Microsoft’s new Kinect-friendly, “Metro”-feeling Xbox Dashboard is coming to all Xbox 360 owners on Tuesday, December 6th. Read more »
New Xbox Dashboard Coming December 6th
Tag Archives: Bing
Xbox Live Is Getting Bing-ified
“Metro” is the codename of this Fall’s annual Xbox Live update, which among other things is going to make your dashboard look an awful lot like Bing mixed with Windows Phone 7. Here’s a breakdown of the major changes you can expect. Read more »
E3: Xbox Unveils Halo 4, Kinect Fable, Live TV
This morning in Los Angeles, Microsoft promised to show off “the future of gaming,” and their vision of the future clearly looks an awful lot like Kinect. Let’s go over the highlights — and loads of screens & vids… Xbox always has a lively show, keeping things moving fast from one game to the next, never spending too much time on any one thing. For my money, they typically put on the funnest, showiest, and overall best media event at E3. Sure, it’s Microsoft and they’re nerdy, but at least they have lots of money to throw around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t6XegJtlns Halo 4 was announced as the start of a new trilogy starring Read more »
Microsoft’s Other OS-tans
When Microsoft first released Windows 7 in Japan, they shocked the otaku community by including the first ever official OS-tan, Nanami Madobe. Since then, Nanami Madobe fanart has been popping up on the internet every once in a while, but did you know that Microsoft has since released six more OS-tans? On December 18, 2009 Microsoft began a month-long Bing promotion in Japan where users would be given a present for using the Bing search engine a certain number of times. That present turned out to be 5 more OS-tan themes that you can install on Windows 7. The new OS-tans (pictured below) from the left working clockwise are: Nanako, Read more »
Microsoft's internal ego trip with URL "shortener" binged.it
There have been a few pairs of rolled eyes online today as people discuss Microsoft’s (currently internal only) URL shortening service. It’s not surprising, following Google’s use of the goo.gl domain name, that Microsoft might use something based on its Bing search engine, but while Google keeps it nice, short and from Greenland, Microsoft has gone for the more popular Italian .it TLD and then stuck a longer name on the front. Binged.it Presumably as in “I just Binged it”. The thing is, although Microsoft has partnered with bit.ly (six characters), it has chosen to use a nine character name. Bitly and Google both use six, Facebook’s version fb.me is Read more »
Bing recommends… Google!
Ever since it’s launch Bing has been labelled ‘decision engine’ by Microsoft. And go figure what Bing’s recommendation is when you want to search the web… indeed, GOOGLE! Read more »
