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Microsoft accidentally revealed an internal test version of its research design project “Tulalip” yesterday. A teaser landing page has been revealed by Fusible and it appears to be a new “Social Search” service by Microsoft as shown below. The company has been hosting these new details at www.socl.com. The site which is now taken offline reveals some interesting features which allows you to sign in using Facebook and Twitter. Message appeared on the home page:...

Ok. This one is a big leak! Earlier today, pictures and video of Nokia’s first man, CEO Stephen Elop announcing first Windows Phone to the company’s employees surfaced the blogosphere. And here is the important part of the video - Thanks

IT World’s Sando Villinger has some interesting findings in Microsoft’s next generation operating system – Windows 8. One of the known or unknown hidden features that various people have discovered since internal builds began leaking over couple of months is the new file system – Protogon. Microsoft recently demonstrated Windows 8 features in a press release. From the IT World article, I’ve also dug up traces of some underlying file system changes that I couldn’t quite make sense of, such as an entirely new file system driver called “NT Protogon FS driver”, which looks like a kernel mode driver for some sort of (yet unknown) file system called Protogon....

Microsoft has given a demonstration of their next generation operating system calling Windows 8. It appears to be a complete revamp of the Windows interface, designed around a tile system like that of Windows Phone 7, and focused on being equally accessible via touchscreen interface or mouse and keyboard. Earlier, we saw many posts related to Windows 8 in this blog, detailing leak plans, 8 minutes of installation and restoration, etc....

Just like Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market and Amazon’s Appstore for Android; Microsoft announced a web based version of Windows Marketplace in conjunction with WP7 Mango roll-out. You can read about the announcement of all new 500 features in Windows Phone 7 Mango in the last post here. The web version of Marketplace will launch with new OS Mango later this year and gives you a chance for discovering apps and games....

Microsoft yesterday provided the first look of the next release of Windows Phone code named “Mango” bringing 500 new features. This update will be available to all WP7 devices starting from Fall and the Redmond based firm also announced that new devices from Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE and Nokia (?) will come preloaded with Mango later this year. Some of the major features announced at the event include - Messaging threads, which integrate text, Facebook chat, and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation...

Its confirmed now! After Wall Street Journal’s report, All Things Digital has now confirmed that Microsoft just bought Skype for a huge amount of $8.5 billion. This deal to buy Internet telephone company Skype is officially going to be announced early tomorrow morning. Early reports indicated that Facebook and Google were also looking to acquire the telephony giant, but it was Microsoft with its highly aggressive bid which got them....

Do you remember Steve Ballmer toning ‘Developers, Developers, Developers…’ which had set the Internet surprise! Ballmer is quite passionate about technology and of course Developers. Here is the original version of that video taken from YouTube - Surprised? Now, this original video was remixed with fabulous lyrics. Listen now! This is a must hear for every developer and check out the lyrics - I’m a developer in many senses of the word...

In addition to Microsoft series of many labs (Office Labs, Fused Labs, Dev Labs…), it now added Business Intelligence (BI) Labs to it. These labs are meant for showcasing the technologies which can be later converted into full-fledged commercial products. BI Labs is a collection of experimental business intelligence projects and useful applications made available from internal sources across Microsoft. Following applications are available currently - PivotViewer Extension for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services...

Effective July 1, 2011, Microsoft has decided to increase retail price of its Certifications Exams. The price increase will vary from country to country and in India, the price change will be effective on Aug 1, 2011. According to the FAQ page: Microsoft recognizes the increased pressures on students and academic institutions during these challenging economic times. Although some of the prices for Microsoft Certification exams for students and academic institutions will increase, the discount will remain significant....