Today, were announcing two new mice designed specifically for Windows. These are the first mice from Microsoft , giving you quick and easy access to specific features in Windows – and, in the case of the Sculpt Comfort Mouse, more advanced functionality in Windows 8. The Sculpt Comfort Mouse is a perfect companion to the Sculpt Comfort Keyboard we announced last fall. The Sculpt Comfort Mouse has a touch sensitive blue strip on its side called the Windows touch tab that makes it easy to navigate...

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Over the paste few days, we have been reading comments and message boards following the Xbox One announcement. There are a few questions regarding used games. I wanted to clarify and provide this official statement: The ability to trade in and resell games is important to gamers and to Xbox. Xbox One is designed to support the trade in and resale of games. Reports about our policies for trade in and resale are inaccurate and incomplete. We will disclose more information in the near future.

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While Tuesday Xbox One presentation answered some questions about Microsoft upcoming system, it left just as many or more unsettled. We got a chance to sit down with General Manager of Redmond Game Studios and Platforms Matt Booty to try and get some more answers, and while he wasnt able to answer some of the most pressing questions about the system, he was able to delve deep into some of the technical details. My first question had to do with the 30,000 server cloud architecture that Microsoft...

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Bing is evolving into more than just a Web search engine for Microsoft. It also gives the company a way to harness and make use of data using Microsoft myriadmachine learning and computation capabilities. And though it may be hard to see through all the Scroggled fog, Bing may be more important as a service than a mere search engine to Microsoft going forward. This week, as part of its Xbox One reveal, Microsoft execs didnt call out Bing by name much, if at all. However, as a subsequent post on...

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Microsoft, for its part, has said that it happy to include ads in its YouTube Windows Phone application if Google allows it and provides access to an official API. It appears that Google is now willing to grant Microsoft access to its official API, following complaints from the software giant that Google has previously prevented it from offering consumers a fully featured YouTube app for Windows Phone. Microsoft move to release its own full YouTube Windows Phone application, instead of a simple...

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The Windows Phone 8 version of the official YouTube app is getting a major update this morning; Its been completely redesigned to make the most of Windows Phone 8 features. If you already have it, watch for an update notification on your phone. If you dont, grab it here. The app just published, so it might take a few hours to show up.

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With the understanding that some of this information must be placed in the unconfirmed category, I’ve heard from two sources now that Microsoft has an interesting goal for its well received tablets: 50 percent of all Windows tablet sales in the coming year. That bit may seem somewhat extreme, but here’s a shocker you may have missed: Microsoft already achieved this goal in Q1 2013, when Surface devices were indeed 50 percent of all Windows tablets sold. Of course, as the firm’s...

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Earlier this month, Microsoft added an improved all photos experience to SkyDrive.com, new document thumbnail layouts, full resolution photo uploads for global Windows Phones, as well as under the hood performance tweaks to speed up uploading times. However, the SkyDrive team is also looking at ways to improve the service, and LiveSide has recently learnt that Microsoft is planning to add support for uploading and viewing 3D panorama within SkyDrive.com in the future. LiveSide understands that...

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