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Games
Xbox 360 Wireless N Adaptor Review
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Sure, wireless n is great and everything, but if you told me I’d be streaming media between 2-3 times faster through Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 Wireless Adaptor (802.11a/b/g/n) than their old a/b/g version, I’d never have believed you. More »
Hardware
Microsoft Sued For Killing Off Third Party Xbox 360 Memory Units
9:10AM Rosa Golijan | Datel, a company selling memory units for Xbox 360 consoles, filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft for blocking unauthorised third party memory units. Microsoft claims innocence, as the block is meant to reduce cheating on Xbox Live, not reduce competition. More »
Online
The Definition Of Evil: Microsoft’s Search Wars Hurt Us All
5:32AM Brian Lam | Microsoft may pay Murdoch to de-list from Google. If it happens, it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if all the world’s content is exclusive to some engines and we have to search them all to find what we want? Hell! More »
Software
Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales In 2007)
4:20PM Dan Nosowitz | March, 2007: Windows Vista’s initial sales are great, “more than doubling” those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234 per cent higher than Vista’s. Those numbers sound awfully similar… More »
Software
Windows 8 Expected In 2012 According To Roadmap
10:29AM Rosa Golijan | Apparently we won’t have to deal with upgrading our Microsoft-driven computers for another three years. According to a tentative roadmap, the next version of the OS, Windows 8, won’t be arriving until 2012. More »
Software
Microsoft Denies Programming Backdoors For NSA In Windows 7
5:32AM Mark Wilson | Hey now! Just because the NSA helped Microsoft hone the security of Windows 7 doesn’t mean Microsoft designed special backdoors for the organisation to spy on us… right? More »
Games
Banned Xbox Users Plan Class-Action Lawsuit, Claim Conspiracy
3:02AM Adam Frucci | Microsoft recently banned a whole lot of modded consoles. Was it to prevent piracy, or was it a conspiracy? A new lawsuit is positing the latter theory. More »
Business
1:40AM Jesus Diaz | This year’s Microsoft shareholder meeting wasn’t a lot of fun for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, thanks to shareholders grilling him about Apple and the iPhone with questions like the above. Ballmer smacked him right back: More »
Apple Vs Microsoft Wars Reach MS Shareholder Meeting
1:40AM Jesus Diaz | This year’s Microsoft shareholder meeting wasn’t a lot of fun for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, thanks to shareholders grilling him about Apple and the iPhone with questions like the above. Ballmer smacked him right back: More »
Software
Microsoft, You Can’t Win By Coming In Last Place
12:22AM Mark Wilson | I know Microsoft has only recently broken ground on Internet Explorer 9, but why would you ever release a graph in which you were the admitted worst at a task? More »
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