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Mark your calendars you Star Wars gaming fans and Xbox Jedi wannabes as we now have the date that we will finally be able to get our hands on the much touted Kinect Star Wars.
April 3, 2012.
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Microsoft Flight, the company's casual, free-to-play approach to the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, has finally been given a release date.
Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Flight will be made available later this month on February 29. The core ...
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If having YouTube and the other recently-released video content apps isn't quite enough to satisfy all of your video streaming desires, Microsoft has added two more apps, Crackle and CinemaNow, to Xbox Live.
Crackle, for the unitiated, is ...
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This news should be causing more than a few smiles in Redmond as the news that the Xbox 360 beat out Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3 when it comes to worldwide sales for the first time ...
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Back near the end of the summer of last year both Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab, a security software company, worked together to bring down one of the reported biggest spam botnets that was responsible for polluting machines ...
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Microsoft is the latest to join in the debate about Google and their recent changes to their privacy policy. Recently, Google announced they will be making changes to their privacy policy and consolidating all of the privacy ...
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It seems this is the month of shutting down file sharing sites. Microsoft and Adobe have filed to take down ex.ua, a file sharing service in the Ukraine. The site has been shut down after a six ...
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I know that the Tux Brigade and open source diehards like to paint Microsoft as some great big bad monopolistic company that is out to destroy everything Linux and turn open source into a bad word; and ...
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When Microsoft first announced that they would be making a Developer Preview of Windows 8 available for people to play with we could be assured that there would be a lot of things that people were going ...
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The Xbox 720 is expected to be out next year in 2013 and new details emerge as to what we can see from the next generation console from Microsoft.
A new rumor has emerged that says the software giant ...
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Asus, maker of computer hardware, laptops, and even PC's, is rumored to be working on Kinect ready laptops. Microsoft announced Kinect for Windows a while back which brings some cool motion controlled technology to computers and laptops.
The ...
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Marriage Equality has gotten a big boost in Washington State. In addition to Group Health, Nike and Microsoft now Starbucks has added its name to a list of corporate powerhouses that support same sex marriage.
The Seattle Times has ...
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There was a whole lot of chatter regarding the next Xbox late last year, with multiple rumors popping up from a variety of sources, most of which indicated Microsoft is preparing to make the big reveal at ...
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Capcom confirmed awhile back that the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita versions of Street Fighter X Tekken would have at least two characters, and the latest trailers suggest there could even be more still. Surely, then, the ...
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Following up on their reveal earlier this month, Microsoft has released details on its 2012 XBLA House Party promotion, including release dates and prices for all four titles.
Major Nelson posted the House Party details over on his ...
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4J Studios, the developer tasked with porting Mojang's Minecraft to the Xbox 360 by way of Xbox Live Arcade, says that the team is working closely with Microsoft to possibly have regular updates to Minecraft on the ...
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You may recall that back in October of 2010, Doom mysteriously vanished from Xbox Live Arcade. Well, mysterious at first--ZeniMax later confirmed that the reason behind the disappearance had to do with "expiring rights", but that it ...
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We all know that Windows 8 is coming and with it will be a flood of Windows 8 tablets but as with all things Windows there is the concern that OEMs will follow the same path of ...
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Arfa Karim became the youngest person in the world to be awarded the "Microsoft Certified Professional" title seven years ago when at just nine years old she mastered the company's programs. Now at 16-years-old we're sad to report ...
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In a partnership with Samsung, Microsoft's latest Surface gadget, 2.0, is now available for pre-order and will be shipping this month. What is Microsoft Surface? Introduced years ago (and in a much more bulky package might I ...
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Windows Phone still lags behind Android, iOS, and RIM, but this year, Nokia plans to change that. One such way is the Lumia 710 which is available for free at Walmart in black and white on a ...
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Computer prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa, who was the World's youngest Microsoft certified professional, died at the age of 16 in a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. Randhawa was brought to the hospital a few weeks ago after she ...
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