When Microsoft introduced a preview of its email service Outlook last year, it looked like its predecessor Hotmail would stick around. Now, Hotmail is being nudged out by Outlook. Hotmail will soon be a thing of the past. That’s because Microsoft is making its email service outlook available world wide. Ultimately transferring 300 million hotmail users in the process. The transition will be gradual.  ...

A group of companies including Microsoft, Nokia, and Oracle has filed a new antitrust complaint in the EU, alleging that Google’s Android mobile OS gives an unfair advantage to the company’s mobile applications. The group, called Fairsearch Europe, states in a press release that while the core Android OS is free, OEMs that want to license Google’s mobile apps like Maps, YouTube, or the Play ...

By Paul Hillman Can I cook, or what? The “bake-off” I promised, comparing my old iPhone 4 and my new Windows 8 Nokia Lumia 920, and my iPad to the new Microsoft Surface, has produced some serious food for thought. The migration to my new Win 8 phone has gone really well. The hardware is good – if enormous – but the operating system is even better. The user interface is intuitive, and adds ...

By Peter Svensson, Associated Press NEW YORK — Can’t decide if you want a PC or tablet? Now you won’t have to. With the release of Windows 8, computer makers are doing their best to blur the boundaries with an array of devices that mash keyboards and touch screens together in different ways. Some of these configurations are new, while others have appeared and disappeared on the ...

Here at its mysterious, last-minute press event in Los Angeles, Microsoft just confirmed it will sell its own Microsoft-branded Windows 8 RT tablet under the Surface badge. Measuring just 9.3mm thick, the Surface for Windows RT is built around an angled, all-magnesium VaporMg case that weighs just under 1.3 pounds, with an NVIDIA-made ARM chip powering the whole affair. Microsoft’s hardware ...

When you learned about the Doppler Effect in high school physics class—the wave frequency shift that occurs when the source of the wave is moving, easily illustrated by a passing ambulance—you probably didn’t envision it helping control your computer one day. But that’s exactly what a group of researchers are doing at Microsoft Research, the software giant’s Redmond, Washington-based ...

A blog post on the ‘Building Windows 8 blog’ unveils the steps Microsoft have taken to make SkyDrive a more powerful online storage service than ever before. What is SkyDrive? In case you need a primer, SkyDrive is a service from Microsoft that grants you 7GB of free online storage. Traditionally this has required logging into SkyDrive through your browser to view files and upload ...