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About Mike Halsey MVP

Mike Halsey is a Microsoft MVP (Windows Expert) and the author of "Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out" from Microsoft Press, "Office 365 Security Essentials" and several forthcoming books about Windows 8. He is a recognised Windows expert having been awarded a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) certification in 2011. You can follow Mike on Facebook, Twitter or on his own website The Long Climb
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There are times in life when people can’t help but cry out “why has this taken so long?” and today could indeed be considered one of those days as Microsoft, [...]

Last week I wrote about how a leaked Microsoft Windows Phone video, aimed at Nokia and perhaps other partners detailed some of the features we can expect with the next [...]

Some details of thew next big release of Windows Phone, codenamed ‘Apollo’ have emerged today from a video hosted by Windows Phone chief Joe Belfiore for partners including Nokia, and [...]

Microsoft are desperate to squash Windows XP.  The operating system is now more than 10 years old and has been replaced twice!  Yet, despite all of this, and because Vista [...]

Windows XP has long been a thorn in Microsoft’s side.  It’s as comfortable as an old show for many people who skipped over Windows Vista due to its awful reputation [...]

In the run up to Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union Address to the US congress the official White House web site has put a video online where the [...]

Since shortly after Windows Phone first appeared Microsoft have very helpfully been keeping users around the world updated as to the status of update rollouts through their Where’s My update [...]

Metro themed websites are suddenly becoming very popular.  I updated my own website (below) to Metro last month, partly because it’s Microsoft products I write about mostly, but also because [...]

There was a time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser had a healthy 95% of the overall browser market.  This didn’t even mean that their main opposition on the PC had [...]

As the most up and coming Internet and financial super-power in the world, it should hardly come as a surprise that China has become the latest target for cyber-criminals.  In [...]

As the author of “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” I get asked all manner of questions all the time on how to fix or diagnose problem A, B or C.  [...]

I’m not normally interested in reviewing smartphone apps, but the release last week of SkyDrive for Windows Phone is a special case.  SkyDrive is already integrated into the Windows Phone in several ways, [...]