Microsoft’s retail and online stores will be selling a line of signature PCs. When you usually buy a PC, you have to spend time removing all of the pre-installed applications on the computer. These can include 30 day music trials, limited anti-virus protection software and photo editing tools you probably will never use. On these more »

Everybody else is doing it. Microsoft is going to give a shot at it too.

In an effort to keep programmers loyal and customers happy, Microsoft has recognized the need to match their competitors’ moves toward cloud computing with Azure. Gadgetell has a more in depth look on cloud computing here. Making operating systems and programs remotely accessible means real changes for us.

Keep reading to see what some of them are.

RIM has recently announced some upcoming new apps that will soon be available for the BlackBerry lineup. Personally some of this new support it not really all that exciting, but everyone has their personal taste and I am sure others will be a little happier than myself.

First up, I will lead off with the one I am most excited by, well at least if I were a regular BlackBerry user anyway, of course this could possible entice me to pick up a BlackBerry Curve of Bold as a secondary device. Anyway the app is for Slacker Radio and the nice part with this service, is that unlike some other streaming radio services this content will be cached on your device meaning you will not need 3G to get a good listening experience, of course an external storage card will most likely come in handy. As we told you about in our recent Slacker Radio review you can opt for the free service or the premium service which will set you back $7.50 a month. This should prove to be very nice for those lucky enough to have an aux-in jack on their car stereo.

Microsoft is still trying it’s hardest to compete with Google and Yahoo! for your internet searching. It’s still trying to buy companies to do so, though it succeeded in the acquisition this time. To help with search results, Microsoft has bought Greenfield Online, the company responsible for ciao.com. Ciao.com is a European price comparison search more »

Today, Microsoft announced their new traffic system. Yawn right? Well, maybe not. Seems their new system has a trick up its sleeve that other traffic systems, cams or other don’t. While driving into work, an MS guy thought he’d beat the freeway traffic and hit the city surface streets. The result? Predictably, they were worse. more »