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Supersite Microsoft does provide a way to make your Xbox LIVE profile portable, but it comes with an important trade-off that makes it less than desirable for some users. Here's how it works, and why you may--or may not--want to try it. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: More free calling from Gmail and Kindle 3 success. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro In a year in which Apple arguably should have had much tighter control over its product quality, the company instead is roaring ahead. ... View the full article

Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss how Microsoft really did sell 1.5 million units of Windows Phone, PS3 as a set-top box and why Paul thinks the WD TV Live Hub may be the best option out there for Windows users, a rumored new version of Windows on the ARM platform, the HP PalmPad, and last-minute holiday tech gift picks. ... View the full article

Supersite Dmitry Lyalin's TWiT app for Windows Phone 7 is a great example of what happens when a developer combines the unique user experiences of Windows Phone with truly excellent content. ... View the full article

Supersite Sony's PlayStation 3 is a leading-edge video game console, but does it have what it takes to compete with dedicated digital media set-top boxes in the living room? ... View the full article

Supersite Microsoft fixed the Xbox 360's hardware problems in 2010 with the release of the S consoles. Now it needs to turn its attention the Xbox 360's software and services, both of which are in need of similar attention. ... View the full article

Supersite Today:Â Christmas Eve Eve, a gadget list for the Apple-less, today's episode of Windows Weekly. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro I've always felt that Greatest Hits albums are cheap, but the end of the year is a natural time for reflection, and when I look back on the past year of UPDATE commentaries, I see an interesting set of trends emerge. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including the truth about Windows Phone 7 sales, some good news about Windows Phone Marketplace, a critical flaw in all versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla's plans for a Do Not Track feature in Firefox, an adult-themed Kinect game, Microsoft's decision to kill Office Genuine Advantage, and the coming holiday long weekend. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Stay updated on Windows 8, IE 9, and Office 2010 in 2011 with the latest from your favorite expert on all things Microsoft. ... View the full article

Supersite Tech news and tidbits of the day, from around the web, including a holiday miracle, new IE 9 performance demos, a new social networking service, and more Apple hubris. ... View the full article

It’s always interesting to look back at the end of the year and see what earned us our supper — and your clicks. Were there any constant themes or trends? View the full article

Windows IT Pro Tech enthusiasts who have been flummoxed by Microsoft's slower-than-molasses reactions to new market trends such as motion gaming (Wii, 2006) smartphones (iPhone, 2007), and tablet computing (iPad, 2010) got a bit of good news this week: The software giant is finally porting its Windows operating system to non-PC, thin and light hardware systems, opening up core product line to a new generation of devices. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Hewlett-Packard will announce its own iPad competitor, the webOS-based PalmPad, next month at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The PalmPad will join a growing crowd of iPad wannabes which includes RIM's PlayBook, a number of Android-based tablets like the Galaxy Tab, and a host of PC-based tablets from Microsoft and its partners. ... View the full article

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft will announce at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) a version of Windows that will work on ARM.If I were a betting woman, I’d bet against them on this one. View the full article

Microsoft is launching a new HTML5 Labs Web site, where the company will prototype “early and not yet fully stable drafts” of specifications from the W3C and other standards bodies. View the full article

Supersite Tech news and tidbits of the day, from around the web, including the countdown to Christmas and a lot of information about the Xbox 360 and video game consoles in general. ... View the full article

On December 21, in an article on its Web site for the press, Microsoft officials said that its phone partners have sold “over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks” they were available. View the full article

Windows IT Pro The world is moving inexorably to cloud computing, smart mobile devices, and web-based applications, and away from rich but hard to manage client applications that are deployed locally to individual desktops. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro On Tuesday, Microsoft unexpectedly broke its silence about Windows Phone 7 sales and announced that its partners sold over 1.5 million devices in the first six weeks of availability. Additionally, the company plans to release several software updates in the next couple of months. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Ever since ex-Microsoft executive Stephen Elop suddenly and unexpectedly bolted from the software giant to run ailing mobile handset maker Nokia, rumors have swirled that he would engineer an alliance between the two firms and bring Microsoft's Windows Phone software to Nokia. This week, the rumors are back. ... View the full article

The December update to my Microsoft Codename Tracker chart is done and ready for download. There are a bunch of new codenames in this month’s update, including one I’ve been chasing for a while: “Thunderbay.” Thunderbay isn’t a product codename it’s an Entertainment and Devices strategy codename. I provide more details on Microsoft Thunderbay [...] View the full article

Microsoft has started external developer testing of a number of interrelated parallel/distributed technologies for Windows Server that are part of the codename “Dryad” family. View the full article

Supersite Tech news and tidbits of the day, from around the web, including the first Call of Duty: Black Ops Map Pack, two high-profile Google failures (Nexus S, Google TV), and Microsoft's quiet cancellation of Office Genuine Advantage. ... View the full article