The Bing Team announced today that Bing will be getting another important update, one that tailors search queries to you. The update to Bing will take into account your location, finding surrounding restaurants and businesses to return more accurate results. The second addition will be using your previous searches on Bing, generating personalized results based [...]

The Windows Live team has announced that Hotmail now has the ability to use aliases to help you secure and manage your email. With the new feature, you can now manage multiple email aliases with one single Hotmail account. The new feature allows you to create a new unique alias to help sort your email, [...]

It's possible to argue that the adoption of any modern mobile OS is contingent on the homebrew community. The ChevronWP7 team initially took the lead and even met with Microsoft to work out details for homebrew on WP7, but that has not stopped other groups from pursuing their own jailbreaking opportunities. Jaxbot of Windowsphonehacker.com has successfully unlocked [...]

Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 has sold more than 300 million licenses so far, meaning it is still the fastest-selling operating system. Windows 7 has been available to the masses for 15 months. "To put that in perspective, 300 million is roughly the combined number of households in North American and in Europe," a [...]

Microsoft has reportedly asked Intel to create a 16-core Atom processor that would be used in the company's servers. Speaking at The Linley Group Data Center Conference, Microsoft engineer Dileep Bhandarkar suggests that Intel's Xeon chips require too much power for their higher speeds and there's a "huge opportunity" to improve energy efficiency by outfitting [...]

Leaked screenshots showing an installer that specifically references Windows 8 have shown up for the first time. My Digital Life forum user "canouna" posted them, though they're clearly marked as having been taken by Zukona, an infamous leaker during the early Windows 7 development days. We've embedded one of the screenshots below. If you'd like [...]

What is tethering is the first thing that comes to a new buyer of the phone. Let me state the very basic definition of tethering if you guys may not know what it is. This is how Wikipedia defines the process: “Tethering is a method for connecting a computer to the internet via an internet-capable [...]

The Windows Phone 7 'phantom' data has been something of a mystery, but with Microsoft giving their diagnoses that it appears to be third-party software as being the source of the problem, Rafael Rivera took a closer look into the matter. Rafael took a look into the feedback tool built within Windows Phone 7 and [...]