Microsoft has given us some details of their upcoming service that will allow Windows Mobile users to synchronize information between their phone and the Web.
With My Phone users will be able to store pictures,videos,text messages,etc.

Coming soon...

Microsoft® My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to:
Back up and restore your phone's information to a password-protected web site
Access and update your contacts and appointments through your web account
Share photos on your phone with family and friends
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Windows Mobile Online Storage Beta Coming Soon

It looks as if the amount of users not happy with windows vista that microsoft has extended the retirement of windows xp home until May 30,2009.It was to be retired in

Jan 31,2009.

Windows XP Home retirement postponed

Microsoft opened its second online retail shop on thursday it is designed to carry the largest and most up-to-date selection of the software giants  product lines, such as Office, Windows, Xbox, and Zune.

Microsoft is launching its new site at a time when retailers are facing a major downturn as concerns over recession weigh on minds and wallets of consumers.

Microsoft launches second retail site

Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft's own data centers.

Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one's own PC than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs that live inside Microsoft's data centers as opposed to on the servers of a given business.
With the launch of Azure, Microsoft will find itself in competition with other providers of Internet storage and computing services including Amazon, Salesforce.com, and Rackspace.
Microsoft is making Windows Azure in preview form to developers, with a limited subset of the features that it plans to have in the product before its final release.

Microsoft launches Windows Azure

Microsoft is issuing an emergency security patch to prevent hostile code from executing remote procedure calls. The "out-of-band" patch for Windows is described as critical, though there are few details about any exploit. The security flaw in Windows is "wormable," meaning it could be exploited without any action by the user.
The update will fix the security flaw of executing code remotely, according to Microsoft the issue is found in Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Releases Emergency Security Patch

Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP on new PCs by six months, the company confirmed Friday.

Computer makers that "downgrade" machines from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate to Windows XP Professional will be able to obtain media for the latter through the end of July 2009, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Friday.

The new date is a change in policy. Previously, Microsoft had planned to halt XP Professional media shipments to major computer makers after Jan. 31. 2009.

This is good news in my opinion since vista has not favored well with most pc users.
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Microsoft Grants Windows XP Yet Another Reprieve

Microsoft's latest effort to get people to use its search service is something called SearchPerks, which gives people points for using the search engine that can later be redeemed for prizes.
To earn value for your searches and join the SearchPerks! promotion you must have Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher to participate.
Get SearchPerks

Microsoft will pay you to use search

Microsoft will launch a pre-beta release of Windows 7 next month. The pre-beta release shows that Microsoft is on target for Windows 7's 2010 launch. Microsoft used the Vista kernel in developing Windows 7; analysts say this will avert compatibility problems. The Windows 7 pre-beta will demonstrate Windows 7's touchscreen capabilities.

Developers will get their first look at an alpha version of the operating system at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October. Microsoft plans to demonstrate its progress on Windows 7 at the annual event. But the operating system itself won't debut in retail stores until 2010.

Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Pre-Beta Launch

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First Bill Gates and Seinfeld Commercial

Microsoft's newly released Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 is generating plenty of buzz around the Web, but there are a few things you should know before you decide to install it. The update, released late Wednesday, comes with some caveats:

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Myself I would not use intenet explorer period it is two buggy.I prefer the Opera browser myself.How about you?

Ready to Try Out IE8? Better Read This First

In a broadcast to company employees Friday, Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell echoed what has become the company's mantra on Yahoo: It's time to take our offer.

He didn't say anything too different from what he told analysts on Friday, or from what CEO Steve Ballmer was saying all week in his European tour, essentially that things weren't moving quickly enough.


"We've been disappointed in the speed at which the transaction went," Liddell said in the broadcast. "We put what anyone reasonable would say was an incredibly generous offer on the table to try to facilitate a speedy transaction."

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Microsoft CFO: 'We'll see what next week brings'

There have been rumors around the internet for sometime about microsoft looking to buy out yahoo could these rumors be true?

Here is the text of the letter that Microsoft sent to Yahoo's board of directors:
Ballmer's letter to Yahoo: We want you

Is Microsoft Buying Yahoo?

Here is a cool tool being introduced by microsoft late this evening.It is the microsoft event planner.

Microsoft is jumping into the world of online event planning with Windows Live Events, scheduled to launch late Thursday.

The free social event planning service lets you invite friends to an event and creates a Web page where people can share photos and stories with blog entries after the event. It uses the same infrastructure as Windows Live Spaces and lets you use your contact list there or in Hotmail or Messenger.

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Microsoft launching event planner

Microsoft Adds Search Marketing Package to Office Live

Microsoft has added another search engine marketing (SEM) offering to the suite of services available to its Microsoft Office Live Small Business subscribers. Through a partnership with The Search Agency, a Santa Monica-based SEM firm, Microsoft's customers can sign up for three levels of service ranging from online training to full service campaign management.

The Office Live Small Business service is designed for very small businesses, typically with less than 10 employees and often with less than five, who typically don't have dedicated IT resources, according to Louise Rasho, senior manager of marketing communications.

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Microsoft Adds Search Marketing Package to Office Live

New Google business software will compete with Microsoft

IT giant Google unveiled a suite of business software in America on Thursday (February 22nd), meaning it will compete directly with software leader Microsoft.

The Google Apps package will combine email, website creation and instant messaging programs with another called Docs and Spreadsheets, which will allow users to read and edit documents created with Microsoft Word and Excel.

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New Google Business Software will Compete with Microsoft