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Finally! X-Box Live International Now Supports PayPal Accounts
Microsoft is finally rolling out PayPal billing support for international Xboxers as part of the larger release of the new Xbox 360 System Update. This might not seem like a big deal for most people, but for those of us who live outside of the US and use PayPal as our only option for online ...
Coming in June: Office 2010 & Sharepoint 2010 Service Pack 1
The big news for Microsoft today will be coming out of their annual TechEd conference that is happening right now and part of that news is that the Service Pack 1 for both Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 is headed our way. It is slated for release at the end of June and initially will be made ...
Microsoft’s Outlook Hotmail Connector Gets an Update
For those of you using Outlook and the handy Outlook Hotmail Connector you might want to head to the Microsoft Download Center and grab yourself a copy of the update package for it. For those of you not familiar with the Outlook Hotmail Connector it is a handy plugin for Microsoft’s Outlook that allows you ...
Some Bonuses Following the Microsoft Skype Deal – The Good and the Bad
In deals the size of the one that Microsoft just agreed to in acquiring Skype for $8.5 billion, there are always interesting little wrinkles that come out of the woodwork after the announcements are made and people have a chance to dig deep. The “good” of this deal is that as part of the Skype ...
Microsoft Prepares to Unveil Next Windows Phone Features
I guess our invite got lost on its way through the InterTubes on its way to us but as you can see from the image of the invitation received by Tom Warren at WinRumors, he and other illustrious tech bloggers in the Microsoft world are being invited to s special shindig on May 24, 2011. ...
Microsoft to Buy Skype for $7 Billion?
There is a growing rumor that Microsoft is in final stages of negotiations to acquire Skype. Paul O’Flaherty and I discussed the rumor in today’s Daily Brief but at that point it was still a dark horse rumor. Joel Falconer over at The Next Web has more current information about the possible acquisition of Skype ...
Microsoft Releases a Training Kit for Visual Basic and .NET
When it comes to developing applications for the Windows platform, the king of the mountain when it comes to developer tools has to be Visual Studio. However, one of the things about Visual Studio, aside from the confusing pricing scheme, is that unless you have prior experience using Visual Studio it can be hard to ...
Some Sanity Around Those Windows Phone Numbers
The entire notion that only 674,000 Windows Phone 7′s being sold, which in turn seems to have everyone jumping on the #FAIL bandwagon is really beginning to grate on my nerves. As much as I feel inclined to have my say on the matter, I think Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web has written up ...
EA Apparently Testing Next-Gen X-Box
According to a post over at Develop Online, Electronic Arts is testing out the next generation Xbox but as of this point there is no new console design included. Instead, the hardware for the console is being delivered in a plain jane PC shell. EA developers are getting to grips with the tech to create ...
Microsoft’s Outlook Gets a Gadget Store Courtesy of Xobni
Xobni is a well known plugin for Microsoft’s Outlook that looks to socialize your email inbox and provide some intelligence and relationship management capabilities. Having used Xobni back when it was still in beta, I can say that it is an interesting way to gain some control over your inbox. To continue to improve of ...
