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• Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro’
  Microsoft today announced plans to kill its Windows Live OneCare PC care and security suite and replace it with a free anti-malware utility. The new product, code-named “Morro,” will be [...]
• Hurtful Google Docs Study Tied To Ex-Microsoft Employees
  The ClickStream report suggests that a mere 1% of U.S. adult Internet users used Google Docs, while Microsoft Office is in use by more than 50% of adult U.S. Internet users. On Friday, [...]
• A New Dawn in Home Entertainment for Everyone Begins Nov. 19
  New Xbox Experience ushers in a new era of entertainment with Netflix, plus partnerships with movie studios throughout the world. By the end of this month, Xbox 360 will reach another [...]
• How to get link exchanges to help boost your traffic
  By Skip: If you want lots of visitors to your Web site, it helps to have lots of links to your Web site. Link exchanges — sometimes called reciprocal linking or link swaps — are a popular way to [...]
• Microsoft Expands Virtualization Initiatives With HP
  Companies offering products, training and deployment services for storage, networking and server consolidation; joint sales programs aimed at lowering customers’ IT costs and accelerating business [...]
• Marketing messages that work now — home, family, friends
  If your business focuses on consumer products or services, you’re probably wondering what kind of marketing message will work right now. With consumers tightening their belts and feeling nervous [...]
• Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2
  Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications. One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and [...]
• Robinson Crusoe and OneNote: short term vs. long term gains when testing
  From John Guin's blog: have a theory about the value of automation (and many other test tools) and the time it takes to develop, maintain and use them. I call this my "Robinson Crusoe Theory" of [...]
• New Microsoft Store Opens Virtual Doors
  New site gives customers a single online destination to shop for and compare products across entire Microsoft lineup. Microsoft Store offers Microsoft’s entire consumer catalog, including [...]
• What’s gaming got to do with how we work?
  From Microsoft Office labs: When thinking about the future of productivity in light of Millennials entering the work force, their gaming behaviors (Fully 97% of teens ages 12-17 play computer, web, [...]