Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design...

Since September we've know that Windows Live would be replacing some built-in Windows applications with the release of Windows 7. At PDC, we got further details: Microsoft is making this move in order to eliminate confusion between having similar...

WhatPC has a 5 page article which takes a look at Windows Home Server. The writer Alan Stevens documents his experience with a HP MediaSmart Server, looking at the hardware, software and the Power Pack 1 update. Read it...

Windows 7 has a new shiny Ribbon platform developers can leverage to create new user experience for their applications. Using the Windows 7 Ribbon, developers can eliminate much of the drudgery of Win32 UI development and deliver a rich, graphical,...

The Windows team is readying second service packs (SP2) for Vista — and for its server complement, Windows Server 2008 — and is aiming to deliver these SP2s before it releases Windows 7. Microsoft already has delivered a beta of at least Vista SP2...

Microsoft isn’t sharing specifics, but according to new information on its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) blog, the company is definitely planning to distribute in late October a pre-beta build of Windows 7 to attendees. I’m assuming this...

Windows 7’s mail, photo-management and movie-maker subsystems applets are all being replaced by optionally installable Windows Live equivalents. This is good news for users, as services are easier to update more frequently than software. It’s also...

Steven Sinofsky, head of the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, has made a post on the E7 Blog regarding Windows 7's performance which is reminiscent of a recent post on the IEBlog. Right at the start, Sinofsky stated what so many Windows and...

For Windows 7, we have a dedicated team focused on startup performance, but in reality the effort extends across the entire Windows division and beyond. Our many hardware and software partners are working closely with us and can rightly be considered an...

Microsoft’s Windows Server division has veered from its regular schedule to eliminate — at least in name — the minor “R2? update of Windows Server 2008 that was slated to arrive in the next year or two. The result: The next version of Windows...

Microsoft has launched a new blog page for discussions with customers and partners about the next Windows operating system. "We strongly believe that success for Windows 7 includes an open and honest, and two-way, discussion," said Windows 7 development...

Support for Windows XP for low-cost PCs will be extended through 2010. The Microsoft Windows XP deadline left makers of low-cost PCs with fewer options for operating systems except for Linux. Microsoft Corp said it will extend support for the Windows...

I find myself suspecting that there is something very strange wrong with Windows XP SP3, or at least with the installation procedure for it. I had been running this Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 with Windows XP Professional for several months when SP3 came out....