NPD Group reported Thursday that new consoles from Sony and Microsoft powered a winning holiday season for the videogame industry in the United States. “The newest consoles from Microsoft and Sony are off to a tremendous start,” said NPD analyst Liam…
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Microsoft may have just put the finishing touches off of their last significant upgrade to the desktop Windows platform, Windows 8.1, but they’re not stopping there – according to long time Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Paul Thurrott, who has…
As CES 2014 draws to a close, there seems to be a growing feeling among tech sites that Windows is in some trouble. The most direct discussion of Windows’ impending demise can be found over on the Verge, with the smartly titled “Closing Windows”…
Though we’re in the midst of CES 2014, with virtual reality headsets and affordable 4K monitors on display, there’s an expected quietness coming from Microsoft. As the company has pointed out in the past, they don’t need CES to make announcements…
Sony announced today during their CES 2014 keynote that over 4.2 million PlayStation 4 game consoles have been sold since the console’s November 2013 launch. That figure puts it well over Microsoft’s announcement yesterday of 3 million Xbox One…
Light, pocketable tablet ideal for mobile workforces and replacing ageing business PDA’s BRACKNELL, UK, 7TH JANUARY 2014 Panasonic today launched…
Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest home and mobile operating system for desktops, laptops and tablets, has been out for nearly two years. And unlike Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer, web company Mozilla has still yet to release its native FireFox browser…
This past fall, Microsoft took a look at its foundering Surface tablet fortunes and decided to double down with a follow-up, the aptly named Surface 2 line of devices. While the company hasn’t released any information about the Surface 2’s sales…
Microsoft’s flagship OS, Windows 8.1, is slowly and steadily climbing upward in terms of total usage, as revealed by the most recent report from NetMarketShare detailing December’s OS market share numbers. The bad news for Microsoft is that 8.1…
Since the original Xbox first landed in living rooms in 2001, the Xbox line of game consoles have been Microsoft’s shining stars; examples of how good the company when it’s on its game. It’s tough to look through Microsoft’s product catalog…
Microsoft’s Games With Gold promotion, which gives away two Xbox 360 games a month to Xbox Live subscribers, has been widely criticized for its lack of new titles. There’s no arguing that titles like Halo 3, Gears of War and Assassin’s Creed…
Microsoft has another big problem on its hands: Chromebooks. You know, those inexpensive laptops manufactured by the likes of Samsung, Acer, and others that run Chrome OS instead of Windows? They are selling like crazy. You may remember how we…
To me, a version of Windows just doesn’t seem… complete until there’s the full suite of everyone’s favorite classic games available for the platform. That’s why it’s so exciting that Microsoft has just released that everyone’s favorite…
Every few weeks, we seem to hear a little something new about Microsoft’s Threshold initiative, a plan the company is looking to roll out in order to unify its various Windows platforms into a more singular experience across its many devices. And…
Has anyone ever considered that the problem with Microsoft is that the company still too successful? Before you call me crazy, look at the company’s recent Q1 FY2014 earnings report. The top line numbers all look very good and at the time the…
Thanks for checking in for this edition of the Weekend Wrap-up, where we get you all caught up on the biggest tech stories from the past week. We’ve got a lot of big ones, so let’s dive in. Spotify Offers Free, Ad-Supported Mobile Access In the…
All the major players in video games are getting some good news heading into the weekend. The latest numbers released by the NPD Group suggest that the two newest consoles on the market, Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One, sold extremely…
The news of Microsoft looking to unify the disparate Windows experiences in the future—along with reports of the “Threshold” initiative to do just that—has lots of folks speculating on what the future of Windows might look like. The fact that…
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Alan Mulally, the current CEO of Ford Motor Company, who was up for consideration to take over the position of Microsoft’s new CEO, has been taken out of contention for Steve Ballmer’s soon-to-be-old job. According to a Bloomberg report, the car…