Did you catch today’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show? Today’s show marked Day 3 in Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways (a segment she does regularly on her show). The theme of today’s segment was all about staying connected with your family and friends over the holidays. In honor of today’s theme, Ellen...

MICROSOFT SWEEPSTAKES FOR WINDOWS 7 WAU (WINDOWS ANYTIME UPGRADE) PRODUCT! OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES: These are the official rules that govern how the Microsoft Sweepstakes for Windows 7 WAU product promotion will operate. This promotion will be...

Calling all Mom Bloggers: this is your chance to win a conference pass, plus travel and expenses to one of the top female blog conferences of 2011! Windows is proud to be working with such a fine community of influential moms and to show our appreciation we’re providing sponsorship for one lucky winner...

The Windows Home Server Team has announced today the beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3). And if you’re running Windows 7, Windows Home Server PP3 comes with several new features designed to take advantage key Windows 7 features: Full Image-based Backups of Windows 7 PCs. After the Windows...

UPDATE (8/4/10, 10:47ET): Corrected the contest end date. I’m on my way to New York City with some of my Windows colleagues to attend BlogHer’10 , where we’ll join over 2,000 bloggers and journalists to share ideas about how to take advantage of technology to make our blogs more...

Last week I said “Keep it up, Acer!” after they released a pike of hot new notebooks. I guess they listened, because today they announced the brand new Acer Aspire AG7750 gaming rig , affectionately known in the gaming world as the “ Predator ”. Why? Because 1) It has some of the most impressive specs...

Did you know that it is estimated that every 14 days, a language disappears? I didn’t know this. It is unfortunate and sad to hear a language, something that is so important to a culture, can disappear so quickly. And when a language disappears, it can take with it centuries of history. Today, UNESCO...

In advance of CES 2012, HP announced their very first 27-inch All-in-One PC and a new desktop gaming PC earlier this week. Wow. Ok, so where to begin on the new HP Omni 27 ? HP really packed a lot into this All-in-One PC! The HP Omni 27 has an edge-to-edge glass 27-inch-diagonal HD screen that can be...

In part 2 of our interviews from Decibel, we spoke with Windows DJ Dave Pezzner about working on a PC.  Here’s what he had to say: Remember, be sure to follow me on Twitter @winashbrown for the latest news and updates about Windows and music.

Normally when I review a laptop, I spend most of my time on performance and design – how it looks, how it feels to hold and type on, how it performs under various workloads.  Today’s post on the MSI GX640 gaming laptop is a bit different, because I wanted to focus on MSI’s implementation of Windows...

A few weeks ago I picked up an Epson Artisan 725 printer to try out at home. I didn’t have a printer (old printer had died a while ago) and I recently wanted to start printing my own photos for family instead of paying to have them printed someplace. I also wanted to start scanning some old photos I...

Celebrity skateboarder, entrepreneur and all around nice guy Rob Dyrdek will be at the Microsoft Store in Scottsdale , Arizona this Thursday from 5pm-6pm local time. You’ll be given the chance to get your photo taken with Dyrdek , have him sign an item and then be eligible to lots of cool stuff. I spent...

“They have been training their whole lives to save the world,” said Jane McGonigal, world-renowned game designer and author, in reference to the students who participated in the Microsoft Imagine Cup. For one member of the winning Software Design team, his solution not only stands to change the world...

I recently got in a shipment of HP Pavilion dm4’s , the same machine that is part of today’s offer that Ashley just told you about . The dm4 is a capable machine, and given that it starts at little over $700 it’s very friendly on the bank account, too. The model the Microsoft Store...

Microsoft Hardware is launching a new digital art project today called The Art of Touch . The campaign is inspired by Microsoft’s Touch Mouse family of mice. And it’s pretty cool. By visiting the website, people can sign-in to create a piece of digital art on a canvas with a series...

Last week our colleagues in the UK launched The Collection , a hand-picked group of best-in-class Windows 7 PCs. The Collection is a way for customers in the UK to find the perfect PC, regardless of what they love to do or how much they’re looking to spend. There’s a great online tool to help you choose...

Tonight at CES 2011 we announced the new Touch Mouse from Microsoft Hardware. This new mouse adds multitouch gestures to Windows 7 on top of the normal “point and click” experience.   The Touch Mouse is the result of the Mouse 2.0 project that was done by Microsoft Research. You can read about the...

Today at CTIA Wireless 2010 , T-Mobile is announcing they will begin selling the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook with T-Mobile webConnect, powered by Windows 7 and built-in mobile broadband for T-Mobile’s 3G network. The Mini 10 is a 10” netbook that comes with Windows 7 Starter, an Intel Atom N450 processor...

Giving is always better than receiving, and today I’m happy to announce the extension of our student discount on Windows 7 Professional to 11 additional countries – Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, New Zealand and Taiwan (see availability dates and links to...

T he following blog post is from Janelle Manuel who is a member of the Windows UCrew. As a member of the UCrew, she spreads awareness about Windows products at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is a Film & Digital Media major who will graduate this May. Originally from Dallas, Texas her love...

Jordan Brand will be celebrating its 25th year anniversary at this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend . During this celebration, one way that Jordan Brand would like to engage with consumers is through rich experiences enabled by new and emergent technology. The Jordan Brand has partnered with Microsoft and...

About two weeks ago I got a present – a pre-release unit of the Samsung X430. This carbon-look fiber clad PC is a Microsoft Store exclusive – it’s only sold in our new “brick-and-mortar” stores and at the Microsoft Store Online. First, its impossible to miss the...

After seeing Brad Brooks’ demo of Play To in Windows 7 a couple weeks ago at the New York City Windows 7 Launch Party, I decided immediately that I must use Play To in my home. I went out a picked up a Linksys DMP100 Wireless-N Music Extender by Cisco. This device is on the market today with firmware...

Microsoft Hardware announced earlier today the new Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 . Last week, I met with the awesome folks from Microsoft Hardware and they handed me a Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 to use here in my office. Several of my latest blog posts (including this one) were written using the Comfort...

When a new version of Windows is released, people either upgrade their existing PC or purchase a new PC with the latest version of Windows already pre-installed. For the people who want to upgrade their existing PC, they are often faced with the question of whether their PC can run the new Windows version...