Microsoft has changed its policy requiring an internet connection for the Xbox One, but users will still have to go online when they first start it up to download a required 'day one' software update. More...
While Microsoft has reversed their plans for Xbox One DRM and online requirements, it has killed the 10-member family game sharing plan, and the ability to have all your games linked to your account More...
The Wall Street Journal claims that Microsoft has been engaged in "advanced discussions" with Nokia to acquire its device business, but that talks between the two companies have apparently collapsed. More...
A rumor is making its way across the web today at a feverish pace that Microsoft is preparing to announce that it will be scaling back the DRM on the Xbox One to appease hardcore gamers. More...
A new report says GameStop retail locations in the US have stopped taking Xbox One pre-orders due to the stores reaching their allocation limits; GameStop is still taking pre-orders on its website. More...
Microsoft has announced a 'bounty program' for people who find exploits inside Windows 8.1, with up to $100,000 offered, plus rewards for finding vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer 11 preview. More...
Windows Phone has an interface unlike any other OS, so when an Android launcher replicating its UI hits 1m downloads, is there envy on the other side or are users wanting something new? More...
Nokia has said that it will be webcasting its "Zoom Reinvented" event on July 11, at which it's expected to launch its 'EOS' Windows Phone, adding that there will be "41 million reasons" to tune in. More...
A decline in global PC shipments and sales has forced HP to reshuffle their PC business, moving long-time head Todd Bradley to strategic growth and replacing him with ex-Lenovo employee, Dion Weisler. More...
Vevo released its first app for Windows 8 and Windows RT on Tuesday, allowing users to stream music videos and similar content from the service. Vevo now has apps on all Microsoft's major platforms. More...
AdBlock Plus has launched a preview version of their popular ad-blocking browser extension for Internet Explorer, enabling those who can't stand ads to block them using a rough-around-the-edges tool More...
A new photo has leaked of the Nokia Lumia 'EOS', showing this time a white model. This leak gets added to the growing pile surrounding the unreleased phone, which will likely sport a 41 MP camera. More...
Sources are reporting that Microsoft is currently testing a new Surface RT with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset inside, as the company continues to offload current stock of the Windows RT tablet More...
Developer FourBros Studios has posted up an update for its Windows Phone game Taptitude, showing the game continues to gain an audience with over 1 million downloads so far in two years. More...
A Guatemala insurance firm has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming the company tried to extort money from the firm as part of a raid of its offices in 2012. Microsoft has denied the charges. More...
Microsoft claims to have freed "at least 2 million PCs" from the criminal Citadel botnet that it went after earlier in June, although the people behind the botnet are still at large. More...
Microsoft Research's Socl network has added some new features for its users, including a quick way to create animated images and quick meme photos with the new Picotales feature. More...
Microsoft has launched a revamp of its MSDN message boards, offering forum users a number of new features, such as adding previews of message threads, improvements to search and more. More...
Microsoft has announced that it has reached the 0.9 milestone release of TypeScript and have added a bunch of features and tooling capabilities to the platform as they march on towards 1.0 More...
The chairman of Huawei's consumer business says the company is considering an acquisition of Nokia, hinting that Windows Phone might be dropped in favour of Android, if Nokia is willing to negotiate. More...
Huawei has announced its Ascend P6, "the world's slimmest smartphone" at just 6.18mm-thick. The handset features Android 4.2.2, a 1.5GHz quad-core CPU and an "industry-leading" 5MP front camera. More...
One year after Microsoft surprised the world with the announcement of Surface, we look back on the launch, and reflect on how the tablets have done since then, and what's still to come. More...
Microsoft's Phil Spencer, who is the head of Microsoft Game Studios, has stated that the Xbox One is 3x as powerful as the Xbox 360 but then later corrected that statement on Twitter. More...
Microsoft Open Technologies has announced it is adding support for its Pointer Events web standard to Mozilla's Firefox web browser, after previously adding support to Google's Chrome browser. More...
Microsoft's advertising division is showing off some new concepts for upcoming in-app ads that will be used for Windows 8, including client such as Dell, Mercedes-Benz USA and more. More...
Microsoft has announced some more statistics concerning the adoption of its Windows Azure cloud services, including word that over 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies now uses Windows Azure. More...
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 game console outsold all of the other consoles in the US in May 2013, with 114,000 units, making this the 29th straight month on top of the US game market. More...
With voice searches becoming a staple after the release of Siri, The Bing Speech Team and Microsoft Research have developed an improved system to more accurately and quickly return search results. More...
Two of the many executives to have recently left HTC have launched Kazam, a new smartphone brand promising a range of devices with "stunning design, robust hardware and outstanding customer service." More...
Starting today, and until August 31 2013, Microsoft will be making its Surface RT 32GB tablet available to students for just $199, through their schools and universities. More...
After seven years and billions of tweets, the key word behind Twitter's main success, 'tweet' has been included as a valid definition for the English language by the Oxford English Dictionary itself. More...
Apple's iOS 7 announcement showed us what the OS will look like on the iPhone, but not the iPad. But developers have taken images from the iPad iOS 7 emulator, giving a hint of what's to come. More...