After months of planning and waiting, Microsoft has finally announced the closing date for its deal to acquire the devices and services division of its biggest smartphone partner, Nokia. According to a post on the Official Microsoft Blog, the deal will…
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It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s handset division will soon be complete, according to a post on Neowin today. The news comes by way of a letter sent to Nokia customers about the acquisition being finalized,…
A couple days ago, Sony announced that the PlayStation 4 had sold 7 million units in over 72 territories worldwide since its launch last November. Yesterday, Microsoft made an announcement of its own, reporting that “more than 5 million Xbox One consoles…
Microsoft said it has sold more than five million XBox One consoles since they were launched in November. The news came a day after video game competitor Sony said it had sold more than seven million PlayStation 4 consoles since mid-November. Sony’s…
There’s an interesting relationship between Apple and Google. The two companies need each other; Apple needs to provide its users with access to Google’s great, in-demand services, and Google needs those users on its services since it clearly can…
Users of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 may have noticed a rather large OS update yesterday—that’s Windows 8.1 Update 1, if you were wondering. The update brought a whole bunch of new bits and pieces to the table to make the experience of actually using…
The current console war between Microsoft and Sony is barely half a year old, but conventional wisdom says that the PlayStation 4 is winning over the Xbox One pretty handily so far. But Microsoft seems determined to close the gap. During the company…
As you probably know by now, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP—a version of its operating system that’s been around since 2001, making it a twelve-year-old OS—on April 8. That’s next week. The company’s been making a big push to get…
Last week saw the launch of Office for iPad, a suite of long-awaited productivity apps that offer faithful recreations of the more robust versions of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint on Apple’s tablet. All three apps are free to download, and give users…
Despite the fact that today is April 1, to the best of my knowledge, this is not a joke. A post on ZDNet today reports that at this week’s Build conference in San Francisco, Microsoft may give us some details regarding the next iteration of its flagship…
The Microsoft executive shakeup continues today as the company has officially appointed Phil Spencer as the Head of Xbox, picking up where former Xbox Leader Don Mattrick left off. Don Mattrick notably left the position to become CEO of Zynga not too…
With April 1 fast approaching, Microsoft’s Major Nelson has revealed the next two games in the “Games with Gold” program: Hitman: Absolution and Deadlight. The two games stay true to the recent Microsoft formula: an Xbox 360 title paired with…
It’s been a little while since we’ve heard anything in the way of an official update regarding Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s handset business, but today both parties are finally providing a long awaited update. According to a post on “…
For the past few months, Xbox gamers who are used to premium chat headsets have been out of luck. Microsoft went with proprietary technology for the Xbox One, and headsets that worked with the Xbox 360, such as those from Turtle Beach and Tritton, weren…
Today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Sony lifted the curtain on a new product that’s been rumored for a while now: a virtual reality headset codenamed Project Morpheus made for use with the PlayStation 4 console. It’d be easy to point…
One glaring omission from the Microsoft Surface line has always been the lack of a model with mobile connectivity capabilities. While Apple’s iPad and many other competitors officer versions with 3G or LTE networking for a small premium, Microsoft…
As we’ve covered previously, Microsoft plans to roll out a software update for the Xbox One in early March that’ll add some new goodies; for instance, better Xbox Live friend list functionality. I was fortunate enough to get preview access to the…
“I’m thinking about letting my Xbox Live subscription expire,” a friend messaged me today. “You’re a fool,” I replied. And then he explained his reasoning. There hasn’t been anything all that impressive in the multiplayer department since…
In the months leading to the Xbox One’s launch, one of the console’s most talked-up features was its Twitch integration. Unfortunately, the Twitch app at launch was lacking; it only allowed gamers to watch video from players on other platforms (…
If you’ve been waiting for the Titanfall release to buy an Xbox One console, today is your lucky day. Microsoft just put up a pre-order page for a brand new Xbox One bundle that includes a free Titanfall digital download code. It’s the first time…