Microsoft introduces new games system Kinect
Microsoft is taking aim at the Wii. The company unveiled Kinect, its new motion-controlled gaming system for the Xbox 360, at the E3 Video Game Conference in Los Angeles. Kinect makes the player the controller, allowing a person to play games without a handheld remote or even without pressing a button. CNET’s Dan Ackerman explains [...]
Halo: Reach Beta Code now available
Microsoft and Bungie threw the doors wide open to the multiplayer beta version of Halo: Reach on Monday, letting in anyone who owns a copy of last year’s Xbox 360 game Halo 3: ODST. Wired.com played the beta this weekend, getting an early glimpse at what will surely be one of the year’s [...]
Microsoft aborts Courier tablet prototype
Microsoft has abandoned its free push into the tablet market with a product which, on paper at least, looked better than the Ipad.
“At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, and incubated. It’s in Microsoft’s DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to foster productivity [...]
Bungie signs 10-year publishing deal with Activision
Activision has reached a 10-year deal with Bungie to serve as the exclusive publisher for the Halo studio’s next project.
In an announcement made by the duo Thursday, Activision will have exclusive rights to publish and distribute Bungie titles based on a new video game property.
The exclusive partnership will see Activision publish a new intellectual property [...]
Microsoft released a few more details about Gears of War 3
Epic Games will once again be handling development duties on Gears of War 3, which “plunges players into a harrowing tale of hope, survival and brotherhood” to complete the current story arc for the series. The last human city has been destroyed and the last remaining survivors are stranded, leaving Marcus and his comrades in [...]
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, .Net 4 launched today
After what think is an amazing engineering effort, Microsoft is ready to release Visual Studio 2010 with the .NET Framework version 4. The guiding principle behind Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is pretty straightforward: We wanted to simplify the entire development cycle, while at the same time making it easier for developers to [...]
Who will win the war that has been waged against the Google?
The big question in China isn’t why Google is leaving but who will take its market share. Microsoft wants it, Baidu’s a favorite, but local powers like Sohu and Tencent are more likely to be the big winners.
The days are winding down for some of the best and brightest who went to work for Google [...]
Microsoft got patent deal paid by Amazon for Linux
Amazon.com has joined a host of other companies using Linux to pay Microsoft as part of a patent cross-licensing arrangement.
What was Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, thinking? Amazon just signed a patent cross-licensing deal that pays Microsoft intellectual property fees for, among other things, patents that cover Amazon’s Linux-based Kindle e-reader and its Linux servers. [...]
Microsoft Windows 7 Review
Almost three years have passed since the arrival of Microsoft Windows Vista, and it’s fair to say the sixth version of the Windows operating system wasn’t popular with every PC user. After problems with hardware that didn’t work and complaints about the User Account Control security tool (more on that later), many home computer users [...]
