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Category Archives: Microsoft
Awesome: Fez is Now Out on Xbox LIVE Arcade [Launch Trailer]
For those of you who own an Xbox 360, you guys will definitely want to check out Fez, which is now available on Microsoft’s gaming network for 800 points (about $10.) [FEZ | Xbox 360 LIVE 1600 Points - $19.99 $17.48]
Kinect Support Coming to Skyrim [Video]
We’re pleased to announce that Kinect for Xbox 360 support is coming to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Available for free as a title update slated for release this month, Skyrim Kinect for Xbox 360 Support will feature more than 200 Voice Commands… including the game’s dragon shouts. [Via]
Jim Henson’s Original Sales Pitch for The Muppet Show
Back in the day, Jim Henson was already a household name with Sesame Street, but he wanted to break the Muppets out of children’s programming. He felt that all ages could enjoy the Muppets and made the effort to pitch an idea for a variety show with celebrity guests that we would come to know [...]
The Browser You STILL Love to Hate [Video]
Hey, that’s actually a great ad. I have to admit that Microsoft’s browser is WAY better and secure than it used to be, but no one is taking my Chrome away from me. Nobody. Oh and also, this short bit right below the video on Youtube made me LOL: Adding comments has been disabled for [...]
Court Orders Refund for “Windows Tax”
A French man has become at least the fourth person to gain a refund for a copy of Windows that came pre-installed on a new computer. This looks to be the first case, though, where a court has ordered the refund. Microsoft’s general policy is that it sells Windows to the retailer and the retailer [...]
PC retail chain accused of mass Windows piracy
Microsoft has launched legal action against a major electrical retailer after accusing it of large-scale piracy. It claims the Comet Group PLC unlawfully copied and produced more than 94,000 sets of recovery disks for Windows XP and Vista, selling them to customers who purchased Windows-loaded PCs and laptops. Comet is owned by a French parent [...]
Xbox Menus Get Voice & Motion Control
Microsoft is launching a new Xbox 360 dashboard tomorrow, and if you’ve got Kinect, you’re in for some high-tech gadgetry use. The new-look dashboard, reportedly based on the Metro interface that will feature in Windows 8, is designed to extend use of the motion control device beyond simply playing games. Kinect owners will now be [...]
A Geek Girl’s Guide to Holiday Shopping
by Meredith Placko While millions of Americans fought tooth, nail, and pepper spray to get their hands on some mighty deals, this geek girl somehow managed to avoid the annual contact sport known as Black Friday. While sitting in my office, pouring over YouTube videos of people at their very best in Holiday cheer (and [...]
Building Windows 8: Reengineering the Windows Boot Experience [Video]
With continued innovation in the hardware ecosystem, the biggest shift in firmware in 30 years, and software changes leading to boot times of ~7 seconds on machines with solid-state drives (SSDs), we decided it was time to bring the PC boot user experience into the 21st century. In a previous post by Gabe Aul, we [...]
Windows 1.0 vs. Windows 8 [Pic]
Yep, looks about right to me! [Via]
Windows 8 Boots Fast… Really Fast! [Video]
Now here’s the key difference for Windows 8: as in Windows 7, we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it. Compared to a full hibernate, which includes a lot of memory pages in use by apps, session 0 hibernation data is much smaller, which takes substantially less time [...]