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| New Improved Xbox 360 Controller Revealed |  | For a long time, the battle of videogame consoles was waged with computing power and graphics capabilities in mind, but the fight might just shift to controllers in the near future. The Nintendo Wii has built its success mostly on the innovative control schem ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft, Closer and Closer to the Anti-Apple Panacea |  | Apple had no problems whatsoever in leveraging the weight of its brand in order to kick Windows Vista while the operating system was down. But the time is drawing near when Microsoft will no longer be a silent and passive participant in the Apple monologue marketing show. The Redmond company has been building up its forces, signed an advertising deal with Crispin Porter Bogusky advertising agency, and is getting ready to unleash the anti-A ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2008, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Brings the Political "Game" to Xbox 360 Users |  | Microsoft has partnered with Rock the Vote and embarked on a new initiative designed to "harvest" new registrants for the 2008 election. In this context, the Redmond company announced that it has opened its Xbox LIVE network to Rock the Vote. As a direct consequence, users of Xbox gaming consoles will be able to get involved in presidential polls, have their opinions heard in relation to the two U.S. presidential candidates, and ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2008, 12:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seinfeld Hired to Counter-Attack Apple's 'Get-a-Mac' Ads |  | It looks like Microsoft is dead serious about its counter-offensive towards Apple. The software giant has allegedly hired famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld to be the image of its ad campaign dubbed (hear this) "Windows, Not Walls".
Not that Microsoft's m ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2008, 10:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Photosynth Is Live with 20 GB of Free Storage |  | The technology behind Microsoft Photosynth has evolved past the stage of simple Technology Preview and is now available in its final form. Fathered by Blaise Agüe ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2008, 10:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Download Free UrlScan Filter 3.0 RTW |  | Microsoft has taken UrlScan Filter 3.0 out of Beta development stage and made the tool available for download. The gold code of UrlScan 3.0 that went live on the Microsoft Download Center on August 21 is designed to integrate seamlessly with Internet Information Services 5.1, 6.0 and 7.0 running on top of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows XP. The IIS security tool was made available initially at the end of ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2008, 07:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Unveils New Gaming Peripherals |  | SideWinder X6 Keyboard and the SideWinder X5 Mouse are the new pair of gaming peripherals unveiled by Microsoft at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. According to the Redmond company, both products will hit the market as early as September 2008. The SideWinder X6 Keyboard will come with a price tag of $79.95 while the SideWinder X5 Mouse will be lowered to $59.95. While the SideWinder line of peripherals is not new to Micr ... [read more >>] | | 20 August 2008, 12:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Pours $100 Million into Linux |  | Microsoft announced that it was kicking up a notch its initial investment into Linux dating back to 2006, by pouring no less than $100 million into the open source operating system via Novell. According to the Redmond company, the $100 million will be spent on acquiring support certificates for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The move comes as the two companies have announced the expansion of their interoperability partnership inked b ... [read more >>] | | 20 August 2008, 08:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Is Playing on Both Sides of the American Electoral Front |  | In what is without a doubt a politically correct move from Microsoft, the Redmond giant has announced that it will attempt to marry its technology with politics for the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions in 2008. In the constant race for votes, both Democrats and Republicans have turned to Microsoft for on-location and web-based solutions designed to bring in as many voters as possible. In this context, the s ... [read more >>] | | 20 August 2008, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Core of Windows, Stretched Between Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server |  | Starting with the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Sever 2008 RTM/SP1, Microsoft has virtually joined its Windows client and server operating systems at the hip, and well beyond that in fact. Vista SP1 and the gold version of Windows Server 2008 share the same codebase and in this context also the same core (made up of the kernel plus a set of critical central components sitting directly on top of the code nucleus o ... [read more >>] | | 20 August 2008, 04:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Breaks Limitations for Server Farm Application Virtualization |  | Microsoft is continuing to ensure the evolution of its vision of pervasive and mainstream virtualization, and in this regard, announced new, more relaxed licensing rules for its products. The move is nothing short of an invitation to "Get Virtual Now" from the Redmond company. The fact of the matter is that customers, with the focus on the business environment, will be able to enjoy additional flexibility when it will come down t ... [read more >>] | | 19 August 2008, 10:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Gets Highest Satisfaction Score in the U.S. |  | The American Customer Satisfaction Index study released today by the University of Michigan, in collaboration with consulting company ForeSee Results, shows that U.S. citizens are most content with Google. The satisfaction score in its case reaches 86%, a 10.3% increase as of last year. The category of portals and search engines is dominated by the Mountain View-based giant, while its all-time competitor, Yahoo!, falls on the second place. ... [read more >>] | | 19 August 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Live Mesh Expands to New Territories |  | Since the introduction of Live Mesh in April 2008, Microsoft has been hammering away at the platform, not only catalyzing the evolution of functionality, features and capabilities, but also expanding its reach. Although Live Mesh continues to linger in the Technology Preview stage ... [read more >>] | | 19 August 2008, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| "Ultimate" Support from Microsoft |  | Microsoft Services Premier Support family has grown with the introduction of the new "Ultimate" Support offering. According to the Redmond company, Premier Ultimate is designed to illustrate strong support offered to customers with the end purpose of guaranteeing a healthy IT environment. Microsoft Services Premier Ultimate is available worldwide as of August 18, 2008, for a fixed price, undisclosed by the software giant, as each ... [read more >>] | | 18 August 2008, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Invitation: "Steal" Office Ultimate 2007 |  | Microsoft has transformed Office Ultimate 2007 into the ultimate steal. Come August 20, 2008, students from various markets around the world will be able to take advantage of a massive price discount for the Ultimate SKU of the Office 2007 System. In this context, Office Ultimate 2007 licenses will be made available for just $59.95 per item offering students: Access 2007; Accounting Express 2007; Excel 2007; InfoPath 2007; Groove ... [read more >>] | | 18 August 2008, 07:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Icahn's Right-Hand Men Confirmed for Yahoo!'s Board |  | Yahoo! has confirmed that two new directors who will be included in the executive board are from Carl Icahn's slate. The two businessmen are Frank Biondi and John Chapple, and are familiar with issues regarding media, entertainment, and even telecommunications and real estate. Previously, Biondi held executive roles in companies such as Universal Studios, Viacom, Hasbro, while Chapple was COO or president of enterprises like Hawkeye I ... [read more >>] | | 15 August 2008, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Limits of the Limitless Live Mesh |  | According to Microsoft, although the potential of Live Mesh is limitless, the cloud platform does have boundaries, especially in its current form. Introduced in April 2008, Live Mesh is a project developed under the new Software plus Services strategy of the Redmond co ... [read more >>] | | 15 August 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Virtual Earth Advertising |  | Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps are much more than just mapping, location and search services. Microsoft is in fact delivering a complete platform but, in this context, Rich Internet Applications are not the only thing that the Redmond company aims to attract. In fact, Live Search ... [read more >>] | | 14 August 2008, 13:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gates Applauds Microsoft Research Asia |  | Former full-time Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, whose presence in China was confirmed for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, also participated in the 10th Anniversary Innovation Forum in Hong Kong on August 12. Gates applauded the evolution of Microsoft Research (MSR) Asia, an organization that celebrated its first decade of existence. Microsoft's co-founder, joined by representatives from Hong Kong’s scholastic organizations and MSR Asi ... [read more >>] | | 14 August 2008, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Releases Faceted Search 2.5 |  | Version 2.5 of Faceted Search for Office SharePoint Server brings to the table a consistent collection of improvements on top of the inherent bug fixes associated with the introduction of a new build. According to Leonid Lyublinski, senior consultant, Microsoft Consul ... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2008, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Reaching the Next 5 Billion People, Microsoft Debuts New Programs |  | Microsoft has already indicated a strong commitment to reaching out to the next 5 billion people with initiatives such as the Unlimited Potential Group. And the Redmond giant is making good on the promise of making its technology ubiquitous beyond the existing first billion users of its software products. In this regard, the software company inked a partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. designed to introduce new community program ... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2008, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Blue Screen of Death Follows Windows to the 2008 Olympics |  | Wherever Windows goes... the Blues Screen of Death is bound to follow. And since Windows was an integral piece of the puzzle making up the IT infrastructure of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the now equally ubiquitous BSOD was also on sight. Furthermore, XP "participated" in the 2008 Olympic's opening ceremony in the Bird's Nest. And out of all the moments to fail, Windows Vista's predecessor lived up to the worst ... [read more >>] | | 12 August 2008, 12:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Slashes Office 2008 for Mac Prices |  | Microsoft is gearing up for the debut of a new school year, and the Redmond company is looking beyond the PC, at the Mac users running its Office suite tailored to Apple's computers. In this regard, discounts of up to 30% have been set in place for Office 2008 for Mac, the equivalent of the 2007 Office System for Windows. The Office 2008 copies with slashed prices are available from a variety of Apple resellers, but only wit ... [read more >>] | | 12 August 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox Triples Its Size |  | It's not really the biggest surprise of all times, but at least it is an official confirmation from Microsoft: the original 20GB Xbox 360 console triples its storage capacity to 60GB, keeping the same recently lowered price: £199.99.
The new console will be available in st ... [read more >>] | | 12 August 2008, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Popfly Gets Its Own "2008 Olympic" Games |  | For the billions that are not participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Microsoft has the perfect surrogate. Via Popfly, the Redmond company lets users get a shot at winning their own medals. But in addition to offering medals, Popfly also enables participants to rip the games and effectively build their own vers ... [read more >>] | | 11 August 2008, 08:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Money Is (Quasi) Dead |  | The 17th year of market availability for Microsoft Money, the Redmond company's personal-finance-management solution is synonymous with the death of two traditions associated with the product. First off, Microsoft will no longer release new versions on a yearly basis, and in ... [read more >>] | | 11 August 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Midori Will Not Kill Windows, Multiple Releases Coming, Beyond Windows 7 |  | The death of the mammoth Windows operating system releases was proclaimed even before the availability of Windows Vista. With Windows 7, Microsoft managed to prove that Windows was still very much alive and kicking. Now, a new product cooking in Redmond has the potential to make Windows history. With its roots deep in the Singularity operating system, the non-Windows Midori platform seems positioned on a trajectory intersecting that of Win ... [read more >>] | | 08 August 2008, 12:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Insight into Virtual Earth - The 216 Megapixel UltraCamX |  | Microsoft is offering a unique perspective behind its mapping, search and location service. An integral aspect of the infrastructure that contributes content, and ultimately permits the building and evolution of Virtual Earth, is a piece of photographic equipment that Microsoft produces itself, namely ... [read more >>] | | 08 August 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP Embedded Is Featured in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony |  | Microsoft's Windows operating system will not take center stage in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but this is not to say that it will not play an important role behind the stage, in the infrastructure of the event. One illustrative example in this context is Windows XP Embedd ... [read more >>] | | 08 August 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Xbox 360 Price Cut Rumors |  | So, there were rumors and then there was certainty. Microsoft has decided to drop the price of the 20 GB hard drive Xbox 360 to 299 dollars, while supplies last, as it was discontinuing it, while also introducing a new version of the console, sporting a 60 GB h ... [read more >>] | | 07 August 2008, 19:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Plans to Win in Europe |  | Even though the console war is a global "conflict," winning one of the three big regions – North America, Asia and Europe – could offer a console manufacturer company huge profits. Microsoft and their Xbox 360 kind of lost hope with Asia and especially Japan, even though the recently released ... [read more >>] | | 07 August 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| At $12,500 and $15,000, Microsoft Surface Is Not Going Mainstream |  | Whether Microsoft likes it or not, its first commercial surface computing product is still far from going mainstream. The largest impediment by far is the price tag of Microsoft Surface. The hardware built around a Windows Vista operating system and complemented by the surface computing technology developed by Microsoft Research will cost customers no less than $12,500 a pop. But at the same time, a single unit of Microsoft Surfa ... [read more >>] | | 07 August 2008, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft's Open Source Hosting Website - 1 Million Unique Visitors/Month |  | Although Microsoft and open source are two items situated by default at the opposite poles of the software environment, the Redmond company is increasingly breaking down the boundaries associated with its proprietary business model. The software giant's open source project hosting website is drawing in in excess of 1 million visitors a month, according to ... [read more >>] | | 07 August 2008, 07:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Final Live Search Webmaster Center Is Live |  | The final version of the Live Search Webmaster Center is now live, four months short of a year since the service debuted into Beta. Microsoft's focus with the Center was to provide a hotspot dedicated to the Search Engine Optimization tools and tasks associated with bridging websites with its search engine. Even though Microsoft ... [read more >>] | | 07 August 2008, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 Features Tropic Thunder Scavenger Hunt |  | Who said that advertising in videogames can only be intrusive and game breaking? Massive Inc., which is owned by Microsoft and boasts of being the leading provider of advertising in the videogaming medium, is partnering up with movie compan ... [read more >>] | | 06 August 2008, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Insight into the New Microsoft Vulnerability Exploitability Index |  | Microsoft’s monthly release of security bulletins is bound to get a tad richer as far as the information provided to customers is concerned come October 2008. This will happen via the new Exploitability Index, introduced at the Black Hat USA 2008 conference on August 5, 2008. The new resource was spawned in accordance with end user feedback, which required additional data from the Redmond company related to the vulnerabilities patched ever ... [read more >>] | | 06 August 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Avatars Will Probably Feature Micro Transactions |  | So, Microsoft is getting Avatars, which are just like Miis for the Nintendo Wii, only that they are destined to be used by Xbox Live users. In other words, Microsoft saw a nice concept that someone else created and decided to clone it and offer it as a great novelty to its users. The ... [read more >>] | | 05 August 2008, 19:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Security Programs from Microsoft |  | Black Hat USA 2008 was the stage where Microsoft revealed that it was kicking its security game up a notch. The software giant's commitment to protecting its customers has spawned a pair of new initiatives designed to enable a new level of security-information sharing. In this regard, the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) along with the new vulnerability Exploitability Index, are the programs offered to both end users and pa ... [read more >>] | | 05 August 2008, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Beware of Xbox Live Scam Message |  | Various Xbox Live users report that a new scam message seems to be making the rounds and warn everyone using the service provided by Microsoft and all the owners of an Xbox 360 to be careful with the messages they receive.
The new scam appears in ... [read more >>] | | 05 August 2008, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Poured $8.2 Billion into Research and Development |  | Microsoft is constantly claiming that is it one of the top companies worldwide when it comes down to coughing up money in order to drive innovation. And the Redmond company is certainly putting its money where its mouth is. According to its Annual Report on Form 10-K, the software giant has spent a pretty penny on research and development in the past fiscal year. Between July 2007 and the end of June 2008, the budget allocated to R&D a ... [read more >>] | | 05 August 2008, 09:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Investors Consider Annual Vote Results Inaccurate |  | The investors/directors’ annual meeting at Yahoo! didn't bring any changes in the board of directors. Despite the fact that some of the officials who played an important role in the rejection of the Microsoft proposal were criticized by investors, they still got an average of 80% positive votes.
This caught the attention of the Capital Research & Management investors, who own 6.5% of the Yahoo! shares. These people, ... [read more >>] | | 05 August 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Introduces Live Search Cashback Back-to-School Deals |  | At the end of May Microsoft introduced the Live Search Cashback initiative, in an effort to organically increase the market share of its search engine against Google. Paying end users for their searches was not by any means a new idea, and as far as the Redmond ... [read more >>] | | 05 August 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Analyze That: When Will We See Next Gen Consoles |  | Let's face it, gamers, current gen consoles are already obsolete. Not hardware wise, as there seems to be enough processing power in them to make them a match for mainstream PCs for at least a few years. Not software wise, as there are interesting games and AAA titles that are coming up on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. But they are obsolete as far as perceptions go. We know what do to with a Wii controller, we kno ... [read more >>] | | 04 August 2008, 19:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Anti-Microsoft: Linux, Open Source, Google and Apple |  | The anti-Microsoft recipe is rather simple and with evident ingredients. And in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Redmond giant spelled out the main risks and competitors to its business: ... [read more >>] | | 01 August 2008, 07:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Britons Look for Bargains and Saving Tips |  | The challenging economic environment is also reflected in the Internet use behavior in the U.K. People seem, now more than ever, inclined to navigate to webpages that offer discounts and saving tips. A snack-food business recorded an astonishing growth rate of 2,575% from last year, since its management decided to offer discounts to holidays spent in the U.K. for some of the clients. In June, the website of Walter Snack Foods registered, a ... [read more >>] | | 01 August 2008, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Don't Wait for the New Media Release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 |  | Microsoft released Windows Home Sever Power Pack 1 to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and subsequently the gold bits were made available through the Download Center. The Redmond company offered just the English version of the Power Pack initially, indicating that the German, Spanish and French versions would drop in August along with the Chinese and Japanese variants. Ten days after the RTM of PP1, Microsoft is telling customers ... [read more >>] | | 01 August 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Spells Danger for the New T-Mobile Sidekick |  | Microsoft spells Danger for the new T-Mobile Sidekick. The Redmond company is applauding the addition of a "soul" to T-Mobile's handset, with the solutions developed by Danger, a company the software giant acquired in mid-April 2008. According to Microsoft, the software ... [read more >>] | | 31 July 2008, 12:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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