Microsoft’s new Kinect-friendly, “Metro”-feeling Xbox Dashboard is coming to all Xbox 360 owners on Tuesday, December 6th.
Xbox Live Is Getting Bing-ified
Posted on September 10, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
“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.
E3: Xbox Unveils Halo 4, Kinect Fable, Live TV
Posted on June 6, 2011 Written by 1 Comment
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 [...]
Microsoft’s Other OS-tans
Posted on November 1, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
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's internal ego trip with URL "shortener" binged.it
Posted on January 18, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Bing recommends… Google!
Posted on August 18, 2009 Written by 3 Comments
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!