Rare Look Inside Microsoft’s Redmond Office

You’ve seen what the offices of Blizzard and Google look like, now here’s a sneak peak at some parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus. The “grounds comprise over 300 acres, with about 40 buildings housing nearly 14,000 offices.” Videos after the break.

Microsoft privately testing a ‘Twitter for business’ service

Microsoft is continuing to look into ways to make social computing services part of business users’ lives with a new pilot program for something called "OfficeTalk." Microsoft mentioned OfficeTalk in a March 19 posting on the Office Labs blog, calling it a vehicle that “applies the base capabilities of microblogging to a business environment."

Microsoft set to launch beta of Silverlight for Symbian

In March 2008, Microsoft and Nokia announced their commitment to make Silverlight available for certain Nokia phones running the Symbian operating system. Microsoft is finally ready to make a beta of that code available.

Microsoft IntelliPoint / IntelliType 7.10

With IntelliType Pro keyboard software, you can customize the unique features of your Microsoft keyboard to fit your needs. Many keys can be reassigned to open a program, file or Web page, or to perform commands such as Find, Show Desktop, or other application-specific functions. You can also disable keys you sometimes press accidentally, such [...]

Microsoft actively urges IE 6 users to upgrade

A shopping video and eBay promotion are part of Microsoft’s effort to give IE 6 users a reason to upgrade. The company also is trying to move corporate customers away.
via Deep Tech

Microsoft brings Silverlight video to the iPhone, without a plugin

The ongoing on saga of Flash on the iPhone (or, more to the point, the lack thereof) has been frustrating to users and developers alike. Adobe’s even gone as far as creating Flash-to-iPhone app technology to bridge the gap. Meanwhile, Microsoft just scored a big coup by announcing that Silverlight video will work on the [...]