's everything else. But starting this November, Microsoft is going to really test the loyalty of its best customers, when it raises the price of the Gold version of that service from $50 a year to $60 a year....
By Paul Thurrott, 08/30/2010
Microsoft late last week announced that it was dramatically altering its course on PC-to-PC sync and reversing an earlier branding decision. ...
By Paul Thurrott, 08/27/2010
An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Microsoft's supposedly exorbitant cost of launching Windows Phone, Hotmail EAS support coming on Monday, Microsoft's supposed plans to connect Windows Phone and Xbox 360 with cross-platform gaming capabilities, the real key to the success of the new Xbox 360 console, the evil plan to push H.264, and Apple's upcoming music event....
By Paul Thurrott, 08/26/2010
Yahoo! this week completed the transition of its search engine to the Bing back-end in both the US and Canada. The move comes almost 14 months after the two companies first announced their sweeping agreement to align in the search space to take on market leader Google....
By Paul Thurrott, 08/26/2010
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the immediate availability of the first service pack for Exchange Server 2010, adding a slew of new features in addition to the expected bug and security fixes and previously-released roll-ups....
By Paul Thurrott, 08/25/2010
This week, Microsoft began rolling out the first functionality updates to its online office productivity suites, Office Web Apps (OWA) and Facebook Docs....