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Xbox 360 wants to become the key component of your living room
Seeing Microsoft struggle in multiple fronts seems interesting, to say the least. It’s obvious that the Redmond giant is looking for the next big thing, although not all of its strategies are safe bets. Social networking might seem off and Skype is now facing harsher competition but there is o... Read more06 Dec 2011 - 101 reads
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Microsoft’s social network aims to be “the new classroom”
A month ago, the latest Microsoft project leaked into the Internet and raised many questions. The Redmond company was working on a social network and many argued that such ship had already sailed for the tech giant. But there was something different in its development and its approach to social netw... Read more16 Dec 2011 - 97 reads
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Windows 8 promises revolutionary login system
We’ve all struggled with passwords in one point of our lives. Those combinations of characters and symbols that try to sell us the idea of security in an utterly unsafe computer world surely have had frustrated us in some moment in our brief history with PCs. Remembering them, making them up, ... Read more20 Dec 2011 - 85 reads
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Next-gen Xbox will be six times more powerful
It’s hardly surprising to learn that Microsoft would be working on the next-gen Xbox(currently baptized by the press as “Xbox 720”). With a life cycle of almost 7 years, the Xbox 360 it’s obviously reaching the end of the line, although Microsoft’s executives expected i... Read more26 Jan 2012 - 124 reads
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Microsoft Announces Funding For the Best Business Ideas for Kinect
Ever since it was first released, Kinect has been source of inspiration for all kinds of developers, always coming up with new ways to use Microsoft s motion sensor device. There have been a number of hacks taking advantage of the gadget to help gamers and non-gamers alike, something that the compan... Read more29 Nov 2011 - 123 reads
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Microsoft working on a PC-specific Kinect
Not long ago, Microsoft announced the release of a Kinect SDK for commercial applications , that will be made available early next year. With the launch of such tools, the Redmond company would be looking to spread Kinect’s capabilities to as many technological fields as possible. But apparen... Read more24 Nov 2011 - 94 reads
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Kinect SDK for commercial use arriving in early 2012
Almost a year after its groundbreaking launch, the Kinect technologies will finally be available for developing commercial applications. Although intended for entertainment purposes, the motion-sensor device has proven to be a valuable ally for other ends, which confirmed that such gadget doesn&rsqu... Read more01 Nov 2011 - 121 reads
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Microsoft releasing critical patch for Windows 7
In a problematic week for the company, Microsoft has announced its plans to release a patch for a critical Windows 7 bug, which will be seeing the light of day in the next week. The update will fix 4 different vulnerabilities, 3 of which are considered of importance. However, and in spite of recent ... Read more04 Nov 2011 - 103 reads
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Windows 8 would reduce its restarting needs
Most Windows users will certainly have come across numerous frustrations when using Micrsoft’s OS. Crashes, blue screens, assistants unable to solve anything are but a few of the long list of hateful things a person can encounter in his Windows voyage. But if something has bothered me througho... Read more17 Nov 2011 - 115 reads
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Microsoft Socl: the software giant enters the social networking arena
Word got out that Microsoft itself would be testing a new social network with a slightly different approach to the already existing ones. Believing that social searches are somewhat part of the future on the Web, the Redmond company would be focusing in what users are searching (instead of the tradi... Read more17 Nov 2011 - 111 reads
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