Students who buy select Windows 7-based PCs will get a free Xbox 360 console with purchase. Microsoft announced a new offer for students who purchase a new Windows 7-based PC. Starting May 22, students buying a new Windows 7-based PC priced at $699 (U.S.) or more will also get a free Xbox 360 4GB console. [...]
There are reports circulating around the internet about some new stuff that will come to our attention at the 2011 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, next January. The reports talk about a new series of tablet PCs running Windows 7 to be presented by none other but Microsoft’s famous CEO, Steve Ballmer. [...]
Black Friday was the day of the year for many shoppaholics but for many gamers as well. Microsoft announced that Kinect for Xbox 360 topped the 2.5 million unit sales worldwide. This is not something out of the ordinary for an Xbox product, after all during Black Friday every American could buy a Kinect for [...]
Kinect for Xbox 360 soldone million units worldwide in 10 days and is on pace to hit five million by the end of the year. The announcement comes a week before the biggest selling day of the year, Black Friday, and in the wake of increasing momentum for Xbox 360, which led U.S. video game [...]
Twitter, known for having an app for almost every platform, now has one for Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system. The app has been announced today and is already available. It promises to do everything a Twitter user would want such an app to do, and that is a [...]
Microsoft has launched the Apple version of its productivity suite, the Microsoft Office 2011. The package comes with a new version of Microsoft Outlook that has been specially built for Apple’s Mac. The suite supports those cloud based services Windows users have since the launch of Microsoft Office 2010 for this platform. The reason for [...]
Microsoft has presented its “game controller without a game controller” at E3 this year. It is a revolutionary idea: to control your character in a game simply by moving your arms and legs, without any mechanical or electronic devices to limit your movement. And here it is: Sony has launched Move last month, and Microsoft [...]
Windows Phone 7 is a mobile operating system that is finally something different. Well, not in its functions: due to its nature, a mobile operating system will always be a mobile operating system. Microsoft’s new mobile OS looks like its functions were “inspired” by competitors like Apple, Google, but it has something that’s completely new: [...]
Windows 7 is a successful operating system – the fastest selling OS Microsoft has ever released, according to a statement released by the company. The success of the operating system has helped the Redmond giant to have profits even if the overall computer sales have not grown significantly over the last year. Windows 7 was [...]
There has always been a war on the search engine market: there are lots of important players on the market and all of them fight for winning the heart (and the clicks) of their users. The two most important players on the actual search engine battlefield are Google and Bing, both of them with their [...]