Microsoft Support & Discussions

Supersite LogMeIn lets you remotely control a PC, similar to the Remote Desktop Connection (software included in Windows. And with the LogMeIn Ignition mobile client for iPad, iPhone (and iPod touch), and Google Android, you can access your Windows desktop, and its files, while on the go. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including ex-employees weighing in on Microsoft, Craig Mundie's controversial but not-so-crazy comments about the iPad and the future of mobile computing, IE 9 usage with Windows 7 users and the renewed browser wars, third party developers are at fault for most security vulnerabilities now, Windows Phone 7 not resonating with users, but is resonating with developers, and we don't need a crisis expert to know that Microsoft bungled WP7. ... View the full article

Supersite Amazon Cloud Drive is a new consumer-focused cloud storage service that is particularly well-suited, for now, to storing digital music. And when combined with the associated Cloud Player, Amazon is providing a near-complete replacement for iTunes and Windows Media Player. ... View the full article

Microsoft is filing its first ever official antitrust complaint on March 31. Not too surprisingly, it’s against Google. More surprisingly, Microsoft’s chosen the European Union antitrust courts — which have proven more foe than friend to Redmond — as the venue for the action. View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft today will formally launch an antitrust complaint against Google in Europe, alleging that the Internet giant has worked unfairly and illegally to prevent competition in online search. ... View the full article

Who is bringing the NFC technology to Windows Phone? How/when will it be rolled out? So many questions, so few answers…. View the full article

Mich Matthews, a 22-year Microsoft veteran and head of the company’s Central Marketing Group, is leaving the company this summer. View the full article

In the past few days, rumors of a possible leak of one of the newer Windows 8 internal builds have been gaining steam. View the full article

Microsoft will begin pushing Internet Explorer (IE) 9 to users in earnest starting at the end of June 2011, using its Windows Update mechanism, officials said this week. View the full article

Supersite in recent weeks, the fanboy furor of Windows 8 has risen to a crescendo, with screenshots being leaked by the usual Russian and Chinese suspects and reposted without credit on the usual English-speaking blogs. And I'm getting emails wondering why I'm not writing that much about Windows 8 yet. Here's what I can say for now. ... View the full article

Supersite Microsoft and its partners have done everything they can to prevent customers from getting the first real software update for Windows Phone. But you don't have to put up with this behavior. Here's how you can bypass the restrictions and get your Windows Phone up-to-date today. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro In an excerpt from his autobiography published in Vanity Fair today, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lashes out at his friend Bill Gates, describing how the mercurial billionaire took credit for Allen's work and diminished Allen's presumed role in the early successes of the software giant. The book, called "Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft," will be published April 17. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft this week issued a new filing in its legal challenge of Apple's App Store trademark, and is enlisting the help linguistics to help retort Apple's claims. As before, Microsoft's assertion is that the term App Store is too generic to trademark. And Apple has itself used the term generically in the past, Microsoft says. ... View the full article

Microsoft has begun to notify users of HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 handsets that the first two WP7 updates are now available for download. Some Orange and Vodafone/SFR users also are reporting the updates are arriving. View the full article

Supersite Microsoft announces the completion of Windows Home Server 2011 "Vail." ... View the full article

Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Windows Home Server 2011 product, codenamed “Vail,” company officials said on March 29. View the full article

Last we heard, even though Microsoft had kinned the Kin — its phone for the teen/20-something hipster set — the Kin Studio concepts were still not completely dead. Could the Kin Studio’s successor be “Mobile Studio”? View the full article

Supersite Microsoft has a number of reasons it feels that IE 9 is superior to the competition, but here's an unexpected benefit, according to the software giant: It's easier on your PC's battery life than the competition. ... View the full article

Supersite Microsoft announces an expansion of the Active Views functionality in Hotmail. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: Some humor and some serious thought about Nokia's adoption of Windows Phone 7, Google Docs is still primitive, Windows Thin PC, Google and antitrust, Firefox 4 is "slaughtering" IE 9 ... for now, more musings on the New York Times pay wall, Android tablets that want to be PCs, and Java's father joins Google. ... View the full article

It’s no secret that Nokia is expecting, hoping (and probably praying) that all of its Nokia smartphone users will become Windows Phone users in the not-so-distant future. But at least one market-research firm is counting on this happening by 2015. View the full article

Microsoft is moving full-steam ahead with its healthcare push, while Google may be pulling back — and possibly pulling out all together — from the electronic medical records space. View the full article

Windows IT Pro While I generally try to just focus on one topic here each week, there's some catching up to do, so please excuse the potpourri of topics. I wasn't able to attend MMS last week, so there's a bit from there, a follow-up about Windows Thin PC, and an update on Windows Phone. Let's jump in. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro The market researchers at IDC today revealed a startling prediction for the future of the smartphone industry: Although Android will continue to dominate the market over the next four years, as expected, Microsoft's Windows Phone—and not Apple's iPhone—will be the number-two player by 2015. And no, it's not April 1. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Online retailing giant Amazon launched its cloud-hosted file storage service, Cloud Drive, well ahead of anticipated competition from Apple. ... View the full article