How indeed. :) The Windows Home Server guys are having a bit of fun around St. Valentine's Day, so if you'd like to win some fun WHS schwag, head on over to the Windows Home Server Blog and see what's up : What better way to prepare for Valentine...

Microsoft has made the Release Candidate (RC) versions of both Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC available today to MSDN subscribers, with general (public) availability set for February 10, 2010 (two days from now). The goal of this RC is to...

Following news that I was right about Apple's decision to not allow iPad pre-orders would cause many potential buyers to reassess things, comes this unbelievable bit of news directly from Apple itself : The company said that it would aggressively...

Microsoft and Facebook announced an expanded search partnership today.  As part of this new global agreement,  Microsoft and Facebook will soon provide Facebook users with "a more complete search experience by providing full access to Bing...

Two related items today. The other day, I saw a post from ex-Microsoftie Don Dodge, who left (i.e. "was fired by") the software giant in November and began blogging. In this latest post , he talks about the ease in which he went non-Microsoft...

A post at the Windows Experience Blog (and not the IE Blog as one might expect) notes that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 is now the world's most-used web browser. This week, Net Applications released their January browser market share report...

While the blogosphere has been focused on supposed future Windows Mobile updates like version 6.6 or 6.7, and of course Windows Mobile 7.0, I've been trying to explain--via the Windows Weekly podcast, my article Microsoft's Plan to Save Windows...

Rafael boldly goes where I cannot and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the recently leaked build of Windows Home Server "Vail." It's early yet, but there's already some interesting stuff going on here. Back in July of 2007, Microsoft...

I just received an email about this battery issue but had never experienced it (... to my knowledge, anyway. On the other hand, I'm not doing a lot of upgrades these days either). Apparently, Microsoft is looking into it : After installing the Windows...

Microsoft this week unveiled a new gaming keyboard with "anti-ghosting" capabilities: What gamers request most is better control in-game, and today Microsoft Hardware launches the SideWinder X4 Keyboard, a keyboard designed to give gamers more...

When Steve Jobs was demonstrating the iPad last week and the screen suddenly showed one of those broken icons on the New York Times web page, indicating that a Flash animation was unavailable, I realized that the guy wasn't making a rare gaff--i.e...

I've gotten a lot of email about the leak of Windows Home Server "Vail," i.e. the next major version of Microsoft's home server solution. (Read Mary Jo Foley's write-up .) The side issue here, of course, is that I haven't really...

In yet another example of Apple ripping off user interface, the maker of the popular Delicious Library application notes, accurately, that Apple has stolen his UI: When Apple was demoing its new iBooks application for the iPad during their keynote address...

I have to believe that even the most diehard Apple fanatics are feeling a bit disappointed this morning. Indeed, Apple's biggest blunder with the iPad, perhaps, is that the device wasn't available for sale immediately. They could have sold millions...

Wow. So Apple is currently unveiling has unveiled its iPad , an iPod touch like tablet computer that, so far at least, doesn't seem impressive at all. And what's with the huge bezel? It's actually ... can I say this about an Apple product...