Summer usually is the time for vacations which means people are taking a lot of photos with their families on their travels and adventures. Windows Live Photo Gallery is perfect for organizing all of your summer photos – helping you to find, touch-up and share all of your favorite pictures. You can download...

I think I have a fairly normal, modern life. I don’t have a landline telephone or a 9-to-5 schedule. I do have two mobile phones and a 100-minute-a-day commute. At work I have TweetDeck permanently open on one of my three work monitors (Outlook and Internet Explorer 8 are open on the other two...

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...

Back in September, Nick blogged about two new LifeCams from Microsoft Hardware: the VX-7000 and NX-3000. Recently, I've been looking for a new webcam. I already owned the VX-3000 - but I wanted something a little more powerful and higher quality. And the VX-7000 is just that! I went ahead and picked...

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...

UPDATE: You can download the final released version of the Outlook Connector here or through Windows Live Essentials at download.live.com . The Windows Live Calendar Team has announced the availability of the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta - which allows you to sync your calendars on...

* No purchase necessary. Open only to legal residents of the 50 US and DC 18+. See Official Rules for details below. MICROSOFT WINDOWS LIVE HOLIDAY SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES: These are the official rules that govern how the Microsoft Windows Live Holiday Sweepstakes...

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...

Right now as I write this everyone should be enjoying the shiny new Windows Live Betas - available for download at download.live.com . I'd like to take a moment to highlight several blog posts from the Windows Live Product Teams I think folks will be interested in reading. Tanja, Program Manager for...

Talking with other moms over the weekend at CES there was one thing clear: moms generally love Windows because of the connected experience it provides across the PC, phone and cloud, which provides access to all your stuff (photos, music, files) from anywhere. This week, mom blogger Rebecca Levey ( beccarama...

Today the DMX Team is announcing a beta refresh for Windows Live Photo Gallery that includes the ability to publish your photos directly to Flickr. Based from direct customer feedback, the DMX Team worked with Flickr in enabling support to upload photos to your Flickr account in Windows Live Photo Gallery...

I want to take a moment and let folks know about the Windows Experience Pack we are making available starting today for people with PCs running Windows 7 and/or Windows Live Essentials. While we can’t send all of you on vacation, we can give you something special to help you daydream and customize your...

During planning for Windows 7, we kick started a conversation with more than a billion Windows users. Our goal was to encourage them to reimagine the value of Windows in their lives and have some fun along the way. The result is amazing, but we know that many people are still curious (and sometimes unsure...

Today you might take notice to a few cool changes in Windows Live SkyDrive. The Windows Live SkyDrive Team has released an update bringing the following new features for our enjoyment: Users can now leave comments on files. New Recent Comments page for comments left recently on files shared...

UPDATE 10/4/10, 11:15am PT - Clarified Signature Upgrade requirements. Sorry for the confusion! Last week I had the opportunity to talk with Ken Fowles, the company’s “Signature Samurai” and the man responsible for running the Microsoft Signature lab. We had a chance to talk about...

I use about 2-3 different PCs throughout the week for work - including my laptop when I travel away from the office. In doing this - I have files scattered on multiple PCs. I'll go to one PC and find I need a file from another PC. So to make sure all my PCs are in-sync with all the important files I...

Windows Live OneCare 2.5 is now available and I've got some information for both new and existing Windows Live OneCare subscribers regarding the Windows Live OneCare 2.5 release I'd like to share. Beginning last week (July 1st to be exact) - existing Windows Live OneCare users (paid subscribers) began...

Congratulations to Teresa Stump for winning the Hotmail Sweep Photo Contest! Teresa’s photo of her desk comes with a rather sad story. As a 10 year chronic pain sufferer, she is hindered in her ability to do many of the things she loves (like clean!). I am an over 10 year chronic pain sufferer. I had...

It’s the holidays, everyone is busy shopping, and TV commercials and ads are a seemingly endless parade of cheery faces and Holiday wishes. But have you ever stopped to think – when are all of those pictures (or TV ads) actually created? The answer is, almost certainly, in the dog days of summer, and...

I’m sitting here in on my in-laws’ deck overlooking beautiful Lake Chelan . Evan sleeping by my side, Audrey is down for a nap and the house is otherwise empty, so I thought I’d take my mother-in-law’s HP G62 out for a test drive. Yes, this is the same one I was conscripted to configure just a few weeks...

Mother's Day is fast approaching and what better way to show your Mom you care than to enter her in a photo contest! While I'm still working to get my Mom to join the online community, we have a fun way you all can recognize your own Mom and help her learn how to share all those family photos on her...

Everyone wants to spend the holidays with people they love, but sometimes that just isn’t possible. But when you just can’t be there, an high-definition (HD) image is worth a million words. Starting today and going until Dec. 25, get a $99 Microsoft LifeCam Studio webcam for free when you buy a Samsung...

Last week I got my hands on a brand new ASUS VX7 Lamborghini gaming laptop.  It’s a beautiful PC, as I noted in my unboxing photo gallery blog , so I wanted to devote this piece to the PC’s performance, which looks to be seriously impressive.  What’s inside My VX7 is loaded with a second-generation...

Are you using your blog to talk about using Windows and Windows Live? Do you want to get your post showcased on Microsoft websites? You should join The Clubhouse . The Clubhouse is a place that brings together people using their blogs to help others how to use the best parts of Windows and Windows Live...

In November 2012 we announced the date of the retirement of Messenger integration in Video Kinect. On March 11th, 2013 Video Kinect received a title update that removed Messenger integration from this title. This is a part of the larger overall Messenger plan announced last fall. Video Kinect will still...