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| TGS 08: Microsoft May Not Stick to Spring/Fall 360 Updates (1up.com) |
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:34:07 GMT |
| The New Xbox Experience (which you can read all about right here ) is bringing the most substantial changes to the Xbox 360's dashboard yet seen -- which is a good thing, because it may be the last major update we see for a while. At the Tokyo Game Show earlier this week (via Kotaku ), Xbox Live corporate vice president John Schappert said Microsoft may move away from the strict ... more... |
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| Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Vista's 'Unqualified Success' (E-Commerce Times) |
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:12:31 GMT |
| As chief executive of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer heads a company that's not just a PC software giant but also a growing presence in the broader consumer electronics industry. In less than 10 years, Microsoft has become a major player in video games, mobile phones, set-top boxes and Internet search and advertising. However, the company is nowhere near as dominant in consumer electronics as it is in ... more... |
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| Hands-On With Microsoft's Touchless SDK (Slashdot) |
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:17:48 GMT |
| snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister takes Microsoft's recently released Touchless SDK for a test spin, controlling his Asus Eee PC 901 with a Roma tomato. The Touchless SDK is a set of .Net components that can be used to simulate the gestural interfaces of devices like the iPhone in thin air — using an ordinary USB Webcam. Although McAllister was able to draw, scroll, and play a ... more... |
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| Microsoft elaborates on Oslo (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) |
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering code names and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform. more... |
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| Microsoft sues DHL over Xbox train derailment (Engadget) |
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:36:43 GMT |
| Filed under: Gaming , Transportation You know who Microsoft hates? No, not Apple. It really hates DHL. Apparently, the delivery service has hit the folks in Redmond where it hurts: in the Xbox. It seems that 21,600 consoles were totally messed over by "impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage" when one of the company's freight trains derailed en route to Long Beach, California. ... more... |
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