You gotta love job postings. Depending on the description provided, you can often times determine some underlying plans for a company. And the only companies we care about in this regard would be the ones big enough to lend some interesting job postings and descriptions. In this case, WebProNews was tipped off to a posting from Microsoft, and …

Pictured here is Microsoft's great new patent application on a portable touchscreen device's user interface. Look familiar?

Both Microsoft and Google added widgets for translating your web page into another language. The feature was already available at BabelFish, but the site makes a major faux-pas by using flags to represent languages.

Zune 2 and its batch of new features are finally upon us, bringing new players and an entirely new experience. Read on to find out how Microsoft has managed to change a lot on the one hand, and very little on the other—then see how the Zune stacks up against iTunes and iPod.

Gizmodo summarized the first Zune 80 reviews from CNET, Wired, Dean Takahashi, PCWorld and YahooTech. Their verdicts? The cup has not yet been breeched, but Microsoft is making very solid improvements on the brand. And some think it blows away the iPod classic.

We managed to get a full unboxing of the Xbox 360 Arcade before Microsoft has even been able to send out a press release about the thing! $279.99 gets you a hard drive-free console, a 256MB Memory Card, a Wireless controller, an HDMI port minus the cable, and a disc that includes five Xbox LIVE Arcade games.

When Microsoft announced Windows Home Server earlier this year, it was greeted with a mixture of curious disdain and eagerness. Some questioned what the product offered over existing solutions, while others welcomed it with open arms. It's at once hard to explain and easy to understand what Windows Home Server is, but it's worth getting to know…