Last Friday I posted about the first of a series of hot deals that will happen at the end of every week this month. Last week it was a hot deal for Batman: Arkham Asylum. This week it’s Street Fighter IV. Starting today and running through to Monday March 8th 5:00pm Redmond time, Street Fighter IV will be available through Games on Demand at 50% off.  read more »

Back in August, I wrote a blog post about how Internet Explorer 8 offers the best protection against socially engineered malware threats. This week, NSS Labs released a new study that continues to show Internet Explorer 8 to be the #1 browser in blocking malware!  read more »

Whenever I’m confused on how to do something and am looking for some help, YouTube is one of the first places I go. Without fail, I can always find some form of video that gives me the answer I need. The Windows Home Server team has also seen the benefits of YouTube, and we thought it would be helpful and fun for our customers if we started making our own videos!  read more »

Now I really do love Google Chrome and I use it all the time as my primary browser. Why do I use it so much? Well it’s fast, very fast, it launches in a second and is over all very clean and reliable. Well recently Opera software, who were very much responsible for the introduction of the browser ballot screen, has released Opera 10.5 for Windows, boasting that it’s “the fastest browser on Earth.”  read more »

Rumor has it that Microsoft has had 35 builds since January 11 and March 2 for Service Pack 1 in Windows7. The exact nature of the service pack content is still a mystery, but with that many builds it may mean that there must be many changes that Microsoft would like to see in Windows7. The latest build is 7601.16518.100302-1530, and it is expected to ship in April 2010.  read more »

As we roll towards full public disclosure of the details of the Windows Phone 7 Series development platform there needs to be a place where members of the team building it can engage in conversations with the community.
This is the place. Subscribe to this feed to get deep technical information on the tools, platform capabilities, and so forth. We’ll be linking to other blogs and content sites as well. We’ll do our best to keep away from marketing spiel and instead focus on great technical conversations.  read more »

Microsoft’s Courier device got the whole tech-world buzzing when it first appeared last September, with many people speculating that such a device, with such a innovative interface, could never be brought to market.Now though, Engadget have laid their hands on one and it looks like there could be a real prospect of consumers being able to buy one after all.  read more »

Today Microsoft announced that effective June 30, 2010, Microsoft will discontinue future development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS)the infrastructure solution we designed specifically for midsize businesses. This blog post is to specifically answer the question around whether the change affects other Microsoft solution products.
The short answer is, no.
In no way does today’s EBS announcement impact Windows Small Business Server, Windows Home Server and Windows Server 2008 and R2.  read more »

Today at the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Steve Ballmer spoke to students about Microsoft and cloud services. You can watch his speech on-demand below.  read more »

Microsoft is hoping to sell 300 million copies of its flagship operating system in 2010, said company COO Kevin Turner yesterday.This news comes just days after Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 7 has shipped 90 million copies to date, proclaiming it their fastest-selling OS ever. Given Vista’s poor reputation and XP’s rapid aging and susceptibility to malware, this pent-up demand for the new operating system seems natural.  read more »