The photo below is a central part of Microsoft's corporate history. Taken in 1978, it's a portrait of eleven of Microsoft's original twelve staff. Front row (left to right): Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, and Paul Allen. Middle row: Bob O'Rear...

Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. Nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version were distributed ahead of the launch...

Bill Gates will move from his day-to-day role at Microsoft on June 27th 2008 to focus on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (He'll remain as Microsoft’s chairman).   Here's a video that charts Bill's journey from the early 70s to today.

If you're using Twitter , then you may have got bored reading the web page updates and downloaded a little desktop application or applet for keeping in touch. (I have). One problem is that it's yet another application. So here's an alternative for anyone...

Fantastic news, a second Irish team have qualified for the global finals of the 2008 Imagine Cup finals in Paris next month. The team, which is called AcidRain, hail from NUI Maynooth and they have qualified with a project which enables diesel engined...

Microsoft and Zignals a new Irish start-up company today announced the launch of a beta online service set to transform investing for the active trader. Zignals will provide retail investors with state-of-the-art decision-support tools and access to a...

The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), an open source initiative that helps companies develop and deploy podcasting solutions on Microsoft Sharepoint was announced today at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. According to an April 2008 Forrester Research...

There’s a new technical preview of Windows Live Writer available . There’s some new image and video publishing additions, some changes to the user interface and some improvements to teh editor. You can download it here .