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The next big thing in Microsoft’s ongoing development is the upcoming series of “Blue” updates.  They will be released later this year bringing a slew of new features and fixes to Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Server, and Windows Services.  That last category includes everything from SkyDrive to Outlook.com.  According to recent reports, at least one [...]

Office 2013 Release Date Confirmed There have been a few rumors floating around that January 29th would be the release date for Microsoft Office 2013.  It appears that there were entirely accurate.  We have now seen confirmation that the newest version of Microsoft Office is ready for commercial release tomorrow.  This means the beginning of [...]

Given all the press surrounding Windows 8’s preliminary browser wars, Mozilla seems to be lagging slightly in getting their program ready for release.  Windows 8-optimized Chrome has been available for months at this point (though how optimized it actually is can be easily questioned) and Internet Explorer 10 is obviously nearly finalized aside from the [...]

One of the few major failings of the Windows Phone space as it stands right now is the lack of a well-populated app store.  There is a lot going in favor of Windows Phone 7.5 compared to the competition, but without that sort of potential personalization it is hard to attract sufficient interest to grab [...]

So, there are over 4,000,000 Windows applications floating around right now, according to Microsoft.  Given how widely used the operating system has been in the past couple decades, nobody is really surprised by this as far as I can tell.  With Metro changing things up, however, Windows is having to start from scratch in a [...]