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Windows 8 becomes officially available on Friday, but the Windows Store made its official debut on Thursday, opening online in 231 markets worldwide in 109 languages. The Windows Store offers an impressive amount of software for download — Microsoft Windows division president Steven Sinofsky said at a Microsoft event on Thursday that there are more Continue Reading →

After several years of development, now it’s your turn to vote for or against Windows 8 with your wallet. Windows 8 goes on sale around the world at 12:01a.m. local time around the world, with an upgrade price as low as $39.95. “This is the best release of Windows ever,” Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky Continue Reading →

Face it, true Microsoft believers: it’s just not that easy to explain Microsoft’s “sort-of” version of Windows 8 known as Windows RT. We took a couple of healthy stabs at it in our Surface RT review and our Windows RT FAQ, and as an operating system it ships with some serious problems. But fear not: Continue Reading →

Is Microsoft planning a Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows 7? I thought it was inevitable. It turns out that unlike previous Windows versions, the software giant might just end at one service pack. The company will instead urge consumers and businesses alike to upgrade to Windows 8. Earlier this morning, a rumor suggested that Continue Reading →

On the eve of Microsoft’s introduction of Windows 8 in New York on Thursday, a few statements from the company’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, have surfaced that offer significant insight into the software giant’s strategy moving forward. In talking with the BBC, Ballmer gave the strongest indication yet that Microsoft may be in the process of Continue Reading →

Windows 8 is the biggest risk Microsoft has taken in decades and the company’s decision to square off against the very hardware vendors that propelled its meteoric rise adds a whole new dimension to this latest endeavor. Here, BGR reviews the Surface tablet, a device that ushers in a new era at Microsoft that could Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s Surface tablet debuted on Friday. It’s going to run Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system and Microsoft is making a big deal out of it. Is the Surface a Tablet or a Laptop? Perhaps it’s somewhere in the middle. Will you love it or hate it? So much depends on your Windows needs and Continue Reading →

Microsoft has just released an update to its Bing on Xbox feature for Xbox Live that is designed to provide you with entertainment content that is relevant to you. As part of this update, users will now be able to search by voice with more accuracy while also being given other features to help refine Continue Reading →

SmartGlass functionality may already sort of exist on Xbox 360 per the console’s latest Dashboard update, but Microsoft’s making it a full-on reality on October 26. As it stands, the Xbox 360 allows for SmartGlass support, but without an update to Microsoft’s 360 companion app, there’s no way to use it — when Microsoft’s Surface Continue Reading →

After a few months of public beta testing, Microsoft is taking the preview label of its updated Office Web Apps for SkyDrive on Monday and making these new versions of its free web-based versions of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint the standard for all SkyDrive and Outlook.com users. With this update, Microsoft is also introducing Continue Reading →