It's that time of year again: Here come the year-end round-ups and look-aheads. First up is a list of the ten posts on this blog in 2008 that got the most page views and the most Talkbacks.
Microsoft has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to PC makers and those upgrading as of early January, officials said at the Consumer Electronics Show.
As Microsoft officials promised, the company has released this week to the general public the near-final Release Candidate test bits for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Server 2008 SP2.
The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some -- but not all -- of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube app.
Bloomberg is adding fuel to the rumor fires claiming that Microsoft may show off the tablet version of Windows 8 next week at the AllThingsD conference. Here's what to watch for, if and when that happens.
For the past few months, Microsoft has been touting the same handful of new Windows Server 2008 R2 features: DirectAccess, BranchCache and live migration with Hyper-V. But there are more than 100 new features in this 'minor' update to Windows Server. Here are 10 that IT pros might not know about -- but should.
Can Microsoft really add 97,000 apps to the Windows Store between now and January 2013? Or is someone in Redmond doing some funny figuring?
Legal wranglings aside, Microsoft is still powering PCs. Its prospects in the handheld and gadget space might be looking up, too.
This is one for all of you readers who've had trouble installing Windows Vista. Don't feel bad. Even some Microsoft developers -- who have the Vista team on premise -- can't manage to upgrade to Vista.
That didn't take long. A week after Microsoft announced it would amend Windows Vista so that its integrated Instant Search functionality won't hamper the performance of third-party desktop-search programs, Google has complained to the government again.