New Xbox Revealed as Xbox One

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After months of speculation, Microsoft has now officially announced the new Xbox. Following a brief introductory video, Don Mattrick, President of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft took the stage to discuss the history of Xbox as a brand, as well …

By Chris Poirier in Featured News
May 21st, 2013 at 10:58 am

Xbox: revealing

Today is the big day for Xbox news, as Microsoft has gathered members of the press and others together on the Microsoft campus, all under a big ass tent (it’s been raining all night here in Seattle, they’re gonna need …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 21st, 2013 at 8:55 am

Live Chat coming to Bing?

Chat has been a hot topic this week, what with the addition of Google contacts into Outlook.com and the backlash it caused coming from Google, new abilities to chat from within SkyDrive on Outlook.com, the announcements of Google Hangouts, and …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 17th, 2013 at 11:57 pm

Xbox gets a new official blog: The Wire

Just in time for next week’s Xbox Reveal event, where Microsoft will for the first time unveil its next generation Xbox (Xboxes?), a new blog, Xbox Wire, debuted today:

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Xbox’s Director of Xbox Live programming, Larry Hyrb, or as …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 17th, 2013 at 9:19 am

Microsoft and Google: is this war?

google-io-logoSome shots were fired back and forth today between Microsoft and Google in a series of exchanges both from the stage at Google I/O, and behind the scenes with some well placed leaks that come perilously close to crossing the …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
May 15th, 2013 at 11:56 pm

The next Windows Phone update (GDR2), shipping with the Lumia 925, is coming to more devices this summer

Lumia625_group_465This morning (very early this morning, if you’re on the US west coast!) Nokia officially announced the Lumia 925, a lighter aluminum body version of the Lumia 920 that’s coming to T-Mobile here in the US, Vodaphone in Europe, …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
May 14th, 2013 at 11:31 am

Chat with your Google friends still “stuck on Gmail” from Outlook.com

google-logoIn a blog post on the Outlook.com blog today, Microsoft has announced that it’s rolling out Google chat integration, allowing you to chat with your Google friends from Outlook.com.  The feature works across your Outlook.com inbox, as well as …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 14th, 2013 at 6:46 am

Nokia officially announces the Lumia 925

Lumia625-pic2-465At a press event in London today, Nokia’s Jo Harlow showed off the new Nokia 925, a slimmer, aluminum body Lumia device featuring a snap on wireless charging cover, and including Hipstamatic, a previously iPhone only photo sharing app that …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
May 14th, 2013 at 2:59 am

Windows Essentials 2012 updated

windows essentialsSometime today Microsoft has updated Windows Essentials 2012, the suite formerly known as Windows Live Essentials, increasing the build number from 16.4.3505.0912 to 16.4.3508.0205.  All of the suite products appear to have been updated (although we’ve given up on …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 13th, 2013 at 6:25 pm

SkyDrive improves photos experience, and a better Bing autosuggest

A couple of tweaks to announce for Microsoft products today, for SkyDrive and Bing.  First up is news of an improved SkyDrive photos experience, including an “all photos view”, better upload performance, and new layout thumbnails.  A post on the

By Kip Kniskern in Bing News
May 13th, 2013 at 10:42 am