Microsoft has revealed their first competitor to Apple’s touch-sensitive mouse, called the Microsoft Touch Mouse. The mouse, which can be pre-ordered now but has yet to receive a shipping date for Australia (Microsoft says it will be available here before the end of the financial year), was revealed shortly after the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer completed this years opening keynote at the world’s biggest consumer electronics show, CES. Just like Apple’s touch-sensitive Magic Mouse — which was [...]

Join us as we live blog the CES 2011 opening keynote with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer live from Las Vegas from 1.15pm AEDT tomorrow, Thursday the 6th of January. CES 2011

If you’re an Aussie developer looking for something to do over the Christmas break, pay attention. The local branch of software giant Microsoft have debuted a new competition to encourage more developers towards their new Windows Phone 7 platform. With the grand prize a trip to MIX11 in Las Vegas next year, Microsoft Australia is promoting the competition as being “Developer verse Developer” and say they are looking to find out what’s required to make the ultimate [...]

Reports today suggest Telstra is looking into moving many of its customers onto Microsoft’s Windows Live service as part of a proposal for the future. As part of its plan to “evolve” the company’s offering to customers in the future, Telstra is understood to be considering moving customers onto a cloud-based offering such as Microsoft’s Hotmail, which would see customers able to use their BigPond accounts for most Windows Live services including SkyDrive for files, [...]

NPD sales and percentages of Year over Year sales for 2010 are revealed for the Xbox 360.

Microsoft has this morning announced Tracey Fellows, currently the Managing Director of Microsoft Australia, will replace Emilio Umeoka as the new Area Vice President for the Asia-Pacific region when he departs later this month. Fellows, responsible for “stellar” results in Microsoft’s Australian division since she was promoted from Marketing Director to Managing Director in 2007, will move to Singapore and take over from Umeoka — who is moving back to the US to be closer to [...]

Microsoft has confirmed the Windows 7 Family Pack will be available in Australia once more following “hugely popular” demand. To be honest, I’m not sure why they don’t just make the Family Pack — which allows once copy of Windows to be installed on three computers — a permanent fixture in the Windows lineup, but if you’re looking for a cheaper way to upgrade your home computer to Windows 7 then grab the family pack [...]

USA Today held an interview with Mark Lamia (Treyarch studio head) he had this to say about the games time period and setting: “The team is really excited about creating a game in this period. We really felt like it was fertile ground for us and we could provide something fresh for gamers.” “This setting, this period, was perfect for us because it allowed us this creativity. This period hasn’t really been done in games [...]

A report from an internet security company yesterday suggests that Ninemsn Australia’s ‘advertising engine’ was compromised and injected with malicious code hidden inside code calling an advert in the companies help and support section. Websense, a prominent web security threat analysis company, detected the issue yesterday and deemed it to be at the time not an extreme threat  - although if the malicious code had been reached or activated it would have become much more dangerous. [...]

Microsoft today launched it’s latest and long-hoped for mobile operating system, taking a radical new approach bringing users in an almost Zune-like experience X-box live support and real-time updates on your contacts. With the announcement of the Windows Phone 7 Series (formerly known as the Windows Mobile OS), Microsoft is taking a more stricter and streamlined approach to working with it’s partners. For example, every phone built for the OS must have a dedicated button [...]