Last Friday, Xbox Live subscribers lost the Cloud Saved Games feature

Unified Communications Strategies takes a look at Microsofts Windows adoption strategy and what it could mean going forward.

"Microsoft is putting all of its eggs in one basket with Windows 8; its success or failure could determine their fate. This is the view given by Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer, at least. According to him, “our hardware partners are all in, companies like Verizon and AT&T are all in, there are hundreds of operators and retailers around the world who are all in, developers are all in, and if anyone wasn't convinced yet Microsoft is all in. He spoke these words at October's Windows 8 launch event in San Francisco."

Windows Store has crossed 35,000 apps worldwide

MakeUseOf takes a look at the differences between Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8

Microsoft published a guide about creating a portable Windows 8 environment with Windows To Go

Beloved icon of Windows history appears to be in the rear view for good

Windows 8's usage uptake has slipped behind Vista's at the same point in its release, according to data from Net Applications.

Microsoft is opening more retail locations in 2013

Microsoft recently published the findings of a research project that aims to improve the energy efficiency of GPS by offloading work to the cloud.

Microsoft has released a new benchmark to demonstrate the power of Internet Explorer 10

Microsoft's free previews of Windows 8 will expire in January, giving users about three weeks to upgrade to a paid copy or face hourly restarts.

A quick look at our newest computer Ratings tells an interesting story: Despite the release of the new Windows 8 OS, many Windows 7 computers are still available from a variety of retailers, and several top our Ratings. If you're shopping for a new computer right now, there are some good reasons to opt for Windows 7.

Here's a look at the pros and cons of the new operating system, and some reasons why you might want to go old school.

"As much as we love adding new features to Outlook, for the maintainability of our product we sometimes need to remove those that are out of date and aren't utilized by a large number of users. This allows us to focus on improving the Outlook features that most of you, our customers, rely on.

The following are some features that we've removed from Outlook 2013, and we want to make sure you are aware so there aren't any surprises when you go to use or deploy the new version. "

Microsoft announced that the Expression suite will be phased out

Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Re-Releases for December 20, 2012

Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky has reported that he will began teaching at Harvard this spring

The European Commission investigates Microsoft's recent policy changes and how they may affect the privacy of its users

Microsoft has submitted a patch to the WebKit project to extend the open source rendering engine with a prototype implementation of the Pointer Events specification

The Outlook blog has a list of deprecated features and components in Outlook 2013

Techradar posted a story that the Windows RT branding will be too confusing according to a Dell exec