Xbox: revealing
7 hours ago | Add comment
Today is the big day for Xbox news, as Microsoft has gathered members of the press and others together on the Microsoft campus, all under a big ass tent (it’s been raining all night… Read more
New Xbox Revealed as Xbox One
4 hours ago by Chris Poirier | 1 comment
After months of speculation, Microsoft has now officially announced the new Xbox. Following a brief introductory video, Don Mattrick, President of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft took the stage to discuss the history of Xbox as a brand, as well as to reveal the new Xbox.
Billed as the ultimate, all in one, home entertainment system, and formerly known as Durango, the new Xbox is now officially known as Xbox One. The Xbox One was designed with three main principles – that is, to be, simple, instant, and complete. As widely anticipated, Xbox One includes Kinect functionality built into the unit.
Following the system reveal, Yusuf Mehdi took the stage to demo some of the new UI features –… read more
Live Chat coming to Bing?
May 17, 2013 | 4 comments
Chat has been a hot topic this week, what with the addition of Google contacts into Outlook.com and the backlash it caused coming from Google, new abilities to chat from within SkyDrive… Read more
Xbox gets a new official blog: The Wire
May 17, 2013 | Add comment
Just in time for next week’s Xbox Reveal event, where Microsoft will for the first time unveil its next generation Xbox (Xboxes?), a new blog, Xbox Wire, debuted today:
Xbox’s… Read more
Microsoft and Google: is this war?
May 15, 2013 | 21 comments
Some shots were fired back and forth today between Microsoft and Google in a series of exchanges both from the stage at Google I/O, and behind the scenes with some well placed leaks… Read more
The next Windows Phone update (GDR2), shipping with the Lumia 925, is coming to more devices this summer
May 14, 2013 | 2 comments
This morning (very early this morning, if you’re on the US west coast!) Nokia officially announced the Lumia 925, a lighter aluminum body version of the Lumia 920 that’s coming… Read more
Chat with your Google friends still “stuck on Gmail” from Outlook.com
May 14, 2013 | 6 comments
In a blog post on the Outlook.com blog today, Microsoft has announced that it’s rolling out Google chat integration, allowing you to chat with your Google friends from Outlook.com. … Read more
Nokia officially announces the Lumia 925
May 14, 2013 | Add comment
At a press event in London today, Nokia’s Jo Harlow showed off the new Nokia 925, a slimmer, aluminum body Lumia device featuring a snap on wireless charging cover, and including… Read more
Windows Essentials 2012 updated
May 13, 2013 | 16 comments
Sometime today Microsoft has updated Windows Essentials 2012, the suite formerly known as Windows Live Essentials, increasing the build number from 16.4.3505.0912 to 16.4.3508.0205. … Read more
SkyDrive improves photos experience, and a better Bing autosuggest
May 13, 2013 | 2 comments
A couple of tweaks to announce for Microsoft products today, for SkyDrive and Bing. First up is news of an improved SkyDrive photos experience, including an “all photos view”,… Read more
