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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 of... |
1 August 2008
06:22 GMT |
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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 ... |
1 August 2008
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Peter Molyneux is one of the most interesting game designers in the industry. Sure, the first Fable was not all he advertised it to be and some gamers thought that the unrealistic expectations for the title were the direct result of Molyneux's statements while others feared that he might be hyping up the soon to... |
31 July 2008
18:56 GMT |
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MMOs are one of the last bastions of power left to PC gaming. World of Warcraft, Age of Conan or the upcoming Warhammer Online are games that are exclusive to the PC and that sport millions or hundreds of thousands of subscribers. There's nothing comparable on either the Xbox 360 or on the PlayStation 3, and one... |
31 July 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is proving that it's never too early to start gearing up for the availability of the next version of the Windows client. In this context, the Redmond company revealed that it is already hard at work to ensure that consumers would be able to benefit from a new standard of quality when it comes down to t... |
31 July 2008
06:35 GMT |
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In its latest legal initiative, Microsoft finds itself in the unusual position of a plaintiff in a patent case, although the company is often a target for IP infringement lawsuits. The Redmond giant has filed a complaint against Taiwanese-based Primax Electronics, with the Intellectual Property and Licensing, allegin... |
31 July 2008
05:28 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving fast when it comes to its gaming services, making them more attractive to the average gamer. The company has recently announced, at its Gamefest 2008, that the Games for Windows Live Gold membership is now free and will allow players to match up, chat and share content at will.Now it appears that ... |
30 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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There is so much life left into Windows, and Microsoft is gearing up for the moment when it completely runs out of what is now its proprietary operating system. In this context, the Redmond company is cooking a couple of non-Windows operating systems labeled Singularity and Midori. Singularity, a platform prototype w... |
30 July 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple. Furthermore, the Redmond company, once the epitome of the proprietary software business model, while still retaining its... |
30 July 2008
13:13 GMT |
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T. Boone Pickens, an investor who bought 10 million Yahoo! shares in May, hoping that an agreement with Microsoft would make him rich, has sold his entire acquisition. The reason is the same one that generated a lot of ink and also concerns among Yahoo! directors, who, for a while, were not so sure anymore whether th... |
30 July 2008
09:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded a new move designed to give it a tad more pull on the security market against the already established heavyweight players in the industry. Even though it has been offering Windows Live OneCare for approximately a couple of years now, the software giant is yet to gain the same status as its riv... |
29 July 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Britons continue to be most interested in portals, search engines and conversational media when they are navigating the web. Although the largest part of the population prefers these three types of online applications, the number of people using them has been rather stagnant over the last months. In June, as a comSco... |
29 July 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is hammering away at its Windows platforms beyond client and server in order to establish a bridge between the operating system and the cloud. In this context, the Redmond company indicated that its Automotive Platform is also evolving to find a place into the new Software plus Services business strategy. T... |
29 July 2008
04:42 GMT |
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With E3 criticized for not being the show that it should be, some videogaming industry companies are looking to other events as places where they can announce their most interesting projects. Microsoft has recently held its Gamefest 2008 conference and now it's talking about the future of the Halo franchise at C... |
28 July 2008
19:31 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft announced that Games for Windows Live was turning into a free service and everybody started to wonder whether the company will do the same with its Xbox Live service, too. It seems that, even though at the moment there's no such thing as "completely free" for Silver members, they do have the... |
28 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Windows codenamed Mojave is just around the corner and closer to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 than even Windows 7. The Reason for this is that Windows 7 is merely an evolution of the latest Windows client, while Windows codenamed Mojave is actually 100% Vista. And at the same time a Microsoft experiment in public per... |
28 July 2008
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Because of modern lifestyle being what it is, many people don't find the time to go to the cinema or even to DVD rental shops to see/acquire the latest motion pictures. Instead, most of these people rely on online renting, which gives them the possibility of either having their favorite DVDs delivered at home, o... |
28 July 2008
06:35 GMT |
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July 2008 represents yet another step further in the evolution of Microsoft Virtual Earth. Just over the past week, Microsoft added a new 14.3 terabyte (TB) update to Virtual Earth and expanded the team responsible for the service with the Photosynth project from Live Labs research. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Tec... |
28 July 2008
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As it usually happens in the gaming world, Europe is going to receive the highly anticipated Too Human a bit later than the North Americans but, this time, it's only a ten-day delay. Yes, this means that Too Human is coming to European consoles on the 29th of August this year (if you don't want to do the ma... |
28 July 2008
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At Gamefest 2008, Alcin Gendrano, who is group manager for Xbox Live Marketplace, and Chris Novak, lead design director for the Microsoft Game Studio, have talked about how paid downloadable content can create an alternative to the used games market, which now seems to be growing, especially as major retailers warm u... |
25 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Yahoo!, with its current share price placing around $20, is no longer a matter of interest for Microsoft. Although the Redmond company offered $33 per share in May, when it opened a bid to buy all of Yahoo!, the facts in the next moths proved that Microsoft could have stepped into a dangerous area. The company seems ... |
25 July 2008
11:03 GMT |
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At its gaming oriented conference, Gamefest 2008, Microsoft offered interested gamers a look at its upcoming Xbox Live Party feature, which is to be introduced on the Xbox 360 together with other updates during fall.Eric Heutchy, platform engineer at Microsoft, was the man demoing the new feature. He provided an over... |
24 July 2008
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Microsoft Gamefest 2008 has been a pretty packed conference, with some of the announcements coming out of the event more interesting than what Microsoft has shown at its recent E3 presentation. One of the biggest announcements so far was that Game for Windows Live Gold, the PC counterpart to the Xbox Live Gold, will ... |
24 July 2008
10:09 GMT |
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Indians' preferences when it comes to navigating on certain websites are definitely inclined towards Google. The company's websites were the most popular in India in May 2008, as a comScore report shows. With almost 20 million visitors, Google manages to overpass Yahoo!, which was first in the Indian rankin... |
23 July 2008
11:41 GMT |
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Just after E3 wrapped up, Microsoft decided to hold its own gaming-oriented conference, dubbed Gamefest 2008, and some of the announcements coming out of the event were actually more interesting than what the stuff featured at E3 showcased. Sure, it's unlikely we'll see the next Bungie project unveiled at G... |
23 July 2008
05:14 GMT |
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At long last, after months of speculation, Microsoft has revealed a few details regarding its upcoming DirectX 11. The company promises that, following the somewhat icy reception that the Vista only DirectX 10 has had, it will create a gaming graphics API that will improve the looks and the performance of AAA game ti... |
23 July 2008
02:55 GMT |
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In traditional fashion for big corporate players, Microsoft put on an E3 show that was big on flash and surprisingly low on substance. They're not really to blame as this year's edition saw all the big players hold events where little new stuff was showed and where hyping up already announced projects seeme... |
21 July 2008
09:24 GMT |
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A court of law has found Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former employee of industry giant Microsoft, guilty of embezzling approximately $1 million. Consequently, she was sentenced to 22 months incarceration time but, after she is done serving her time, she will continue to be closely supervised for a period of three years... |
19 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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Yahoo!'s Search market share is presented very differently by the two major companies that have conducted studies regarding the number of American people who performed searches in June. According to comScore, 20.9% of the users resorted to Yahoo! with their queries. However, Nielsen Online says that only 16.6% p... |
19 July 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Windows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure. Quite the opposite, in fact; according to the Redmond giant, Vista has sold over 180 million licenses in its first year ... |
18 July 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Microsoft plans to debut serving Windows Search 4.0 automatically to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 by the end of July. With the final version up for grabs through the Download Center since the beginning of June 2008, the Redmond company is now wrapping up Windows Search 4.0 for delivery through Windows Update. However... |
18 July 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a new update designed to take Windows Live Calendar beta to the next level. The surface changes the impact of the graphical user interface, enabling users not only to modify the color of a specific calendar in their list but also to choose its position. The extra UI options are available by rig... |
18 July 2008
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June 30, 2008 marked the last day of Bill Gates as a full-time Chairman of Microsoft and, at the same time, the end of the company's 2008 fiscal year. On July 17, the Redmond giant announced revenue of over $60.42 billion, representing a jump of 18% from the past FY. In just the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008, th... |
18 July 2008
05:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is saying that, after the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 and after computing full year reports, the Microsoft Xbox 360 division, which manages both hardware and software sales for the gaming console, is reporting an operating profit of 426 million dollars for the whole year.The results indicate that, for the... |
18 July 2008
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Rumors were ragging before E3 that Bungie was about to release some information regarding an upcoming project. Gamespot even said it had reliable insider information that detailed a new game in the Halo franchise which focused on squad based action and not on Master Chief. But Monday, the Microsoft press conference c... |
17 July 2008
19:51 GMT |
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It seems that, at long last, Microsoft has made up its mind regarding the addition of a Blu-ray player to the Xbox 360 gaming console. And the final answer, straight from the mouth of Shane Kim, one of the most important Xbox 360 spokesmen for the Redmond based company, is that there's no chance of ever seeing a... |
17 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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This is certainly a premiere... Windows 7 has managed to make it on a Microsoft.com home page for the first time. It's an unlikely position for the next iteration of the Windows operating system, which the Redmond company is keeping tight under wraps for now. And even more so as, following the Microsoft Worldwid... |
17 July 2008
09:53 GMT |
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On July 16, Microsoft confirmed officially that it was opening up the Tech Preview program for Live Mesh. However, the Redmond giant also indicated that Live Mesh had in no way evolved past the Tech Preview stage, but that more testers would be permitted to get a taste of the synchronization and collaboration platfor... |
17 July 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Maybe the biggest announcement to come out of Microsoft's E3 presentation was the fact that the long awaited Final Fantasy XIII, developed by Square Enix, is no longer a PlayStation 3 exclusive. The game will also be launched on Microsoft's own Xbox 360 and there's even some talk that the developers ha... |
17 July 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Microsoft offers an impressive collection of resources built around its Windows operating systems. There are in excess of 2,300 Windows help and how-to articles and demonstrations available straight from Microsoft. Under the old design of the Windows corner of Microsoft.com, the main focus was on Windows Vista, and t... |
16 July 2008
15:41 GMT |
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The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is designed to help customers get the most out of their Windows Vista clients, according to Microsoft's official description of the solution. Delivering a comprehensive package of technologies from virtualization to asset inventory service, but also including an advanced g... |
16 July 2008
09:40 GMT |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released on November 6, 2007 in North America and on November 9, 2007 in Europe, being one of the most expected titles of the year. Developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is available on multiple platforms, including here Xbox 360, Pla... |
16 July 2008
08:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the most vocal opponents of an online advertising and search partnership between direct rivals Google and Yahoo. The no. 1 and no. 2 Internet search and advertising players worldwide announced in the first half of the past month a non-exclusive alliance in a move designed specifically to keep Yaho... |
16 July 2008
07:54 GMT |
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Visitors to Microsoft's Forums starting at the end of the past week could notice various subtle changes impacting the user experience from new features to the disappearance of functionality issues. The Redmond giant effectively kicked its forums up a notch by introducing release 3.4, designed not only to resolve... |
16 July 2008
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Following the pseudo-retirement of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, now just part-time Chairman, the Redmond company, with Chief Software Architect at the helm, entered its new era. Microsoft 2.0 is synonymous with Software plus Services, a new business strategy reflected into all the aspects of the Redmond giant. Th... |
16 July 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Microsoft is still far from wrapping up with the third and final service pack for Windows XP, just the 32-bit version of Windows Vista's predecessor. And, at the same time, XP SP3 failed to have anything close to a smooth ride, although it did manage to veer away from the speed bumps hit by Windows Vista Service... |
16 July 2008
03:52 GMT |
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Microsoft was busy, busy showing off the Xbox 360 gaming console line-up for the coming months. Some really interesting games have been announced so read on to see what we are talking about.The Xbox Live offering alone takes up the space of an article. The biggest announcement here is that "Portal: Still Alive" is ge... |
16 July 2008
02:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is fighting to exorcise the evil out of the Google-Yahoo alliance. After Yahoo eluded Microsoft's $44.6 billion marriage proposal, it was quick to jump in bed with Google, and strike an online advertising and search partnership. The Redmond company failed to see any good in a combination of Google and ... |
15 July 2008
11:36 GMT |
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America's top 10 web brands for June starts with Google and ends with Apple. The ranking was made according to the number of unique users in the U.S. that visited certain pages, and was disclosed by Nielsen Ratings. Google has all the reasons to show off in front of its competitors, since its properties attracte... |
15 July 2008
10:39 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is looking very strong, after witnessing the presentation that Microsoft had at E3. We've already talked about Fable 2 to some extent and we knew most of the stuff that was shown in relation to Gears of War 2, but there's plenty more games to talk about when it comes to the Xbox 360.In a major ... |
15 July 2008
09:59 GMT |
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