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Source - Over 30 Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones coming by year end - Ars Technica

Link - Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Read Further - That's one way to get Silverlight on a mobile device: Port it to Moblin Linux | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Source - Zend, Microsoft, IBM join forces to simplify cloud-app devlopment for PHP coders | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Microsoft has released the first update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It fixes application compatibility problems some users have been experiencing. Full Story: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/windows-7-application-compatibility-update-for-august-2009.ars

There are many materials which can help you learn how to use your Windows Home Server to its full potential. These items include things such as books, videos, and our product guide. There are some great books about Windows Home Server including Windows Home Server Unleashed and the Windows Home Server Bible.If you are more of a visual learner, HP has created a number of “How To” videos and demos which walk you through the different features of your Home Server. Train Signal is another company that utilizes videos as a great way to provide information about Windows Home Server. The Windows Home Server training created by Train Signal has many great features. It includes over 13 hours of interactive video instruction covering all of...

Microsoft is working on a new tablet device called the Courier. We've seen something like it before though, and it was called Codex. Full Story: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-courier-tablet-prototype-reminds-us-of-codex.ars

Source - Google brings Chrome's renderer to IE with browser plugin - Ars Technica

Further info - Microsoft: Windows Live and Mobile Services unprofitable - Ars Technica

Link - Latest Windows Embedded CE includes Silverlight - Ars Technica

Source - Microsoft buys Interactive Supercomputing, kills top product - Ars Technica

Since the first tweet went out on the #WinWin7 Twitter Contest, the Windows Outreach Team on Microsoft’s official Windows Twitter account @MSWindows has been busy giving away some great (and somewhat goofy) prizes to their followers. The best part, through, is that I hear that things are just heating up. Here’s a recap of what they’ve given away in the #WinWin7 promotion so far: 7 piping hot pizzas delivered right to followers’ doors 7 pounds of candy to satisfy followers’ penchants for sugar $7.77 in shiny Andrew Jackson dollars and pennies 7 Microsoft keyboards and mice (PC mice, not live mice, that’d get messy) @WindowsGamer gave away some signed Warhammer art books 2 gaming keyboards from...

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This is part three of my Widget Anatomy series which which will explain the ins and outs of the Widget Framework that is shipping as part of Windows Mobile 6.5.  In this installment I will discuss how to squeeze the last drop of performance out of the Widget framework to ensure all our Widgets are interactive, alive and fun to use while being good mobile citizens and not draining the user’s battery dry in the process. All good things JavaScript is a cool language. It’s simple to learn, use, and understand but it really can get us into a lot of trouble if not used wisely. this is true on all platforms but we must pay special attention to its implications while developing for a mobile platform. So, just because we are among...

Read more - Microsoft's Bing search share up to 9.3 percent | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Source - Microsoft is supposedly stealing Apple retail staff - Ars Technica

Source - Microsoft trims MVP benefits, allows shareholders say on executives' pay | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Last week, embedded GPS chip maker u-blox announced support for Windows 7’s Sensor and Location Platform. Windows 7 has built in “location awareness” using the new Windows Sensor and Location Platform. PCs with u-blox’s AMY-5M chip or their PCI-5S/PCM-5S receiver cards with Windows 7 can now be “location-aware” with u-blox’s new Windows 7 driver available for download here. There is a u-blox GPS chip inside the Microsoft GPS dongle that ships with Streets and Trips 2009. I went out and grabbed a copy for myself to try out making Windows 7 on my laptop location-aware.   I plugged the dongle in, installed the u-blox Windows 7 driver, and the GPS dongle appeared as a sensor in Windows 7. I of course enabled the u-blox GPS...

Read more - Microsoft remains third most valuable brand, Apple in top 20 - Ars Technica