We noticed a frequent and unresolved issue for Netflix which involves Micrsoft’s Silverlight (alternative to Flash). The issue has been mentioned many times in blogs and forums–even on Microsoft’s own product forums. The error prevents users from watching Netflix streaming movies, and the error message displayed by the application also contain some “self help” instructions [...]

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Microsoft’s advertising is all over the place. From I’m a PC to random attempts at being funny, the software giant can’t quite pin down a voice. Below, is Microsoft’s new video ad for it’s mobile initiative: Jogging Really | New Windows Phone 7 Official Ad. Jogging Really | New Windows Phone 7 Official Ad

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Something Firefox just cannot do.

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Microsoft issued a letter to Cryptome.org essentially ending the battle regarding Cryptome’s publication of a confidential document regarding how Microsoft can provide user information to the Government in the case of possible criminal activity. Cryptome is a watchdog site that publishes sensitive corporate and government documents. Microsoft had issued a complaint against the website and [...]

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A new service called Business Productivity Online Suite Federal was implemented for the Federal Government by Microsoft. The goal of the project was to achieve better security than the traditional cloud infrastructure by Microsoft such as fingerprinting as part of background checks and biometric access control. This cloud service by Microsoft is becoming an attractive [...]

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The AMD Radeon HD 5670 will be the first graphics card to support Direct X for under 100 dollars–essentially allowing “next generation” graphics for nearly any budget. The graphics card will be smaller than previous models, and yet it will still support features like DirectCompute 5.0, Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming and DX11, such as tessellation, in [...]

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Microsoft and Nokia, once fierce enemies in the mobile industry, have decided to team up–placing Microsoft Office software on Nokia cellphones. As phones are increasingly used to do things that once only computers would do, Microsoft is charging into the mobile landscape seeking to fend off the threat from Google. Google has posed a threat [...]

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Sharepoint by Microsoft could be described as a “jack of all trades / master of none”. While Microsoft sales have fell for the first time in history, Sharepoint has climbed. The software can be used to build websites, as content management for those websites, as a business intelligence tool for corporate business, as a collaboration [...]

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Microsoft will be moving it’s Azure headquarters out of Washington for tax purposes. The Azure data center is located in Quincy, Washington. Microsoft informed customers that applications would need to be moved from the Quincy data center. Soon Microsoft will roll out a tool to automate the move of applications to it’s San Antonio, Texas [...]

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A deal has been struck between Microsoft and Yahoo for coordinating search efforts to increase market share and innovation. With Yahoo and Bing combining, they will now command 26% of US search volume. Google however controls 70% of US search volume. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s Chief Executive, stated that investors still don’t understand the deal that [...]

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