Announcing a milestone achievement for Microsoft's cloud file-sharing and storage platform SkyDrive, a recent blog post by group program manager Omar Shahine has revealed that service now plays host to over 1 billion documents.

Going by the evident indications from a new job posting listed by Microsoft, the software giant is apparently working on plans to enable the running of Windows apps, without modification, on Windows Phone and the other way round.

With Microsoft's first full-blown PC - the much-anticipated Surface Pro tablet - set to hit the markets, the company is on the verge of bringing forth its radical new device which underscores its biggest effort in the PC arena.

Software giant Microsoft has recently announced the availability of an update - designated as 14.3 - to its Office for Mac 2011 product; thereby patching some issues and bringing on activation support to facilitate the installation of the updated Office for Mac version as part of the company's latest Office 365 subscription offerings.

In slightly over two months of the October 26 launch of Microsoft’s latest flagship OS Windows 8, statistics from Web analytics firm Net Applications have revealed that the adoption rate of Windows 8 is currently lower than that of Microsoft’s much-maligned Windows Vista version, which has been the company’s slowest software rollout in the last few years.

According to a Saturday report by Web measurement firm Net Applications, the usage uptake of Microsoft's latest Windows 8 operating system - which was officially launched on October 26 - till now resembles the usage uptake of the problems-plagued Windows Vista version than the ultimately more successful Windows 7 version.

With Microsoft having already announced its decision to pull the plug on its Windows XP operating system, Microsoft and third-party countdown clocks recently showed that the XP has less than 500 days of life left.

Microsoft's first tablet, Surface, has made it into the list of her favorite things by Oprah Winfrey. The talk show queen endorsed the tablet on her website.