Archive for the ‘MICROSOFT’ Category

Xbox 360 Explodes Fueled by the Halo Effect

Friday, October 19th, 2007

The release of what Microsoft referred to as a global entertainment phenomenon has managed to explode sales of its Xbox 360 consoles. The combined market performances of Halo 3 and Nintendo's Wii console have contributed to a 75% jump in sales of video gaming hardware and software in the U.S. ...

Introducing Listas

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Listas is a new project from Microsoft Live Labs. The Redmond company is hard at work developing a wide range of prototype concepts and incubation technologies under the Live Labs umbrella, including: Deepfish, Photosynth and Seadragon. In this context, Listas is but the latest addition to the collection of Microsoft ...

Microsoft Denies Changing Windows Vista Settings without Users’ Consent

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Microsoft denied that it is messing around with the settings of the Windows Vista operating systems without the users' consent. The Redmond company has set up a complex updating infrastructure designed to keep copies of the Windows platform up to date on the latest functionality patches, as well as serve ...

Windows XP SP3 Gets a Taste of Windows Vista

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Microsoft evolved the beta for the third and final service pack for Windows XP from build 3180 to 3205, and opened access to the Preview version of the refresh to all Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Beta testers. Still, while the Redmond company initially stated that ...

Microsoft Is Not Even in Third Place in the Search Race

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Microsoft is the undisputed underdog of the search market, and the now traditional occupant of the third position in the constant race against direct rivals Google and Yahoo. But the fact of the matter is that the combined results of MSN and Live Search do not manage to ensure that ...

Linux Is Copying Windows Vista

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Forget about Windows Vista! Introducing Vixta, an open source, Linux-based, copy of Vista. Generally speaking, Linux, open source, Microsoft and Windows are by no means aligned concepts. In fact, with the exception of the Linux and Windows technical interoperability efforts derived from the Microsoft and Novell agreement focused on heterogeneous ...