Bill Gates has finally joined Twitter. Yes MS fans, Bill Gates can now be followed on twitter @billgates. At the time of reporting, Bill Gates has 4955 followers, is listed 196 times and is following 39 people. Bill G has already tweeted 4 times too.

Microsoft wants to award Miguel de Icaza as a Most Valued Professional! Primarily a Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza is at Codeplex Board of Directors too.

Microsoft is internally using its own URL shortener – Binged.It.

The bot used by Microsoft Bing for crawling the web is slow and stupid. Recently, it executed a DOS attack and crashed a web server due to its incompetence.

Microsoft, Apple & Google are doing their bit to help the victims of the Haiti earth-quake by donating and encouraging their customers and employees to donate. Microsoft announced $1.25M & Google $1M worth of donations. Apple is encouraging users to donate via iTunes.

Panda Cloud Antivirus is now officially compatible to be run on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and have now received a compatibility certificate from Microsoft.

With Zimbra’s purchase, VMware is expanding from virtualization solutions to offer a suite of collaboration tools for the enterprises. Microsoft and HP have a signed a deal to provide integrated solutions to business customers. Panasonic is migrating to the cloud, dumping Microsoft Exchange and opting for IBM LotusLive suite.

Looks like Microsoft is cooking up another Windows Vista in the mobile segment. According to several rumors there is some confirmation that Windows Mobile 7 has been delayed to Mobile World Congress in February 2011.

A new build of Microsoft Office 2010 (32bit/64bit) has been leaked by Wzor. The leaked build is newer than the public beta.

Program Manager at Microsoft Bing Webmaster Central admitted that Bing is slow to index webpages.

It’s no secret that Windows 7 has been doing well, really well. However, exactly how well it is doing may come as a surprise to some.

Microsoft Office OneNote 2010 is an innovation masterpiece. With OneNote 2010 you can collect, enhance, collaborate and share information in ways never before seen. Microsoft OneNote 2010 will be released along with the entire Office suite later this year.

Prices & gaming specifications for Xbox Live’s newly announced Game Room feature that allows you to play arcade classics on both the Xbox & Windows PC.

HP Slate is a collaboration between Microsoft and HP alright for the HP Slate, albeit only for the OS and technology. However, other than that HP will take the OS collaboration one step ahead for laptops and PCs, by setting the default search engine on browsers to Bing and the default homepage to MSN.com.

Steve Ballmer from Microsoft may spring a surprise on Apple by revealing an HP tablet based on Microsoft’s Courier concept. The tablet is not yet named, however it may have an e-reader and multi-touch functionality.