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The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way to leverage services within the Windows Azure Platform from an iPhone or iPad.  In this video, Vittorio Bertocci—Principal Program Manager at Microsoft—explains how to use the latest release to leverage the Access Control…

So, you’re a Mac owner and you’ve been eyeing up those sweet new Windows Phone 7 handsets, right? But you’re thinking, “How could I possibly sync my music, photos, videos and podcasts from iTunes and iPhoto to the handset from my Mac?”.The answer comes in the form of the all-new Windows Phone 7…

The new Microsoft KIN phones, the tween-oriented social devices that include automatic cloud backup, don’t just work with Windows PCs – they work with Mac too. Along with the launch of the new Facebook and Twitter-connected phones, a company called mark/space was tasked with creating compatible Mac…

Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit recently announced a new special for students with Mac computers looking to purchase a copy of Microsoft Office software. As of now, U.S. college and graduate students can save more than 70% off the retail price for the Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition. This more…

Despite what the Mac commercials would have you believe, the latest Mac operating system is actually less secure than either Vista or Windows 7. That’s not me saying this, mind you, it’s noted security expert, Charlie Miller. According to a recent ComputerWorld article, Miller is quoted as saying…

With all the buzz surrounding the dueling advertising campaigns between Macs & Microsoft it was clearly time to address the issue. And since the CoffeeHouse is talking about it... Office: The Movie What Apple can learn from Microsoft War on the Ipod! Mac fights back General Mills…

Noah Edelstein stopped by and gave us a first look at the Mac client for Live Mesh, so now if you've got some electro-diversity in your home ecosphere, you can drag & drop, share & push all your files to your other machines just like the I'm a PC folks. If you're already a Live Mesh user,…

Windows Live Mesh, the new S+S (software plus services) platform for data synchronization has received a lot of attention this month. First, it opened up its private beta to all of the U.S. (and others who were willing to edit their regional settings), next they released their mobile version,…

In celebration of Steve Job's announcement of MacBook Air...Microsoft just released Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 yesterday.  We're spreading the MAC love.  The Home and Student Edition includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage 2008. Open XML file compatibility allows Macs and…

IdentityMine is a great design agency on MSFT interactive technologies.  Not only did they create the popular Blendables UI controls, they created and delivered the Silverlight training to prepare several other agencies for the Phizzpop design challenge.You can imagine my consternation…