Microsoft is out to make things right with the Windows Phone 7 user community, unleashing amassive missiveon how they go about updating the WP7 line, and what went wrong thus far. Eric Hautala, Microsoft’s General Manager of ‘Customer Experience Engineering’ explained in great detail how an update is crafted, how it is tested, and how it is then distributed to the millions of Windows Phone 7 handset owners. From the beginning, Microsoft works to build out the new features and updates it wants to bake into the phone’s OS....

Microsoft has today launched its appeal against the €899m ($1.3bn) antitrust fine it received from the European Commission in 2008. AsReuters reports, the company is describing the fine in court today as “Excessive” and “Most undeserved”. The then-record figure was imposed after it was ruled that Microsoft had failed to comply with a 2004 antitrust judgement. Microsoft appears to be turning the argument back on the European Commissiont in its defence....

Remember those other webmail services that are not Gmail? If can think back that far two names might crop up in your mind: Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. Actually, those two services are still both individually larger than Gmail, but in the world of technology they have gone the way of the buffalo. That is not stopping Microsoft from pulling out the stops and going poaching on Yahoo! Mail’s userbase. The Redmond-based software giant today released a new website calledSwitchToHotmail....

TLDR:The 2021 Complete Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle explores how to build and manage a complete Azure cloud network and earn key Azure credentials in the process. Artificial intelligence. For most, those words immediately conjure images that are straight out of science fiction. The HAL 9000. The Terminator. Replicants. For the masses, AI is as far removed from daily life as walking the dog is from a trip to the moon....

After we broke the news that Microsoft had plans topush IE9 to the worldvia Windows Update, something that wereminded you ofon the promised day, Microsoft has reversed its course. Microsoft calls the whole ordeal a “miscommunication.” If by that they mean that they told the world several times one thing, and then reversed course after backlash in one fell swoop, or were just blowing smoke all along, then we suppose that yes indeed, there was a miscommunication....