Microsoft rolled out Outlook.com recently and it’s slated to eventually replace the aging and reputation-challenged Hotmail service. For now, users can choose to upgrade or not, but eventually it will become required. Microsoft has built a lot of new features into this web mail client, not to mention lending it…

Batman shooter Gotham City Impostors’ move to Steam and free-to-play today wasn’t without its casualties: Effective immediately the Games for Windows Live version of the game is no longer officially supported. That includes the PC version purchased on EA Origin, GameStop Impulse and of course through Games for Windows Live’s…

The Windows 8 Xbox Live app will play exclusive XBLA games on desktops and tablets. The Director of Programming at Microsoft, Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, has announced that certain Xbox Live games will be available in Windows 8 upon launch. Starting on October 26th, 40 titles will be initially available via The first…

KODAK Info Activate Solution, a new distributed enterprise capture system, features a radically simple user interface that allows knowledge workers to simultaneously digitize paper documents and initiate a business process with a single click. The new solution provides businesses with the ability to manage paper documents with the speed and…

The University’s new email system, Microsoft Office 365, replaced Learnlink for student email and calendar on August 10, but LearnLink remains in use for conferences. All email for students, faculty and staff can now only be accessed using Microsoft Office 365. In addition, students can now link their email accounts on their Alan…

Today, Box’s young CEO faces a strange problem with Microsoft. Redmond is Box’s biggest competitor AND one its most important partners. Box’s mainstay is a secure file-sharing and collaboration product. One of Microsoft’s key products is SharePoint, which is, yes, a file-sharing and collaboration product that’s a key part of…

Andrew Nicol is an attorney based in New York City. He was previously a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and now runs Clickwrapped, an online report that reviews and scores leading consumer websites according to how well they respect the rights of their users. He is a…

There’s a power struggle going on in the Middle East a quiet competition between two nations over quite differing ideologies, approaches and rhetoric. The main players in this face-off? Iran and Saudi Arabia. But there’s an interesting twist. Sectarian differences are at the root of the brewing rivalry for regional…

Microsoft has announced the first wave of Xbox Live games to be released for Windows 8 devices, playable on any PC, laptop or tablet. The "Xbox Live on Windows 8" range will launch from 26th October and include big-name Microsoft Studios titles such as Kinectimals, Toy Soldiers and ilomilo. Angry Birds developer…

It isn’t often that you think about your email. Its a product that the vast majority of the world uses every day, but you don’t actually ever think about how you interact with it and what it can do for you. Luckily the folks at Microsoft do that for you…