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Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!
Introduction When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit). After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things: Windows 7 is a “finished” Vista. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Beta Released
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Microsoft Windows 7’s Beta Customer Preview launched today. Based on the below message posted on the download page it looks like it is pretty popular. “Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal — we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the [...]
Continue reading...Z2K9: 30GB Zunes Everywhere Locking Up for the New Year
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
It seems that Microsoft’s “iPod Killer” 30GB Zune players are all failing in unison as the New Year approaches across the globe for some reason. On startup, as the device boots, it seems to hang at the last bit of the boot process — the worst part is that the devices all seem to have [...]
Continue reading...A Few End of Year Xbox Live Arcade Stats
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Microsoft decided to wrap up the year by releasing some stats for us about Xbox Live Arcade. Seems like Xbox Live Arcade had a good year and is continuing to grow. Here is the run down: Over 100 million achievements have been unlocked on XBLA That is over 1.25 billion Gamerscore points. Braid is highest rated XBLA game [...]
Continue reading...Friendship is Free Program Announced for Xbox Live
Friday, December 5, 2008
Someone at Microsoft must really be feeling the holiday spirit because they are continuing to announce more promotional programs. Earlier this week they announced the Deal of the Week Program that is running through December. Today they announced the ‘Friendship is Free’ program. This new program lets Xbox Live Silver Members play 8 Xbox Live [...]
Continue reading...Black Friday Sales on the Xbox Live Marketplace
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Microsoft’s Major Nelson just posted to his blog giving everyone a heads up that some of the Xbox Live Marketplace content will be on sale this coming Friday, November 28th. The items will be on sale starting Friday morning through Sunday evening. These sales are only available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members in the US. Here [...]
Continue reading...How To Get Crazy Hair Colors For Your Avatar on the New Xbox Experience
Sunday, November 23, 2008
With the New Xbox Experience and its Mii like Avatars releasing this week a lot of people are spending countless hours tweaking their Avatars to get them just how they like them. Personally, I wish their were more options for clothing to wear, but Microsoft has said more will be coming soon. It is only [...]
Continue reading...XNA Community Games Off to a Huge Start
Saturday, November 22, 2008
On Wednesday this week, November 19th, XNA Community Games launched on the Xbox 360 with the new dashboard updated – The New Xbox Experience. Just three days after launch there are already 45 games available in Xbox Live’s XNA Community Games (ranging in price from $2.50 to $10), and that number continues to grow daily. Sure, [...]
Continue reading...Controlling the Future of Gaming and Entertainment Starts with Game Consoles
Thursday, November 20, 2008
A study by JPR found the PC gaming market to be 2.6x larger than console gaming market… that includes every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii together (totally somewhere around 74.7 million units worldwide) with an estimated 196 million “gaming machine” class of PC shipped world wide. Yet, big companies and analysts have been claiming that [...]
Continue reading...Why Halo 3’s Loads Slower With The New Xbox Experience
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Microsoft’s newest update to the Xbox 360, the New Xbox Experience, released today. As we reported last week one of the cool new features is that games can be saved to the hard drive. For most games this allows them to load faster and in some cases helps alleviate graphical glitches like “pop in.” The exception [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Will Never Understand Usability – Vista Device Driver Security Example
Monday, November 17, 2008
We took our first look at Microsoft’s inbility to create something genuinely useful and a minature review of Vista when we evaluated Windows Vista Backup at the beginning of the year. The premise of that article being that by evaluating a single program, and all the usability/functionality flaws it had, you got an impression of [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Experience Will Drive 1100% Marked-Up Xbox HDD Sales
Saturday, November 1, 2008
With the giant Fall update of the Xbox Live Dashboard (nicknamed ‘Xbox Live Experience‘ at this point) looming, some folks with early access are starting to look at the new features coming in that update. To recap the hotness that is the “Xbox Live Experience” update, it’s more or less every major feature you’ve ever wanted [...]
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
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