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Facebook announced yesterday that it has acquired of the Atlas Solutions marketer-side adserver business from Microsoft. The Facebook-Microsoft deal does not come as a surprise, it has been anticipated for weeks after AllThingsD reported that the companies were talking in December and Ad Age reported that the acquisition was imminent earlier this month. “Today’s marketing environment is [...]

Microsoft launched its consumer focused version of Office 2013, known as Office 365 Home Premium in last week of January and today almost after a month it came out with the business versions of its Office 365 software. There are three different variants to choose from, Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Midsize Business, and Office 365 ProPlus, organizations have multiple options for obtaining [...]

Internet Explorer 10 has been available for Windows 8 since the OS released in October 2012, Microsoft today has made the browser available for Windows 7, it will now be available in 95 languages for users around the world. ‘With IE10 we continue delivering the best performance for real world Web sites on your Windows device. As with Windows 8, IE10 on Windows 7 improves performance across the [...]

Microsoft is testing video message feature on Skype. Skype users in the UK and US using the iOS, Android, and OSX apps can now send video messages up to three minutes long to each other. Strangely Skype Video Messages won’t immediately come to Windows Phone or Windows 8. Video messages sent to Windows users will send a link to the user where they can watch the video online. Tom Warren of The Verge [...]

Microsoft today announced that its cloud storage service SkyDrive now stores over 1 billion Office documents.”Recently we reached a big milestone; our customers are now storing over a billion Office documents on SkyDrive!.” wrote Omar Shahine on Windows Blog. Sarah Filman, Lead Program Manager for SkyDrive.com, also announced a new feature which is said to have been based on customer feedback [...]

Microsoft Surface Pro 64GB model will have 41GB of installed assets, leaving users only 23GB of disk space, that certainly will not make the users happy when the device reaches the retail stores on February 9th. Mobile devices  have always had less usable space than their advertised storage capacities because of pre-installed software. Microsoft does warn users of the issue on the Surface webpage, [...]

The Microsoft Surface Pro with Windows 8, will start selling  in U.S. and Canada on February 9th and will soon after make it to U.K.shelves. Microsoft took it’s own sweet time in  launching the premium tablet, which shares a similar design with its Surface RT variant but packs an x86-based Core i5 chip, 4GB RAM, a 10.6-inch 1920×1080 pixel screen, 64-128GB internal storage, a USB 3.0 port, [...]

Microsoft has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses and upgrades for its new Windows 8 operating system in the 10 weeks since its launch according to Tammi Reller, chief financial and chief marketing officer of Windows, who announced the milestone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here’s what the Windows blog team had to say about it: At the 11th Annual J.P. Morgan Tech Forum at [...]

Microsoft launched a new campaign that aims to screw Google, Microsoft calls their new website “Scroogled“, it informs Google users about how Google displays results on their Shopping page. The website talks about Google’s new initiative for their Shopping section which turns all results into paid ads, instead of actual relevant results. Back in May, Google made the decision to move to a new [...]

Initial reports for Windows 8 sales numbers are modest to put it politely. According to MS aficionado Paul Thurrott and one of his “most trusted sources,” uptake of the new OS isn’t hitting Redmond’s targets, with the blame being put on OEMs and their “inability to deliver” more inspiring hardware with better availability. “The net effect of all this stuff, [...]