The hardware team within Microsoft’s Entertainment division responsible for the Xbox is looking to hire someone who can help them design a cost effective and efficient motherboard for the upcoming Xbox iterations.

An epic run down of the Impulse patents that Microsoft has been sued for and Microsoft’s patent portfolio regarding body and gesture tracking.

Malware, popular term for malicious software, is a software program designed to damage a user’s computer, a server, or network; or to steal personal or sensitive information of a user or defrauding the user through online scams.

Microsoft’s annual internal conference for employees MGX is being held at Colorado and the secrecy surrounding the event is not letting a lot of information come out.

Microsoft has updated the Windows Phone 7 developer portal – App Hub with some interesting feature, most important being private beta of applications.

Microsoft has taken its pursuit of the operators of the notorious Rustock botnet to the next level by now offering a monetary reward of $250,000 for any information about them that leads to the identification, arrest, and criminal conviction.

Beards and Beaks is the first game on Windows Phone 7 that brings Microsoft Points and in-app purchases to the platform.

A slide shown by Kevin Turner during his Worldwide Developer Conference keynote hints at a possible E-book Reader platform or product from Microsoft.

Microsoft has released Small Basic 1.0. With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases students of all ages into the world of programming.

Microsfot showed four new Windows Phone 7 devices, one each from ZTE, Fujitsu, Samsung and Acer. The phones will run mango and should be available soon.

Microsoft Office XP and Windows Vista SP1 have reached the end of Extended Support Life Cycle, which means no further security updates will be released for these products.

At the annual Worldwide Partner Conference today, Steve Ballmer announced that more than 400 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold in less than two years and Office 2010, shipped in June 2010, has sold over 100 million copies.

Two patent applications from Microsoft show the future of PowerPoint. Optimized for a touch screens and Kinect like gestures for controlling presentations and collaboration are explained by the patents.

Microsoft has applied two implementations of a similar dual screen phone handset concept. A detachable second screen can be used as a secondary device.

A list of 11 interesting features and tweaks added in Windows Phone 7 Mango that have been talked little about.