Hardcore Windows 8 hater finds something to like in upcoming update
Slowly but surely, Microsoft is taking baby steps to appease longtime Windows desktop users who absolutely hate the changes Microsoft made with Windows 8. Earlier …
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Titanfall for the Xbox 360 has been delayed until next month
Being stuck in the last generation of consoles doesn’t mean you’ll have to miss out on one of the biggest games of 2014, but it …
Microsoft is also working on virtual reality gear for Xbox One
PlayStation 4 fans finally got their first official taste of Sony’s plans for virtual reality gaming when the company unveiled “Project Morpheus” on Tuesday night. …
Microsoft will take its sweet time launching the Xbox One in new markets
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new Xbox One launch plans for many international markets on top of the 13 countries the console is already available in, …
Video: One of Xbox One’s most amazing future features now in open beta
One of the ways Microsoft hopes to retake the lead from Sony in the latest console wars is through the quality of its console-exclusive games. …
Details on Microsoft’s next big Xbox One update emerge
The next Xbox One update preview is already live for beta program participants, just two weeks after the last major update rolled out to the …
Upgrading from Windows XP can now get you $50 worth of free stuff
People, what is it going to take for you to finally ditch Windows XP? Microsoft has already sent out plenty of warnings to XP users …
Xbox One hardware sales double in one key market thanks to Titanfall debut
Microsoft has never been able to establish as strong a presence in the console market overseas as it has in the U.S., but Titanfall’s launch …
Xbox VP: It was a mistake to ‘sugar-coat’ the Xbox One controversy
Long before sales figures and game releases dominated the headlines, the only thing any gamer wanted to talk about was Microsoft’s radical online strategy for …
PS4 maintained narrow sales lead in February, but Xbox One pulled in more money
There was no changing of the guard in the United States last month as new video game consoles from Sony and Microsoft continued to battle …
How Google and Microsoft are forcing OEMs to cancel dual-booting products
After a couple of reports from Taiwan suggested that Google may be posing significant opposition to Asus’ plans to ship the dual-booting Android/Windows Transformer Book …
Microsoft scraps two-year Xbox contract plans
For a while, Microsoft experimented with selling its Xbox consoles the same way many mobile carriers sell smartphones: By offering them at a discount in …
Microsoft comes under even greater pressure to release Office for iPad
Why Microsoft has held out for so long on releasing its Office suite for the iPad is anyone’s guess but Reuters reports that the company …
Xbox owners are deserting Microsoft consoles for the PlayStation 4
We already know that the PlayStation 4 has taken a strong lead in the early goings of the latest console generation, but where are those …
Microsoft makes Windows Phone free for some smartphone makers
Microsoft is tired of seeing its global mobile market share sit in the low single digits each quarter, and it looks like the software giant …
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One aren’t ‘doomed,’ despite sales figures
In the midst of the hysteria that has resulted from a near simultaneous launch of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, fans and the press …
5 ways the next Windows 8 update might finally appease Metro-hating desktop users
Listen up, disgruntled Windows desktop users: Microsoft hears your gripes and is working to address them with its soon-to-be-released Update 1 to Windows 8.1. U.K.-based …
Titanfall launch event attracts huge lines at SXSW
Microsoft hosted a huge launch party at SXSW on Monday night in order to celebrate the release of Titanfall, and it appears to have been …
Surface Power Cover finally arrives to fix your battery issues
Microsoft is finally ready to ship the promised Surface Power Covers, as the company is currently taking pre-orders on its website, ZDNet reports, having revealed …
The launch of ‘Titanfall’ will push the Xbox One to its limits
Titanfall is more than just a potential sales boost for the Xbox One, it’s also the first real test of the digital infrastructure that runs …
Insider: Microsoft can’t and won’t sell Xbox One without Kinect in the near future
It’s still way too early in this console generation to tell how things are going to turn out, but by all accounts both Microsoft and …
Insider claims Titanfall has already helped sell 1 million Xbox One consoles
Electronic Arts’ hotly anticipated game “Titanfall” hasn’t even been released yet, but one insider claims it has already helped Microsoft sell approximately 1 million additional …
Microsoft is getting ready to Scroogle Xbox owners
We’ve said in the past that Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign rings somewhat hollow to us because Microsoft has certainly not been above using its users’ data …
Is Windows 9 Microsoft’s secret weapon to get people to dump XP?
As we mentioned earlier this week, Microsoft has a problem because a huge chunk of Windows XP stragglers still aren’t upgrading to Windows 7 or …
New report suggests Ballmer screamed his way out of a job
By his own admission, outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is “big, bald and loud.” These are traits that have helped him impose his will at Microsoft …
Major March update for Xbox One begins rolling out
Gamers, start your engines. Just weeks after the console’s first major update was pushed out, Microsoft has announced that the Xbox One’s March update began …
Video: Here is Cortana, Microsoft’s answer to Siri, in action
The Windows Phone 8.1 leaks continue to roll out as the Microsoft Build Developer Conference inches closer. Just a day after the reveal of Cortana’s …
Ballmer owns up to blowing it with Windows Phone
By the time Windows Phone 8 made Microsoft’s mobile platform a real competitor in 2012, the iPhone had been on the market for five years …
Xbox One beats PS4 in game streaming quality
The launch of live game streaming on the Xbox One is still a week away, but Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb took to Twitch last night …
Windows XP diehards aren’t going quietly
Microsoft has a problem: It desperately wants any remaining Windows XP users to upgrade to a newer version of the operating system but a huge …
