Thousands of Microsoft cloud users across Australia fell victim to a Microsoft Office 365 outage on March 16 that left them without access for nearly three hours.  The outage affected everything from Office 365 and Hotmail to SkyDrive and other Live cloud-based products. During the outage, users reported inabilities to access their inboxes or even, in an extreme case, that mailboxes ceased to exist.... 

A ‘so-called’ study that linked a user’s browser choice to his IQ [intelligence quotient] and concluded that Internet Explorer users were not as smart as those using other Web browsers is apparently fake and was an elaborate hoax, according to the person that initially made it viral. It has now emerged that the company’s domain name and website were only recently set up and... 

On the eve of it’s launch, Google has attacked Microsoft Office 365 – their blog post claims that Google’s Apps office suite is ‘for teams’ where as Microsoft’s new cloud-based Office 365 is more expensive and ‘for individuals’. But what’s it actually like to use Office 365, and is it really going to metamorphose your experience when compared to the desktop version of... 

Yesterday, Google, the world’s most important technology company set out its contempt for computing as we know it. Google declared at their I/O developer event in San Francisco that after six months in which only a prototype was available, laptops running Google’s Chrome operating system will finally go on sale in June for consumers, businesses and education. Google Chrome OS relies... 

Yes you read that correct; Microsoft wants Kinect to make you lazier with the Kinect Armchair! When Xbox 360 Kinect was released by Microsoft back in 2010, the tagline that came along with it read – “a controller-free gaming and entertainment experience by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform“. Since then, Kinect has broken the world record as ‘best selling tech gadget”... 

Who would have thought this when Microsoft bought rival Canesta (a leader in 3D sensing and gesture technology) that with this new technology MS was going to revolutionize the gesture gaming world? Microsoft’s Kinect has been named the fastest-selling tech gadget of all time after racking up sales of 10 million units since its launch in November. The hands-free game controller, which went on... 

Almost a decade back Microsoft created a monster; and now it seeks the web user’s help to kill it! Yes, we are indeed talking about hugely infamous, one and only — Internet Explorer 6 aka IE6; the monster that has ruined so many website designs and has given so many web developers sleep-less nights. But finally, Microsoft wants you to help send IE6 in to oblivion, and has officially set...