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It looks like Steve Ballmer has been caught slightly off guard with more talk of what Microsoft is going to do in response to the current success of the iPad. And while this all sounds strangely familiar, especially given he confirmed earlier in the month that Windows 7 slates were coming, he appeared to speak [...]

The Nintendo DS brought with it the ability to play games while toucing the screen and the Nintendo Wii brought with it the ability top play your games utilizing a motion controller. Flash forward a bit and even mobile phones have accelerometers in them which can (and are) used for portable gaming purposes. On the console side [...]

One thing that they say about an internship at Microsoft is that you get full access to the Microsoft staff and you’re treated like an equal by the current employees. I’m sure that “treated like an equal” means that they’ll answer your C++ question after you get coffee for  the whole office and work on [...]

You’ve heard of ARM processors. They’re the tiny RISC processors that power your mobile phone, your tablet, and usually about 10 things inside your computer, save for the big applications processor. The business behind ARM is kinda strange – the English company ARM owns the rights, but licenses it out to other manufacturers to make [...]

Windows Phone 7 is a big change in Microsoft’s mobile operating systems – and they’re imposing more control over the device, like special hardware requirements. Taiwan smartphone maker HTC was a longtime Windows Mobile device manufacturer and they used their custom HTC Sense UI to improve the looks of the older Microsoft OSes. But, when [...]

We already know that Microsoft is planning to give out Windows Phone 7 phones to all employees before it launches. But why? It was assumed that Microsoft wants their employees to eat their own dog food – but now it seems mobile boss Andy Lees has other plans.

In what seems like a surprise move, Microsoft has offered up an update for the KIN phones. And yes, both the KIN ONE and KIN TWO are included. That said, the update is not anything over the top, but it should be enough to make anyone using a Twitter on the KIN a little happier.

Halo: Reach, the last episode of the Halo franchise is one of the most expected games of this year. We have talked about it just recently and it looks like Microsoft is also very interested in this game’s future popularity.

Greg Sullivan, product manager for Windows Phone 7, has confirmed to website Pocket-Lint that Bing will be the only search engine for Windows Phone 7. This sort of bucks the trend that iOS and Android have started by allowing different search engines to be added to the phone.

As we wrote about a few months back – allegedly, Steve Ballmer is a company man. He gets mad if he sees people using iPhones at Microsoft’s campus and tells people that “When my father was a manager at Ford, we drove Fords.” So, Microsoft is going to be helping their employees play for the [...]

While we all know that the public beta of SP1 for Windows 7 came out some weeks back, it looks like Microsoft will be officially releasing the actual Windows 7 Service Pack this 2011. To be precise it looks like this will take place in April of 2011, based on updates gathered.