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Microsoft just updated its policy like it was the 1960s, by announcing this morning that gamers are now permitted to share their sexual orientation on their Xbox profiles. That’s awfully good of them! Previously, revealing which gender you were attracted to could have earned you a ban from Xbox Live, with many genuinely gay gamers cut off from the service for using the word “gay” in their Xbox Gamertags.

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Microsoft allows gamers to reveal sexuality on Xbox Live

While many companies are pushing for free internet for everyone, a top Microsoft executive this week went in the other direction, suggesting that an internet usage tax should be charged in order to help fight cyber crime. According to HuffPost : Speaking at a security conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney pitched the Web usage fee as one way to subsidize efforts to combat emerging cyber threats — a costly venture, he said, but one that had vast community benefits.

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Top Microsoft Exec Suggests Internet Usage Tax, Money Would Fight Cyber Crime

If you’re using Windows XP you might want to avoid the F1 key when navigating the web with Internet Explorer, at least that’s the newest announcement by Microsoft. The story goes as such; users browse the web in a carefree fit of joy when all of a sudden they hit the F1 key to access a Microsoft help file.

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Microsoft Tells Windows XP Customers To Avoid F1 Key, Sort Of

We’re very cautious about this one, but a noncommittal statement has come out of Redmond this week which says Windows Mobile 6.5 devices may be able to transition to the far much cooler Windows Phone 7 Series. Alex Reeve of Microsoft released this vague statement: It’s early days yet, and that’s really for our hardware partners to think about

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Windows Phone 7 Phone Upgrades May Be Possible [Rumor]

He’s already predicted that the Xbox 360’s motion-sensing ‘Natal’ controller will outsell the PlayStation 3 equivalent, the ‘Arc’ . Now, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has produced numbers – and his vision of the future will not please Sony.

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Analyst: Microsoft’s Natal to outsell Sony’s Arc 5 to 1

The search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo was finalized today after federal regulators from the U.S and European Union gave the companies a green light. The move, a strategic partnership will help both companies cut costs, while fighting against Google who controls 70% of the search market

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Yahoo And Microsoft Finalize Search Partnership

Upgrading your console’s hard drive? Not cheap! So here’s one possible solution: the Datel Space Dock.

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Upgrade your Xbox 360 or PS3 hard drive to 1TB

Yesterday I wrote here that Microsoft wasn’t a company to count down and out of the mobile game and today I bring you a couple of in-depth videos on Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 Series courtesy of Channel 9. thanks to Steve Clayton

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Some in-depth Windows Phone 7 Series info [Video]

Microsoft’s XBox Live servers have suffered a major outage today, cutting off gamers world wide for at least several hours. XBox Live went down at approximately 2pm US PST, and as of 3:30pm PST are still experiencing difficulties. Reports suggest that while users can connect to the service, games will not play, including the popular Modern Warfare 2 servers

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XBox Live Servers Down