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While Sony thinks that the physical distribution of software, like DVDs and Blu-rays or boxed games, isn't going anywhere in the near future, Square Enix sees not just the opposite, but the very apocalypse of things with shape and form. Yoichi Wada, the chief of Square Enix, predicts that not only will physical ... |
27 November 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Microsoft and NComputing have partnered over building solutions on top of the multiuser computing concept, which defines a model in which the resources of a single server machine are used to power experiences for multiple computer users concomitantly. Per the agreement inked by the two companies, NComputing will embr... |
26 November 2009
09:17 GMT |
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Microsoft has apparently filled for a patent for a hint system which will be used by videogames released on the Xbox 360 home gaming console. The aim is to allow players who have trouble getting past tough sections of the game to get hints provided by other players. It's not clear whether all the players will be... |
25 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Come the start of 2010, Microsoft will be swapping chief financial officers. The Redmond company announced that Chris Liddell, the current CFO, will be leaving after December 31st, in order to pursue opportunities outside of Microsoft. At the same time, the software giant has already identified a replacement, namely ... |
25 November 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Barack Obama, the President of the United States, has launched an initiative called “Educate to Innovate”, aimed at getting more people interested in topics related to the so-called STEM, which is science, technology, engineering and math. And it seems that big companies with a presence in the videogaming... |
24 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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This October, Microsoft's monarchic attitude showed itself once again when it decided to limit the possibility of using Xbox 360 addons that were not manufactured by the company itself. Everything that Larry Hryb deemed as "unauthorized Memory Units" became unusable after the update was applied on a 360 console.... |
24 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Microsoft applauded President Barack Obama for making science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education nothing short of a national priority, according to Pamela Passman, corporate vice president, Global Corporate Affairs. The Redmond company indicates that it will back government efforts designed to drive ... |
24 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Answers to questions related to what exactly is going on inside Microsoft’s Redmond campus are not easy to come by. Fact is that the software giant is doing its best to keep all internal affairs under a tight lid. Of course, every once in a while details do manage to sneak through the company’s fingers an... |
23 November 2009
10:29 GMT |
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In just 10 years since inauguration, Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus has grown to become the company’s second largest in the Unites States. Opened in October 1999, the campus in Silicon Valley was not only supposed to give Microsoft a foothold in the country’s high tech heart, but also establish i... |
23 November 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Just in time to catch the Modern Warfare 2 launch, Microsoft decided to initialize its own war, that against pirated Xbox 360 consoles. The company issued a huge ban across Xbox Live on all modded rigs and an overwhelming amount of players were outraged by this decision. Discussions of a lawsuit even began to emerge,... |
23 November 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Microsoft responded to allegations that its search/decision engine was delivering sanitized result to sensitive queries related to China in order to keep in line with the country’s communist dictatorship. Adam Sohn, Bing senior director, disputed accusations that the Bing search engine had been turned into a p... |
23 November 2009
06:06 GMT |
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About two weeks ago, Microsoft decided to deal another blow to the underworld of piracy, as a considerable number of modified Xbox 360 consoles had been banned from the Xbox Live. A lot of people, mostly those that ended up getting banned, were seriously frustrated by this decision, as one can only imagine, and it di... |
23 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the public availability of Office 2010 Beta 14.0.4536.1000, Microsoft has also widened the testing program for the next generation of SharePoint Server. In this regard, users can not only download the latest iteration of Office 2010 in Beta stage, but also access the first Beta development milesto... |
19 November 2009
09:48 GMT |
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A new prototype from Microsoft Live Labs is designed to change the way in which the end users look at the Web. In this regard, the Redmond company explained that Pivot was a project dedicated to make the Web more like an actual web, and less like a series of disparate pages. “Pivot makes it easier to interact w... |
19 November 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Microsoft and Yahoo have been engaged in a strange relationship for years now, but it is finally getting close to becoming official. The two Internet giants reached an agreement last summer, in which Yahoo practically handed over its search engine to Microsoft, but they haven't been able to actually sign it unt... |
19 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Windows Mobile 7, the next generation mobile operating system Redmond-based Microsoft has in store for its users, is expected to become available on the market sometime in late 2010. The news on the platform's availability window are rather old, and the same applies to the announcement regarding it, only that t... |
19 November 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Redmond-based software company Microsoft has just made Windows Mobile phone users' life a little more pleasant. The reason is the launch of a beta version of Office Mobile 2010, the next major flavor of Microsoft's software solution. Available for download for free from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, ... |
19 November 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Just three weeks have passed since Forza 3 was released, but it already seems like that was years ago. The racing sim was completely outshone by recent releases such as Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2. But Microsoft hasn't forgotten about its game just ... |
18 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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A Microsoft program aimed at supplying startups with the necessary technology investments at no upfront costs, to help young businesses survive through the initial, critical phases after debut, has evolved to the next stage. At the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, the Redmond company announced... |
18 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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For the past two decades, people using computers have been blessed and cursed to use mice and keyboards in order to input information into their machines. Over the years, these two components evolved to fulfill more and more complex tasks, but, for various types of applications, they simply no longer cut it. Drawing,... |
18 November 2009
05:24 GMT |
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We've already written about how Microsoft has begun to ban modded Xbox 360 home gaming consoles from the Xbox Live service, which includes severing access to multiplayer gaming and friend communication.There are estimates saying that no less than 600,000 users have been banned for modifying their devices, most o... |
18 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, has been diagnosed with cancer, as confirmed by Vulcan Chief Executive Officer Jody Allen. In a memo sent out to all employees of Vulcan, Allen’s company, Jody Allen, the sister of Microsoft’s co-founder, indicated her brother is battling non-Hodgkin&r... |
17 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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After months of Google losing execs and top level engineers, it's nice to see the company reverse the process for a change by snatching up engineering evangelist Don Dodge, recently laid off by Microsoft. Very recently, in fact, Dodge has only been out of a job for 11 days and blitzed through Google's hiri... |
16 November 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Nintendo is the biggest winner of the current console generation, with its Wii home console managing to consistently beat the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 when it comes to sales, despite having less storage space and a less powerful graphics engine, thanks to the impressive and forward looking motion tracking contr... |
16 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is reportedly preparing for the launch of a new software for the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, the latest version of its platform for mobile phones. The new software is none other than Office Mobile 2010, which might not make users of a WinMo-based device wait too long be... |
14 November 2009
05:40 GMT |
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The Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the application storefront Redmond-based software company Microsoft has put in place for the owners of any handset running under Windows Mobile 6.5, has been recently updated with a series of new features. Among them, the company included new anti-piracy protection features for the... |
14 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Redmond-based company Microsoft has recently delivered a series of updates for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the software solutions portal for users of handsets running under its smartphone operating system, Windows Mobile. The storefront was launched for WinMo 6.5-based devices on October 6, when it included a... |
13 November 2009
10:28 GMT |
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As weird as it may sound, Microsoft's loss of the Xbox 360 exclusivity of console Netflix streaming came in the nick of time. Last week, Sony also implemented this feature for its PlayStation 3, but it did so in a time window that offered Microsoft the perfect opportunity to strike back. Microsoft has a thing fo... |
13 November 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Microsoft will make available the next update to the service it has built around its Xbox console, come next week. Larry Hryb, the director of programming for the Microsoft gaming network Xbox Live, revealed that the Redmond company would offer all members of the Xbox LIVE community the latest refresh to the service ... |
13 November 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has offered official confirmation that a tool it is providing to forensics investigators has been leaked in the wild. Labeled Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) the solution is essentially a USB drive that bundles together several PC forensics utilities designed for law enforcement organiza... |
13 November 2009
06:41 GMT |
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When it comes down to Microsoft’s search/decision engine, some users are “more equal than others.” The Redmond company’s focus on English-speaking markets is obvious, initially with US users becoming first-class citizens of Bing, and now with the decision engine shading its Beta tag for UK cus... |
13 November 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Interacting with a game without holding any controller is probably the closest we're ever going to get to The Matrix. Still, playing a title by flapping your arms around like a chicken or by running around your bedroom from one corner to the other may be just another thing that makes video gamers seem like total... |
13 November 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has gone ahead with its plan to ban from the Xbox Live service those users that have modified their gaming consoles and are using it in order to run pirated videogames. The move comes as more and more developers, as revealed by a survey from TIGA, are saying that they are afraid of the impact piracy can hav... |
13 November 2009
02:59 GMT |
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The economy is still in a dire state and companies are firing people left and right but there are signs of recovery in some areas particularly in online advertising. After years and years of sustained growth, online advertising revenue actually declined in the first half of this year. But in the third quarter, the ma... |
12 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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Massive and comScore have put together what the two companies referred to as a breakthrough In-game advertising research methodology, designed to track the effectiveness of in-game advertising on the gamers’ online behavior. Labeled AdEffx Action Lift for Gaming, the system is set up to deliver a complex insig... |
12 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Simon Aldous has been talking through his hat, the Windows maker claims, when the company's partner group manager stated that Microsoft tried to “create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” for Windows 7. As reports circulating on the Internet say, Aldous appeared to admit that... |
12 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Back in 2006, when it inked a strategic interoperability and intellectual property assurance agreement with Novell, Microsoft also tapped the other top Linux vendor worldwide, Red Hat, for a similar alliance. Red Hat might have said “no” to the IP assurance marriage proposal from the Redmond company, but ... |
12 November 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Microsoft first announced its Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, but it was rather unspecific regarding how close the project was to its finalization. Neither a release date nor any details regarding how much it might cost have been offered as of yet. The camera-sensing motion technology was ... |
12 November 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially announced that on November 19, it will launch the second season of the 1 vs. 100 quiz game on the Xbox Live service. The company hopes that the popular social title, coupled with the introduction of Facebook, Last.fm and Twitter to the Xbox 360 console, will attract more casual players to the... |
12 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Redmond-based Microsoft launched about a month ago its software solutions portal for the mobile phones that run under its own operating system, the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The launch of the storefront coincided with the release of the first handsets running under Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest flavor of the O... |
12 November 2009
02:58 GMT |
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A physical tour of Bill Gates’ mansion in Medina comes with a price tag of no less than $35,000. But of course the lucky recipient gets all the money’s worth. This because Big Gates himself will act as the official guide for the tour. You didn’t really believe that the world’s top billionaire... |
12 November 2009
02:10 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is in for some real treats this month, as the Xbox Live will get a whole-new set of features. The firmware update, which, let's hope, will fare better than the PS3 ones, will integrate Twitter and Facebook and Music Marketplace that will enable Last.fm streaming. It will also bring a News tab with a... |
11 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has released updates to the Mac versions of its popular suite of office apps, Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 editions. Available as free downloads right here, on Softpedia, the updates deliver improvements to enhance the stability, compatibility, and performance of the software for the 2008 edition, and sec... |
11 November 2009
09:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has kicked off a new online show placed at the intersection of heath and information technology, as the company put it. Microsoft Health Tech Today is an online destination for organizations involved in the health care industry, designed to offer insights into how technology in general, and software produc... |
11 November 2009
04:48 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft seems to have already established a roadmap for the future release of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7. Some of the previous rumors on the upcoming platform suggested that the company might release Windows Mobile 7 to manufacturers in spring 2010, and that the first... |
11 November 2009
03:29 GMT |
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With the growing popularity and widespread usage on non-Windows operating systems, Microsoft saw the need to somehow extend the compatibility of its DPM 2010. Up until now, this data-protection manager only provided backup solutions for server environments operating on the Windows OS. The purpose of this pact between... |
10 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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A strategic alliance inked by Microsoft and Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. (CHT) is designed to enable the latter to deliver services that span across the PC, mobile devices, and TV, both to businesses and to end users in Taiwan. According to the Redmond company, Simon Leung, corporate vice president, chairman and CEO of ... |
10 November 2009
04:48 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has been rumored quite a few times before to be on the verge of being taken over by Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, and now the same rumors made it back to the headlines. The basis is a very simple one: RIM has seen its shares falling recently, and that would lea... |
7 November 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Think of Halo 3: ODST as a centaur. Or as a gryphon. Or as a mermaid. Or as any other creature that is half an entity and half another. In the case of Halo 3: ODST, it is clearly half Master Chief and half human. Half classic firefights, pitched battles that never let you hold your breath and get the adrenalin pumpin... |
6 November 2009
04:52 GMT |
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BSQUARE Corporation has announced today it has become the first company in the world that will distribute Microsoft's Windows Mobile software and mobility applications all around the world. As the recent agreement the two signed reveals, the software giant will provide to the market Windows Mobile licensing... |
6 November 2009
02:52 GMT |
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