Microsoft has announced that the Kinect for Windows 1.5 update will be released by late May. In addition, availability will be increased to nineteen additional countries.

One of the Bing marketing executives fired last week for the misappropriation of company assets commented with positive things to say about his former employer.

Rahul Sood, the founder of VoodooPC shared his very positive thoughts on Razer, stating that they “take over where Voodoo left off”, and are poised to “ignite the PC industry in a way that hasn’t been done in years.”

Microsoft has announced that apps for Comcast XFINITY, HBO GO, and MLB.TV have been released to Xbox LIVE gold subscribers.

Earlier this week, Microsoft had confirmed that it is blocking links to The Pirate Bay in Windows Live Messenger. However, through some testing, I was not able to reproduce this today. Did they remove the site from their internal blacklist?

Microsoft has released the Windows Phone 7.1.1 SDK.

I’ve been a Hotmail user for some time, but I never explored its graymail-fighting features until contacted by Microsoft to write a post about it. Read on to find out the verdict.

Sahas Katta, the guy who claims to have beat Microsoft during a ‘Smoked’ challenge has received the laptop and a bonus phone for his troubles.

As today was a big day for MetroTwit — during which they dropped the major 1.0 release of the Twitter client — I had a nice chat with David Golden, the project’s lead developer and a friend of mine.

Microsoft Hardware’s next webcam in their LifeCam series will be the LifeCam Director.

MetroTwit 1.0 has been released, introducing many heavily-requested features to the client such as multi-account support, filtering, and better list support.

This month, Microsoft has expanded the availability of the Windows Phone App Hub to 23 additional countries.

Microsoft has taken its popular Smoked by Windows Phone contest to its stores, offering a Hunger Games Special Edition laptop to those who manage to win, and the opportunity to swap out your existing smartphone for a Windows Phone for those who lose.

Contradicting — and likely correcting — a statement previously made by the company’s Chief Marketing Officer, Rovio’s CEO confirmed that Angry Birds Space is coming to Windows Phone after all.

Nokia appears to have struck a deal with AT&T, in which the Lumia 900 will be a ‘Company Use’ phone, available to front-selling employees free of charge.