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Bing Gets to Play with Angry Birds
Bing has been making a lot of rather interesting moves lately but none of them are as fun oriented as the news today, via the Bing Blog, that Bing is teaming with Rovio, the company behind the famous Angry Birds game, to do something a little different. Apparently, starting today you can watch the pigs ...
Windows 8 Leaks – Screenshots are Nice but Details are Better
A Windows 8 wallpaper for testers – poking a little bit of fun. Some screenshots of the most recent leak of Windows 8 are making the rounds, and as (yawn) interesting (yawn) as they might be, I’m more interested at this point in actual details about the company’s riskiest bet yet. Honestly, whatever screenshots of ...
Microsoft to Track the Death of Internet Explorer 6
Ask any web designer what is the one thing that has done more damage to the Web than anything else, and you can be pretty sure that with one unified voice they would say Internet Explorer 6. As the new browser wars continue to heat up, the one thing we can be thankful for, and ...
IE9 Setting Download Records, Yet Losing Influence?
News about Microsoft, and especially Internet Explorer, seems to follow a pattern. We get one good report, only to be followed by a negative one. Case in point: this morning I wrote about the solid numbers for Internet Explorer 9 when it came to downloads, but now we get a report, via Network World that ...
Old Windows Trojan Being Re-Worked for Mac OS X
Now before any Mac readers start going off about how Macs don’t get viruses or trojans let’s just cut you off before you start as this report from Sophos is of an early version that they had been sent. As for the argument that Mac doesn’t get these nasty little presents, well, those were the ...
Microsoft Takes Wraps Off Age of Empires Online
I still remember playing the first two versions of Age of Empires, it was one of my favorites in my collection of Civilization, Doom, and Duke Nukem, and others. But, then somewhere along the way it fell by the wayside. Between then and now Microsoft closed down Ensemble Studios, the team behind AOE, and it ...
Good News for Windows Phone 7 Developers
One of the things that will make or break the success of Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s App Marketplace. Part of that success will be due to the developers who create really cool stuff and want to give it away for free. Up until today, developers have been restricted to just submitting only five free ...
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Now Available for All
It’s that time, everyone. Well at least it is for those of you that haven’t already downloaded it via TechNet, or were really silly and grabbed a torrent or some such thing. Yes, the Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center, which of course means a correlated ...
Emergency Fix Coming in 3 Days for Windows Phone 7 update problems
Yesterday we reported that some Windows Phone 7 users were experiencing problems with the first update being out for WP7, notably two specific models of Samsung4 handsets. Apparently, there were cases where the phones were being bricked, and owners had to get replacements from their carrier. Word is, via WPCentral, that Microsoft has announced that ...
It’s Official: Windows Phone 7 has its First Update
Word is this morning that some people were starting to see an update being made available for their windows Phone 7 handsets, and just now it has become official: Windows Phone 7 has its very first update. The problem is it isn’t the one everyone was hoping for. You know, the one with copy and ...
