Microsoft Support & Discussions

Supersite This week's mailbag is a bit different, dealing with just a single topic: Weight loss. Here, I discuss how I am losing weight this year, why this will work for anyone, and why the conventional wisdom about weight loss is wrong. ... View the full article

Microsoft is making the latest version of its hosted CRM offering available worldwide on January 17, three days ahead of the official “global launch” of its CRM 2011 product family. View the full article

What’s going on with Microsoft’s private-cloud-in-a-box — its Windows Azure Appliances? No one’s really saying…. View the full article

Supersite Today: A holiday in the US, Apple screws over publishers again (this time magazine publishers), an argument that Microsoft is in fact innovative, a dubious anniversary for a dubious online encyclopedia, and another Steve Jobs health scare. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft’s offering a security solution for consumers and small businesses and Google’s previewing Chrome—what’s not to like? Surprisingly, a few things. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro For Apple fans, there is nothing scarier than the recurrent medical issues the company's CEO, Steve Jobs, has had over the past several years. Jobs' increasingly frequent absenteeism from the company has been caused by a host of serious medical conditions that have always been purposefully hidden from the public, and, it should be noted, from shareholders ... View the full article

Supersite Today, Ed Bott gives some needed Windows Phone advice to Microsoft, rumors of an iPad with a Retina Display, Consumer Reports opines on Verizon iPhone 4, HP's iPad compete "strategy," and Dreamcast games for Xbox 360 and PC. ... View the full article

Supersite Like the Reese's Peanut Butter cup before it, the Amazon Kindle app on Windows Phone is two great tastes--or in this case, platforms--that go together. It's my favorite Windows Phone app so far, and one of only two third-party apps placed on my own phone's home screen. ... View the full article

Supersite Saturday's update includes a new Google links, a few Apple links, and a bit about some Dell laptops. ... View the full article

Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss PC sales in Q4 and CY 2010, Microsoft's wrong-headed Windows Everywhere strategy, some expectations on video game sales, Microsoft's final nail in the WHS Vail coffin, some Windows Phone 7 news, a few thoughts about iPhone 4 on Verizon, and Bob Muglia's exit from Microsoft. ... View the full article

Leakers seem to have gotten their hands on what may be the final Windows 7 Service Pack 1/Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 builds. It seems like a good time to revisit what will be in the first SP update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. View the full article

Supersite Today: three time-wasting stories from ZD, how the iPad continually fails to save publishing, a realistic MacWorld 2011 preview, a new WebMatrix, a possible IE 9 RC release date, and some confusion over the world's fascination with the iPhone. ... View the full article

The December 2010 comScore search data is out. While Microsoft is continuing to make modest gains, Microhoo is not. View the full article

Supersite Sometime soon, Microsoft will finalize its Service Pack 1 (SP1) release for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Today, however, a near-final version of the service pack leaked online for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of the OSes, and I took the time to install the build on my main Windows 7 desktop. Here's what's really happening. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including the apparent release of SP1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, a record December and number-two showing for the Xbox 360 in December, a video game sales paradox, a workaround for the latest IE vulnerability, RIM PlayBook sales expectations, Intel surges and PC and server sales, Microsoft mocks Google for H.264 decision, and Mozilla may actually soon release a new version of its only real product. ... View the full article

Microsoft is building a new management tool, code-named “Concero,” that will allow customers to oversee both on-premises and cloud-based services. View the full article

Supersite Today: A mountain of snow, an interim fix for IE, a lot of rumination over Google's decision to remove H.264 from Chrome, Ballmer's 11th anniversary as Microsoft CEO, a partisan take on the "innovative" Motorola Atrix, a hilarious fake tweet from Steve Jobs, and Apple bias in the media. ... View the full article

Eleven years ago today, January 13, 2000, Steve Ballmer was appointed CEO of Microsoft. Increasingly, many, including me, are wondering how many more years he’ll continue in that role. View the full article

Windows IT Pro The PC sales figures for Q4 2010 and for the year are out, and both IDC and Gartner are claiming that the iPad had a negative impact. However, looking at the firm's initial predictions for 2010 and at preliminary iPad unit sales figures, I'm not so sure that's the case. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: A Category 5 Death Storm disrupts work, eWeek wants Ballmer out, Microsoft mocks H.264 removal from Chrome, a conspiracy theory, Microsoft patches reboot my PC, no IE fix, a new Android version, Apple's predicted quarterly results, Mac sites I actually like, Apple CEO Steve Jobs' compensation, and video game unit sales from December. ... View the full article

Supersite Moving the iPhone 4 to Verizon Wireless isn't really going to solve many problems for current (or potential) users. Indeed, it may cause some problems of its own. Here's what we know so far. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the term "App Store," arguing that it is generic, has been used by many companies, and should be open to competitors. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft announced an expansion of its Office 365 service to the education market. ... View the full article