The Dell XPS 13 is a sleek and slim ultrathin laptop powered by Windows 7 which is designed to keep you entertained where ever you go.

Windows Phone 8 will be based on the same kernel as Windows 8, and will support multicore processors, NFC, and full device encryption according to a leaked video seen by PocketNow . This in turn inspired Paul Thurrott to reveal a little more about the software too.

Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer has barred browser plugins in the Metro environment.

The Kinect for Windows and Kinect SDK have launched officially. The hardware costs $249, and the development license includes commercial usage. Read More: Kinect SDK , Previous coverage Read the comments on this post

A botnet capable of delivering almost four billion spam messages per day has been confirmed resurrected—more than four months after Microsoft celebrated its untimely demise.

Microsoft may have scored an early victory in its legal tussle with Barnes & Noble. The two companies are engaged in parallel battles, one via the Department of Justice, another via United States International Trade Commission. In March 2011, Microsoft accused Barnes & Noble of patent infringement with its NOOK and NOOK Color products; in retaliation, Barnes & Noble made a broad complaint claiming that Microsoft is being an abusive monopoly and that the patents are in any case irrelevant

Major e-mail providers, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! are teaming up with PayPal, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more, to implement a new system for authenticating e-mail senders to try to prevent the sending of fradulent spam and phishing messages. The protocol that powers e-mail, SMTP, dates back to a more trusting era; a time when the only people who sent you e-mails were people you wanted to send you e-mails. SMTP servers are willing to accept pretty much any e-mail destined for a mailbox they know about (which is, admittedly, an improvement on how things used to be, when they’d accept e-mails even for mailboxes they didn’t know about ), a fact which spammers and phishers exploit daily.

Microsoft has announced that the Technical Preview Program for the software suite codenamed “Office 15″ has started.

Kinect’s vision and depth perception technology could soon be integrated into laptops. The Daily has seen two prototypes, believed to be from Asus, that incorporate an array of sensors above the top of the screen, replacing the traditional webcam. Below the display are a set of LEDs.

Looks like Google is a mood to make a lot of changes in its way of working. It has today announced a major shift in its policy relating to Privacy.