Microsoft has already officially confirmed the event on September 30 to show off an enterprise technology preview of its next version of Windows, codenamed Threshold. We have already seen leaked images and videos of the all new Windows 9 Start Menu, here are two new videos showing the new Notification center and the virtual-desktop functionality.

While everybody is eagerly waiting for official release of Microsoft Windows 9 Technical Preview, a newly leaked video is now gaining views as it demonstrates the "all-new" marriage between "Start Button" and "Metro UI". This seems a perfect solution for users who hated the extreme move by Microsoft to prioritize Metro UI over Start Button but at the same time keep the Metro UI alive and useful. The video gives Windows’ users a first look at the new Start menu in action, it clearly shows three brand new features in Windows 9 - the notification center, Windowed Metro apps and Virtual desktops.

After some convincing internal builds leaks of Windows 9, we are now hearing rumors that Microsoft is working feverishly towards a release of "Windows Threshold Technical Preview" next month following the earlier announced rapid-release cycle schedule for Windows OS. The newest feature to make it's way into current builds of "Windows 9" would be the ability to upgrade "Windows builds" with a single-click without requiring a complete re-installation of the OS as needed with older Windows OS's.

One of the most successful operating-system of all times - Microsoft Windows XP went "End-Of-Life" on April, 8th, 2014 leaving users with vulnerable systems as no updates including critical security-patches will get issued by Microsoft in future to "general" users. However, the company will be providing security patches to users enrolled under their "Windows Embedded POSReady 2009" program and below shared registry hack will let any "Windows XP" user receive the same patches for free till April 9, 2019.

Sysinternals Process Explorer has been one of the most indispensable utility for diagnosing misbehaving applications and fixing malware's. Process Explorer shows you all the information about any application running on windows including which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded, network, security, performance and a lot more. The utility has now get integration for another indispensable tool for researching malware's, the multi-engine anti-virus scanning utility VirusTotal. The integration also shows a rare sight of co-operation between two rivals Microsoft (Process Explorer) and Google (VirusTotal).

While there are both lovers and haters to Metro UI (now called Modern UI), Microsoft is going for a complete brand redesign around the tile interface. Imagine what if most famous brands have their logos redesigned with this new "boxy" concept, here is an interesting take by an designer (more after the jump, do notice Google and twitter makeovers).

After almost 25 years the world's largest software maker by revenues and one of the world's most valuable companies, Microsoft now has a new logo. Based on the new Metro UI (or now Modern UI) design philosophy which Microsoft is using all across its product branding the new logo looks refreshing and modern.

History of Microsoft logos after the jump.

Microsoft is betting high on cloud computing and it's recent release of Office 365 certifies this, Microsoft has now opened it's gates for free account registrations at outlook.com - so hurry-up and go grab yourname@outlook.com before anyone else does.

Based on now Microsoft universal Metro UI interface the free web-mail service looks snappy and elegant.

Microsoft started poking Google almost a year ago promoting their Office 365 offering, the company has now revealed the brand new Office 2013 for Home, small businesses and enterprise users.

The new release focuses mainly on the cloud features and integration with newer Windows 8 metro UI, the user-interface is designed to work optimally with touch, stylus and mouse/keyboard across new Windows devices. The new Office is also tightly integrated with social features catering to new scenarios in reading, note-taking, meetings and communications.

High-resolution images, features, videos and download links after the jump.

The latest download for Windows 8 Release Preview features hundreds of visible and tens of thousands of under-the-hood changes from it's previous public release.