
The Mix 09 website is making some clever use of Oomph. What is Oomph? It is a Microformats toolkit by Microsoft. And what are Microformats?
Microformats are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume,...

Just when you thought Microsoft was ‘uncool’ and jobs are as rare as a pink elephant, they step up and create a new social networking recruiting website called Microsoft Entertainment Jobs. If you’ve always wanted to work on the Xbox, Zune, Media Center or other entertainment products and divisions at Microsoft, this is the website...

Microsoft has released a reliability update marked KB962921 for Internet Explorer in Windows 7 Beta. According to the Windows Internet Explorer Blog, the main areas of fixes have been the crashes and hang ups in the browser. They took into account the feedback generated by Beta users and reports sent in by the Windows Error Reporting tool....

This is the latest on Twitter right now. Apple has released a new version of Safari 4 Beta. It’s loaded up with loads of features and seems pretty impressive so far. It has Cover Flow built right in along with a Google Chrome look. Even has a nice welcome video very similar to the OS X welcome video. It has been reviewed over at ibrokesomething,...

Apple has just released Safari 4 Beta for Windows and OS X, and it sure is amazing to say the least. If Google Chrome blew you away, be prepared for the onslaught of features by the new Safari 4 Beta. Featuring a blazing fast new Nitro JavaScript Engine on Webkit and with an Acid3 score of 100, it’ll knock your socks off.
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Just came across this on Neowin, Windows Internet Explorer 8 code has gone gold, or in normal word, finalized on 21st February. This has been proved by Russian website Wzor with the following screenshot.
Microsoft is preparing to release this final build, version 8.0.6001.18691, to Connect, Technet and MSDN users before a public RTW ( release...

I’ve been using Hotmail regularly since a year now. I had shifted over to Gmail, but switched back somehow. But, I haven’t been a fan of the wave 3 updates so far in Hotmail. It has gone downhill in some departments while improved in others. Of course they can’t satisfy everybody’s taste, but I haven’t seen many people happy with...
The Microsoft Surface Team Blog has posted a video of a cool new demo application which is a News Reader using a 360 degree globe-like interface. The news and videos are fetched from MSNBC.com. The touch capabilities of the Surface make it look amazing with panning, zooming and flick scrolling. The way videos are handled on the Surface with...
Small Basic, ( which I had reviewed here and here ) has been updated to v0.3 now with some new features and bug fixes. Small Basic is aimed to teach programming to beginners and has a very simple feature set and user friendly interface. A great tool to get kids as well as beginners alike to programming without making them nervous with...

The second I’m a PC ad from the Rookies marketing campaign is out. This time we see Alexa, aged 7, teach us how to make panoramic photos using Windows Live Photo Gallery. Another cute ad by Microsoft, and actually makes you want to use the product if you don’t already. Let’s see if they plan to extend these Rookies ads to other Windows...