Zune 3.0 is now available, go get it! Unlike some vendors who shall not be named, 3.0 brings all the new features to generation one devices. Brown Zune, you never looked so good.

[Thanks, Adam H.]

Original post by Thomas Ricker

As promised, Gates and Seinfeld made their television pair-up debut tonight, in an advertisement for something or other. We were sad to see Seinfeld sans-bee suit, and Gates is lost in Costanza-isms, but we might just be looking at a beautiful friendship here. Video is after the break.

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So we know that Microsoft is gearing up to launch those new “Blue Track” mice on September 9th, but Ars Technica says that there’s a good chance we’ll be getting new webcams and — surprise! — Zunes as well. Sadly, the new mice might still be the most exciting things on the ticket — the …

 Those Apple “Get a Mac” ads have enlarged been an annoyance to Microsoft and to Bill Gates in particular. No surprise as an emboldened Apple with rising market share has continued to ratchet up the venomous quips like, “fear of switching is the foundation of customer loyalty for PCs,” found in…

On Wednesday night, Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft habitable Labs, is graduating from its “ooh, that’s pretty” status to being a viable Web service for consumers.

The technology, which takes a grouping of photographs and stitches them into a faux 3D environment, can now be imple…

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All smartass-ery aside, we’re pleased to see Microsoft’s attempt to more fully engage the development community as it marches towards a 2010 release of Windows 7. The 1,000-strong engineering team is comprised o…

Microsoft’s been touting its “fastest annual revenue growth since 1999,” which resulted in a princely $60.42 billion dollars in its final fiscal year, but the number that has us rapt? Vista licenses sold since launch about 18 months ago: 180m. Damn, not too shabby a clip — particularly consider…

Microsoft’s been touting its “fastest annual revenue growth since 1999,” which resulted in a princely $60.42 billion dollars in its final fiscal year, but the number that has us rapt? Vista licenses sold since launch about 18 months ago: 180m. Damn, not too shabby a clip — particularly consider…

Yahoo! has rejected the 10,247th buyout proposal to period from Microsoft. The New York Times reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and investor Carl Icahn made another offer to purchase Yahoo!’s search commerce on Friday night — and gave the company 24 hours to reply. considering we’ve seen…

J Allard, previously of Veep stature, has been elevated to the position of CXO (Chief eXperience Officer) and CTO of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division. That puts the man synonymous with the Zune, Xbox, and once questionable, 80’s style in charge of “the technical architecture and user e…