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Zune

Today Microsoft confirmed specs on its upcoming Zune digital media players.  The Seattle based giant will offer a 120GB, 16GB, and 8GB model with the 120GB version being hard-drive based and the smaller 16GB and 8GB being flash-based.
The new Zunes will allow users to easily download tunes from Zune Marketplace with the device’s on-board WiFi [...]

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Microsoft SideWinder X6

Today at a gaming convention in Germany, Microsoft showed its SideWinder X6 keyboard and new X5 mouse.  The new pairing is designed for hard core gamers and the X6 keyboard offers the “first-ever” switchable key pad.
The X6 keyboard offers a detachable number pad that can be switched to either side for user’s preference [...]

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120GB Zune

Microsoft’s new portable media player is out of the bag as the FCC gave the a-okay for the new 120GB Zune.
Looking similar to its 80GB brethren, the 120GB model seems the same in all other categories including size.  The only real change is storage capacity.  The 120GB Zune slides in nicely between Apple’s offerings [...]

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Microsoft Vista Hacked

Expect Bill to come out of/hold off his retirement for this bad boy! Last week the Black Hat hacking conference revealed a fundamental flaw in Microsoft Vista’s security, which cannot be fixed. According to Alexander Sotirov of VMware Inc and Mark Dowd, who belongs to IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS), the flaw in [...]

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Microsoft’s Midori Platform

With Big Bill leaving office, Microsoft is certainly making some pretty radical changes. The advertisement campaign promoting Vista is nothing compared to the news we have on ‘Midori’. According to SD Times, an internal Microsoft document that has been leaked reveals that the super-kings of computing are working on a non-Windows, componentized platform [...]

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The ‘OLPC’

Microsoft has officially completed the OLPC version of Windows XP, and is ready to begin the distribution process. The operating system has been watered down to support the low-end computers, and is only intended for use on the OLPC systems; computers designed primarily for users in poor countries.  Through the barebones version of XP, [...]

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Although there are still people longing for the warm embrace of Windows XP, its younger brother Vista apparently has a following.  Microsoft this afternoon as part of its quarterly results said that Vista has sold 180 million copies in the 18 months since its release in January of 2007.
According to the numbers, Windows Vista has [...]

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Netflix

Microsoft has announced a new partnership with online movie renter Netflix that will provide Xbox 360 owners the luxury of streaming movies direct to their gaming consoles.
The deal, announced yesterday, will let Netflix subscribers stream over 10,000 movies and TV shows directly to Xbox 360 consoles for instant playback on their televisions. Netflix currently offers [...]

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Final Fantasy On Xbox 360 And PS3

For those that were holding their breath for the news that Final Fantasy XIII will be exclusively for the PS3, open that airway now. Microsoft has got in on the deal and at E3 recently announced that the upcoming game will be available concurrently on the Xbox 360 as [...]

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The Microsoft ‘Arc Mouse’

Somewhat out of the blue, Microsoft have announced their new ‘VX Nano’ competitor; the Microsoft ‘Arc Mouse’. The mouse offers a distinctive foldable design that we have yet to see on other devices. The large off-centre hinge allows the device to be folded away for transport. To complement this, the arc-like design [...]

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