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With Nokia’s recent issues with poor sales, rumors are once again burst that the mobile giant is batting its eyelashes at other operating system with the hopes of improving its fortunes. Could it be Microkia? According to Engadget, it’s expected that Nokia will announce a new partnership at Capital Markets Day next Friday. The report strongly bruits with Nokia recently appointed CEO Stephen Elop (from Microsoft) and has clearly marching orders to take Nokia in a new, more profitable direction making Windows Phone 7 as the operating system of choice moving forward, with Google’s Android also touted as a possible alternative to in-house software such as Symbian and MeeGo....

Google set up a sting operation (!) in an attempt to catch Microsoft red-handed stealing their search results in Bing. Interestingly, Bing doesn’t deny this completely. The whole sting operation is amazing and it started from Danny Sullivan’s post and resulting Microsoft’s response on Bing search quality. uld ever enter into Google. These searches returned no matches on Google or Bing — or a tiny number of poor quality matches, in a few cases — before the experiment went live....

Microsoft announced the availability of WebMatrix, a free web development tool designed to help website developers of all skill levels easily create, customize and publish websites to the Internet. It includes a set of tools to create new websites, using code provided through a variety of available templates or using free open source Web applications, like WordPress, Joomla!, DotNetNuke and Umbraco. WebMatrix provides all the features you need in a single unified interface....

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 will kick off tomorrow at around 8:00 PM IST Thursday, January 6, commencing with the keynote address from Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft. So, what you can expect from Microsoft at this four day International event? Reports are coming in that Microsoft may announce a set-top box in a reply to the Apple TV and Google TV. You may also expect Windows Phone 7.1 with copy/paste functionality with the addition of CDMA-based Windows Phone devices...

Girish Kundlani speaks about Windows Azure and its benefits in an exclusive interview with MSDN blog team as a part of their ‘Real World Windows Azure’ series. Windows Azure is the real cloud computing platform that allows Microsoft datacenters to host and run applications. Rather than providing software that customers can install and run themselves on their own computers, Windows Azure today is a service: Customers use it to run applications and store data on Internet-accessible machines owned by Microsoft....

More than a decade ago, Bill Gates introduced the world an entirely new concept of computing – Tablet PC. However, the tablet boom really kicked off when Apple brought the magical iPad. And here is the exciting news from The New York Times - Next month, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will give it another try, presenting a slew of new slates that it hopes will offer some competition to the Apple iPad, which has quickly become the leader in this market....

Kinect for Xbox 360 that brings controller-free gaming to the living room got an enthralling response of over 1 million units sold in the first ten days. On November 24, Microsoft India has introduced Kinect for Xbox 360 for the Indian audience. Microsoft will offer Kinect in two editions - Standalone bundle and All-in-one bundle. The standalone Kinect for Xbox 360 unit along with Kinect Adventures disc would be sold for Rs....

Microsoft Windows completes 25 years today. On November 20, 1985, the first version Windows 1.0 was released. Can you recall how Windows 1.0 looked like? To be frank, I was born in the same year and no real hands-on experience for me until Windows 95! . Oh, and of course Windows 8. I hardly know much about it at the moment except the leaked slides. Let’s hope it is as well received as Windows 7 has been so far....

Are you an owner of a smartphone? Are you frustrated with trying the right Mobile App for your device? Do you develop Apps and want to know the contenders of your idea? Discover the world of Mobile using Mimvi. Mimvi enables you to quickly discover Mobile Apps, Mobile Content and Mobile Products across all devices and platforms, including - Apple’s iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry, Windows and Nokia devices – all at one single place!...

Windows 7 has been a powerful success for Microsoft. As an evolutionary upgrade to Vista, it patched almost all of Vista’s glaring holes: broken driver support, sluggish performance and the horribly annoying User-Account Control. It sold more than 240 million licenses in one year. Asked about the riskiest product bet the Redmond crew is currently developing, the answer is not Windows Phone 7 or Bing or even Office Web Apps - its fearless leader Steve Ballmer took no time in answering “the next release of Windows....