Tag: steve ballmer
If the Xbox 360 isn't a games console, what is it? Steve Ballmer knows!
Steve, Steve, Steve Ballmer. Nothing makes us happier than your often bizarre, always excellent soundbytes concerning your gang Microsoft's gear! If you're not air-punching at press conferences, you're dropping stone cold clangers like this one; saying that your Xbox 360…
CES 2011 – Avatar Kinect unveiled
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer recently finished his big keynote announcing among other things, new tablet PCs and the very cool Surface technology. The big story though is that coming in Spring 2011 is Avatar Kinect. Using this technology Kinect will be…
Kinect and Windows Phone 7 marketing to cost Microsoft $1 billion+
Ever wondered how much it costs to market two high-profile tech launches in the same year? Well, if you're Microsoft looking to tout your new range of Windows Phone 7 devices and Xbox 360 motion-controlling Kinect kit, you're looking at…
Ballmer gives a sigh of relief as Windows 7 MasterPad tablet impresses
While you can't fault Steve Ballmer's enthusiasm when it comes to the potential of Windows 7 tablet devices, apart from the HP Slate and its now flaky position in tech Limbo Land, there hasn't really been too much hardware…
Windows tablets are "job one urgency" says Ballmer
Waiting patiently for a Microsoft Windows tablet to pop up in the shops? Don't fret; Steve Ballmer is still on it, re-iterating his Worldwide Partner Conference Keynote by promising they will hit shops before the year is out. "They'll be…
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft are "hardcore" about Windows 7 tablets
Just because the Courier and the "Slate" have died the death, don't think for one second that Microsoft have given up hope on the idea of Windows 7 tablets becoming the next big thing. Speaking at the Worldwide Partner Conference…
HP give up on Windows 7 tablet project
Hewlett-Packard are thought to have terminated work on the Windows 7 tablet project, just months after it was unveiled by Microsoft with great fanfare at CES 2010. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had spoke highly of the promise of the…
Microsoft unveil Windows Live Messenger Wave 4
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has lifted the lid on the latest version of Windows Live Messenger, dubbed "Wave 4". Better video chat, photo sharing, social network and cloud integration are top of the agenda in this latest revamp, Ballmer told…
CES 2010: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer opens CES, but does anyone care anymore?
Microsoft's Chief Exec Steve Ballmer officially opened the CES 2010 show in Vegas last night but failed to impress with a speech that started late due to technical problems (they should have used a Mac) and then went on for…
UPDATE – Microsoft: "We have no plans to introduce a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360"
The comment by the HD-DVD backing company had 360 owners laughing in the faces of smug PS3 owners, who already have built in Blu-Ray support.
