If you checked the Windows Personalization Gallery last week you might have noticed the quiet arrival of a lovely new Windows 7 theme: Candlelight. This theme brings the serene illumination of candles year-round to your desktop, with images not only of lighted tapers reflected in frosted windowpanes, but also of flickering

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Browser market share numbers are always interesting because they can be interpreted in a variety of ways. We’ve said for some time now that the thing we care about most is that the web experiences we all enjoy are getting better every day through a modern browser like Internet Explorer 9. The growth of IE9 on Windows

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I wanted to address an issue related to the SkyDrive release yesterday. For any of you who are using a Windows Phone, you may have noticed that if you had previously used the Office hub to view any of your OneNote notebooks or Office documents, you may have received a message that the items were deleted from

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Hi everyone. Today we’ve started delivering Windows Phone 7.5 to Dell Venue Pro handsets on AT&T.  If you (or friends or family members) haven’t installed the update yet, now’s the perfect time. You’ll find step-by-step instructions at Update Central.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we’re also continuing to deliver occasional firmware updates to specific Windows Phone models

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Here’s a variety of new Xbox Live games for Windows Phone that have touched down in the Marketplace today:

Ghostscape

I know Halloween is over, but Ghostscape ($2.99) is worth noting during any season. In this game you’re a paranormal investigator who must explore an old abandoned, and

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Way back in 2003, Jeffrey Zeldman wrote the seminal “Designing with Web Standards”, a book that among other things, encouraged developers not to write code for specific browsers, rather code against web standards that will work in any browser that has implemented the standards. That’s something the Internet Explorer team fundamentally agrees with – writing code once

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Microsoft Hardware is announcing today 3 limited edition mice that feature exclusive designs to celebrate the 2012 Chinese New Year – the Year of the Dragon.

I’ll start with the Arc Touch Mouse Year of the Dragon (which is my favorite of

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Jocelyn Lieppman is a senior at the University of Oregon who has traveled the world, wrestled for high school varsity, and will break out into camp songs on impulse. Originally from Seattle, she grew up in Houston, Texas. She currently works as a Microsoft Windows UCrew Student Representative at U of O. Adventure is in her heart, and as such

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Words provide endless ways to tell somebody what you’re thinking or feeling. But sometimes a picture says it all. In the world of smartphones, emoticons—also known by their Japanese name emoji—are one quick and fun way to express yourself in a text message.

Turns out Windows Phone 7.5 has a ton of built-in emoji—many of which were totally new to

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Last week, we shared our approach to designing a personal cloud storage service for billions of people. Today, we’re excited to release an upgrade to SkyDrive.com to address key feedback. You should expect to see the new SkyDrive release in the next few hours. Follow SkyDrive on Twitter so that you can be one of the first

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