Category: Microsoft
Xbox Live coming to Windows 8
Xbox Live will be an integral part of the Windows 8 PC experience, according to Microsoft's entertainment marketing chief Mile Delman. The Xbox 360 online gaming and media download platform has already spread its wings to Windows Phone 7 devices…
VIDEO: Pranksters paste giant Windows logo to front of world's largest Apple Store
Apple have a big day ahead of them, what with the WWDC 2011 conference kicking off at 6PM GMT, where Steve Jobs and co are expected to show off the iCloud, iOS 5 and OS X Lion among other…
Nokia boss Elop denies $19 billion Microsoft buy out
Nokia boss Stephen Elop has described the rumours that Microsoft are to buy the Finnish mobile phone firm for $19 billion as "completely baseless." Speaking at the D9 conference, Elop told the All Things Digital delegates that there was…
VIDEO: Windows 8 for tablets and touchscreens caught on camera
Microsoft have revealed an explanatory video of their forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, just a week after Steve Ballmer let slip the OS was on its way, and then hastily denied by the company. With a focus just as…
Android sales make more money for Microsoft than Windows Phone 7!
Great story coming in from the Guardian this morning; it turns out that Microsoft are making more money from Android than they are from sales of their own Windows Phone 7 handsets. How so, you wonder? Well it all revolves…
Windows 8 ready for tables and PCs in 2012 confirms Ballmer
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed that tablets and PCs will get their first taste of Windows 8 action in 2012. Speaking at the Microsoft Developers Forum in Japan, Ballmer stressed how Windows 8 was to be compatible with multiple…
US students get free Xbox 360 with new Windows 7 PCs and laptops
As if college kids on campus weren't having a wild enough time as it is, Microsoft are launching a pretty incredible deal to ensure new and continuing US students work hard and play hard during the next academic year. If…
Intel's Windows 8 complaints are misleading, say Microsoft
A war of words has begun between Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky and Intel senior vice president Renee James, after the Redmond giants claimed Intel have made innacurate claims about the forthcoming Windows 8 software. Speaking at the Intel Investor…
Skype in 2011 = $8.5 billion, Apple in 2004 = $7.5 billion
Just a quick stat here pointed out by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, following Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of VoIP company Skype. Roll back a mere seven years and Microsoft could have bought Apple for that much money, and still got…
Have Microsoft bagged Skype? [UPDATE – Yes, they officially have]
Remember last week when we told you that both Facebook and Google were fishing with big-money lures in an attempt to catch voice and video chat service Skype? Well forget that; it seems Microsoft are now the front runners to…
