The Metro Microsoft Account version of the rebranded Windows Live ID is now live.

Last week Steve Ballmer unveiled the next version of Microsoft’s Office suite and as it turns out that wasn’t all the Office news for the week. With 50 Million users and negligible press love, we can now try out the Metro Office Web Apps version. The team has announced a preview for the upcoming changes [...]

Microsoft has announced at an annual sales meeting that the Windows 8 General Availability Date is set for October 26th.

Office 2013′s on demand feature makes it possible to run Office as a service. This is huge, for users and for Microsoft.

Microsoft just announced the consumer preview of Office 2013/Office 365 which includes a new metro interface and also several other interesting new features and changes which you can read about in our Office 2013 features post.

Steve Ballmer is currently announcing the Office 2013 consumer preview live, however, the links to download the consumer preview of Office 2013 is already available online.

As of yesterday, July 14th, 2012, Microsoft has agreed to give NBC News full control of MSNBC.com. Because of this, NBC is rebranding the site to NBCnews.com.

Microsoft will be making an announcement later today at 12PM Pacific/12ET about some new product(s). The announcement will be made by Steve Ballmer which would mean that Microsoft is bound to announce something major.

Here are the details of Microsoft’s new angel investment and incubator program called Bing Fund.

Microsoft will have several pop-up Microsoft Stores for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 & Surface launch and a store in Canada.

COO Kevin Turner’s slide that shows Windows 8′s breadth and why is a no-compromise solution.

As part of the Cumulative Security Update for July 2012, Microsoft has released a crtical security update for Internet Explorer 9.

Microsoft is currently receiving royalties from almost all major Android tablet manufacturers including Samsung, Buffalo and HTC. You may remember that Barnes and Noble talked their way out of this deal when they turned their Nook spinoff into a Microsoft/Barnes and Noble joint venture. However, two lower end tablet makers who go by the name ‘Coby’ and ‘Aluratek’ have also [...]

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Perspective Pixel, a leader in research, development and production of large-scale, multi-touch display solutions.

Microsoft’s Windows 8 release date has been set to August for hardware partners and users can buy it in October.