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The Age of Empires series might now be reduced to an online-only free-to-play game, but it was once one of the biggest sellers of the industry and a series that was closely watched by the media.
Tony Goodman, one of the co-founders of the now-defunct Ensemble Studios, has told Gamasutra that, “Magazines like t... |
24 April 2012
20:21 GMT |
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It’s been a while since Microsoft launched SkyDrive file sync service, but they finally managed to roll out a desktop client to handle the transfer of the data in the cloud in an easy and comfortable fashion.
SkyDrive client installs quickly and offers little configuration options to tinker with. It’s so... |
24 April 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated the SkyDrive app on iOS devices, bringing better management features and sharing options to iPhone and iPad. The company is also releasing a new preview client for OS X Lion, letting users manage their SkyDrive right from the Finder.SkyDrive 2.0 for iOS now supports the iPad’s big screen, ... |
24 April 2012
04:21 GMT |
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The patent war is getting ridiculous but, until the bubble bursts, patents are now fetching dizzying valuations and are sold by the hundreds. Facebook has just announced that it has acquired some 650 AOL patents via Microsoft. If you're getting a sense of deja vu is because Microsoft bought those patents only a ... |
23 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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A brand-new batch of images depicting gameplay and artwork from the upcoming Halo 4 has appeared on the web, this time showing off Master Chief, as well as all sorts of other things, from environments to enemies and multiplayer Spartans.
Microsoft kept Halo 4 under a shroud of secrecy for quite a long time, but in t... |
23 April 2012
12:21 GMT |
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The Microsoft Media Platform is a powerful framework for developing video streaming services and HTML 5, Silverlight, Windows 8 Metro and Windows Phone multimedia players.At its core, the platform is split in two major parts:A Player Framework for Silverlight and Windows Phone.(Download from Softpedia here)A Player F... |
23 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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After releasing Office 2011 Service Pack 2 for Mac users earlier this week, Microsoft began noticing reports from customers who were experiencing problems with the update. The company has since decided to stop distributing SP2 through AutoUpdate.In a blog post over at Office: mac, Microsoft states that, “On Apr... |
21 April 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Although there are countless petitions against Games for Windows Live in which fans complain of Microsoft’s lackluster platform, the company will continue to promote it, even if the upcoming Windows 8 operating system will have a deep integration with the Xbox Live online service.Microsoft, despite owning the b... |
21 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The much-talked-about Halo movie project has apparently failed because Microsoft, a company well versed in how the video game industry works, has failed to follow the usual business practice of the movie industry in Hollywood.
The book Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood, from Jamie Russell, says that ... |
20 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless is expected to add to its lineup some more Windows Phone devices in the not too distant future, the latest reports on the matter suggest. The wireless carrier has already had Windows Phones available for its users, but it appears that it plans on making far more of them available for purchase. In... |
20 April 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is gearing up for the release of a new flavor of its Windows Phone mobile platform before the end of this year, namely Windows Phone 8 (codenamed Apollo). The company hasn’t yet made an official announcement on the platform, but it has been pushing out new OS versions reg... |
20 April 2012
03:06 GMT |
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The pressure of PC-based players who tend to look unfavorably upon Games for Windows Live from Microsoft might apparently still be enough to persuade publisher Namco Bandai to drop the service for the upcoming launch of Dark Souls, with more information promised to fans at E3. Daisuke Uchiyama, who is the publishing... |
20 April 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Joe Dimiero, who is handling public relations for Microsoft, has confirmed that Conan O’Brien and his sidekick Andy Richter, now appearing on Conan on TBS, will actually lend their voices to the upcoming Halo 4.
The pair suggested that they would be featured in the game during their show, just as they showed s... |
19 April 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and publisher Microsoft has taken over another site that was used to scam players by offering to sell them Halo 4 beta keys.
The Halo4Beta.biz website has been acquired by Microsoft after it had lodged a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, and the company has posted a message... |
19 April 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Xbox Live Free users will be able to experience all of the entertainment apps available on the console’s Xbox Live online service starting tomorrow, as Microsoft is allowing them access to these applications even if they don’t have a Gold subscription.The Xbox 360 has slowly turned into a true entertainme... |
18 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Few independent games have been as eagerly awaited as Fez, the recently launched puzzle platformer from Polytron, which arrived on the Xbox 360 console, via the Xbox Live Arcade service, only last week.
After spending quite a few years in development, during which it earned lots of awards and praise for its novel pr... |
18 April 2012
09:41 GMT |
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After a pretty major rumor yesterday, Microsoft has officially revealed the launch date for Halo 4, as the next iteration in its sci-fi first-person shooter series will come out on November 6, only for the Xbox 360.
Halo 4 has been in development for quite some time, with studio 343 Industries trying hard to honor t... |
18 April 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Apple's iPad continues to lead the worldwide tablet market with a clear advantage, but its opposition is adamant in its drive to change the layout of this facet of the industry.
Regardless of what most would have one think, the current state of the tablet market is a bit on the sad side, so to speak.
After al... |
18 April 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is set to unveil the launch date for its upcoming Halo 4 shooter later today, as sources are already claiming that the game will be released on November 6.
Halo 4 has been awaited for quite some time by lots of fans, but not a lot of details have actually been revealed by its publisher, Microsoft, or its d... |
17 April 2012
05:23 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft made available for download a new flavor of the Bing Translator app for Windows Phone. Up for grabs in the Windows Phone Marketplace, the new version of the mobile software is meant to provide a better experience when it comes to translating printed text snapped with the handset’s camera.... |
17 April 2012
02:11 GMT |
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Experts from Vulnerability Lab have been busy aiding Microsoft patch up some serious vulnerabilities that affected two of their services. The most important security hole was a persistent script code inject vulnerability that has been found in Microsoft Partner Network Cloud service.
To demonstrate their findings, t... |
14 April 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Despite the fact that quite a few rumors have appeared recently claiming that next generation consoles, like the PlayStation 4 (Orbis) or Xbox 720 (Durango), won’t play used games, analyst Michael Pachter believes such a thing won’t happen. While neither Sony nor Microsoft are admitting that they’r... |
13 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Service Pack 2 for Office for Mac 2011 is now available for download, Microsoft has announced. The update focuses on improving Outlook and includes several fixes and tweaks demanded by the user base, according to the makers of the Windows operating system. Over at the Office for Mac blog, Microsoft’s Pat Fox w... |
13 April 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Seven mobile games are now available for purchase on Windows Phone devices for only $0.99 a piece, Microsoft has just announced officially. These are the same titles that, last week, were said to become cheaper for Windows Phone users, and include Angry Birds, Burn the Rope, de Blob, Doodle God... |
12 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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A huge batch of screenshots with Halo 4 has just been posted by Game Informer magazine, showing off both the protagonist, Master Chief, his trusty sidekick, Cortana, as well as quite a lot of gameplay from the story and the multiplayer modes. We’ve been hearing quite a lot about Halo 4 in the last few days, as... |
12 April 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving closer to the launch of the next flavor of its mobile operating system, supposedly dubbed Windows Phone 8. Reportedly, the company is working on testing the upcoming platform to make sure that it is compatible with existing software, just as previously promised. The “I'm a WP7!&rdquo... |
11 April 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly taking a new step towards putting together its products, through packing a series of Kinect features inside the next release of Windows Phone. Rumor has it that the company has started working on integrating the Kinect NUI (Natural User Interface) in the mobile operating system. Windows Ph... |
11 April 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Among the 6 security bulletins released by Microsoft as part of the April 2012 updates, there’s one that addresses a vulnerability that’s already being leveraged to launch a limited number of targeted attacks. Because of the current attacks, this update is considered to be the most important of this month... |
11 April 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Netflix has just posted an update for its special application on the Xbox 360 platform, adding quite a few new features and increasing the reliability of the app when used by owners of the Microsoft console.
The Xbox 360 is becoming a true entertainment center for its owners, largely because Microsoft is introducing... |
11 April 2012
03:04 GMT |
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The April 2012 security updates from Microsoft address a number of vulnerabilities, among which a critical remote code execution issue in the .NET Framework. The security hole could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code.
The flaw can be exploited if the attacker can convince the victim to open a speci... |
11 April 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Today, AOL and Microsoft announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of over 800 patents and their related patent applications from AOL, for aggregate proceeds of $1.056 billion in cash. Additionally, as part of this agreement, Microsoft receives a non-exclusive license to AOL’s retaine... |
9 April 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Gambit, the hacker that recently identified some serious XSS vulnerabilities in sites such as Edmodo and HP, confronted Microsoft regarding the lack of cross-site scripting (XSS) filters in the MSN Explorer browser. MSN Explorer is a browser, similar to Internet Explorer, which integrates some features like Windows ... |
7 April 2012
09:21 GMT |
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After many people expressed their mixed feelings while playing, or at least seeing gameplay footage of its Kinect Star Wars title, Microsoft has made an official statement, saying that the game controlled only through the player’s motions, is designed to appeal to all Star Wars fans, not just core gamers. Lots... |
6 April 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7 Connector, Microsoft’s application designed to sync files between your Mac and your Windows Phone 7 or Zune HD, has been updated to version 2.02, which adds (among other things) full sync and import support for Apple’s professional photography software, Aperture.
Using Windows Phone 7 Co... |
5 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has just registered some more domain names that relate to its very popular Halo franchise, hinting to the announcement of something called Halo Infinity.The Halo series is set to receive a brand new game later this year, in the form of Halo 4, but Microsoft is already hedging its bets and has begun register... |
5 April 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Yesterday we learned from FireEye researchers that Microsoft failed to take down 3 command and control (C&C) servers used by the ZeuS botnet that it disrupted last week. As it turns out, Microsoft left the servers alive intentionally.
We have contacted Microsoft representatives and asked for clarifications regarding... |
5 April 2012
12:53 GMT |
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Last week we learned that Microsoft managed to disrupt a major botnet powered by the infamous ZeuS Trojan. However, it turns out that they didn’t sinkhole all the command and control (C&C) servers, as three of them escaped the long arm of the Redmond company.
FireEye researchers analyzed the botnet targeted by... |
4 April 2012
10:04 GMT |
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It took Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace about four months to reach 80,000 apps submitted, after the store exceeded the 50,000 apps barrier back in December.
AAWP reports that as of April 1st, Windows Phone Marketplace has 82,234 apps, 20,327 developers, whilst the proportion of quality apps (rated five o... |
4 April 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has just unveiled a brand new reward scheme for its Xbox 360 owners all around the world. They are offering free MS Points for different types of activity on their consoles, ranging from actually playing games to enjoying entertainment apps or social services. The Xbox 360 has transcended its gaming role a... |
4 April 2012
04:25 GMT |
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After quite a few rumors about the new PlayStation 4 (aka Orbis), the other next generation console, Microsoft’s Xbox 720, has also been the subject of a new batch of reports. They claim that it will be released towards the end of 2013, has a built-in Blu-ray drive and requires an always-on internet connection.... |
3 April 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft and Google may be going head-to-head in plenty of areas and there's quite a bit of healthy and some unhealthy competition between the two companies. But it seems that, while the people with the loudspeakers (PR) are throwing punches, the engineers at both companies can come to terms on the practical ma... |
2 April 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker Microsoft has issued a statement denying that the hard drives of its Xbox 360 home console stole the credit card data linked to the player accounts.
The denial comes after a report from a research group working at Drexel University, who claims that it has managed to get access to the credit... |
31 March 2012
03:36 GMT |
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Microsoft has just unveiled a series of three new entertainment apps for its Xbox 360 console, in the form of Comcast’s Xfinity TV, HBO’s Go, and MLB’s streaming service. The Xbox 360 is becoming more than just a games console nowadays as after last year’s dashboard update, Microsoft is banki... |
28 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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We all know that Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of a tablet PC that would run under Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform, though no specific details on it have emerged so far, at least not officially. However, what appears to be the first leaked photo with the device allegedly made a... |
28 March 2012
10:56 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Live service for its home console has seen more users use it for video and music than playing video games, which signals a wider shift in the user base.
For a long time the company stated that it wanted to make the Xbox 360 more of an entertainment ... |
28 March 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Video game publisher Microsoft has launched a new video for its free-to-play online strategy game Age of Empires Online, designed to explain the core concepts of the game to those players who are not yet familiar with it and persuade them to try it out. Age of Empires Online allows gamers to engage in normal strateg... |
28 March 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Microsoft researchers Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley take a look at banking fraud from a different angle in their paper called Is everything we known about password stealing wrong. The experts highlight the fact that financial institutions are spending large amounts of money for protecting their customers passwor... |
28 March 2012
03:40 GMT |
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AT&T officially confirmed the upcoming availability of Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II starting April 8. The carrier also announced the former will be available for as low as $99, with the latter for $199.
Both deals require customers to commit to a new two-year agreement. Even so, the Lumia 900 price seems to be a... |
27 March 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has just kicked off a very special promotion to Xbox Live users who’ve yet to sign up for a Gold membership, as everyone who gets a subscription of a minimum of six months receives five free games as digital downloads.
Xbox Live Gold members enjoy quite a lot of features, including multiplayer access... |
27 March 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that it's blocking Pirate Bay links in Windows Live Messenger conversations. As we expected, the links were blocked by the spam/malware filters Live Messenger employs. Microsoft hasn't explained why Pirate Bay links in particular were blocked or whether the block will be lifted any t... |
27 March 2012
04:35 GMT |
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