I’m excited to announce that Western Digital’s WD TV Live media player has earned the Compatible with Windows 7 logo! For those of you who already own this device, Western Digital began releasing a firmware update (Release 1.02.21) for the WD TV Live late last week that brings support for Windows 7’s

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A lot has changed in the three years since we launched the first Windows Live Photo Gallery. For starters, there are a lot more people taking photos. About 10 billion more photos will be taken in the US in 2010 than in 2007—rising from about 47 billion to 57

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In case you missed it, we let you know a few weeks ago that Windows Home Server – along with our very own Senior Product Manager Mark Pendergrast – is being featured on the national TV show, Designing Spaces. Well, today’s the day for our big debut on the small screen!

Be sure to check it out on

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Due to the popularity of the first Windows 7 theme of the best Bing homepage images, the Bing Team has released a second Windows 7 theme today was some more incredible images for your Windows 7 desktop. You can download the Bing’s Best 2 Windows 7 theme here. And just in case you never

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We’ve posted quite a bit recently about the work we’re doing to prevent spam on Windows Live (Just say no to bogus Messenger invitations, Preventing spam and phishing using e-mail authentication, Spam, phishing, and other annoyances, and Fighting the war on spam).

In our fight against spam, we sometimes

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This is another way of selling by utilizing vending machines. How it really works is that a lot of diverse goods, mostly nuts, gumballs, toys and sweet goodies, are put together into a single machine, though still in individual containers. Once the buyer puts in their money one of the products is dispensed although the individual does not get a

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The first time we used ‘The CSS Corner’ as a general blog post heading, Chris Wilson sent this feedback: “Many readers will think the post is about border-radius”. The very first comment proved him right within hours.

Today, CSS Corner is about the border-radius property, by far the most heavily requested feature

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With our recent update to Windows Virtual PC that allows it to run on systems without hardware virtualization support – I have been flooded by a stream of people asking what hardware it will run on / if it will run on their system.

The short answer is: If it can run Windows 7, it can run Windows Virtual PC.  Note

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At MIX 10 we showed how we’re building on new Windows technologies like Direct2D, DirectWrite and XPS to enable Internet Explorer 9 to render all standards-based web content – text, images, video and SVG – using the power of the GPU.

In this blog post we’ll review the major improvements for web developers and users that come from

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One of our objectives with Internet Explorer 9 is taking full advantage of modern PC hardware to make the browser faster. We’re excited about hardware acceleration because it fundamentally improves the performance of websites. The websites that you use every day become faster and more responsive, and developers can create new classes of web applications through standards based markup that

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