In this edition of The Midweek Download, we’ve got stories from Building Windows 8, the re-designed Windows logo, Windows Phone evangelists, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and more. Check ‘em out! Three from Building Windows 8. If you can’t get enough news on Windows 8, check out these three new posts from Building Windows 8 – reliably [...]

Last week, Microsoft launched msnNOW, a new service from MSN at now.msn.com, created to help you stay in the know. msnNOW is the first service to surface the latest buzz from Facebook, Twitter, Bing and BreakingNews.com, all in one place. Obviously, we here at Microsoft think it’s pretty cool, but we’d like to know which [...]

In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got the scoop on the launch of msnNOW, a new and improved Facebook app for Windows Phone and a new Microsoft Research project called Layerscape. MSN launches msnNOW to keep you in the know. Ever feel like you have to jump from site to site in order to [...]

In this edition of The Midweek Download, we’ve stories on Windows on ARM, a distinguished Microsoft engineer named to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a profile on members of the Windows Server team and much more. Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture. This Feb. 9 post on Building Windows 8 (penned by Steven [...]

In this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on Xbox 360 ending 2011 as the number-one selling console in the world, a record breaking year for Microsoft’s Employee Giving Campaign, Safer Internet Day and a super-duper cool slideshow on a slew of new thin Windows 7 laptops. Xbox 360 maintains lead in U.S. console [...]

Kicking off 2012, Xbox 360 continues to lead the console market, turning in another month as the best-selling console in the U.S. NPD highlights from January include: · Xbox 360 sold more than 270,000 units in January, maintaining the number-one console spot in the U.S. This marks the thirteenth straight month Xbox 360 was the [...]

Editor’s Note: This post, co-authored by Kathleen Hogan, co-chair of the 2011 Microsoft Giving Campaign and Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Services, and S. Somasegar, co-chair of the 2011 Microsoft Giving Campaign and Corporate Vice President, Developer Division, was originally posted on the Microsoft Citizenship Blog. We share one the best part-time jobs in the [...]

This edition of The Midweek Download has stories on power consumption in Windows 8, a new version of Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone devs, the expansion of the Windows Phone Marketplace to five new markets and much more. Here’s the latest from Building Windows 8. “Minimizing the power consumption of your PC while maximizing [...]