Microsoft’s Windows 7 has had a grand time pulling in all manner of people looking to upgrade their operating system or already preloaded on new PCs and all of that market growth may just lead to an eco-friendlier planet, or at least a bit of savings on the old energy bill. It would seem the [...]
Read more Windows 7 leads to a greener home or office
by Rafael Hernandez on July 30, 2010
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You knew they had to do something special for the release of a new Halo game, didn’t you? Announced at Comic Con in San Diego, the $399 USD Halo Reach limited edition bundle features a 250GB Xbox 360 S, but in sliver instead of glossy black, and decorated with iconography from the Halo universe. The [...]
Read more Halo Reach Xbox 360 bundle announced, unboxed
by Pedro Hernandez on July 23, 2010
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Wondering which companies will be selling Windows Phone 7 handsets this fall? Wonder no more! According to Pocket Lint, Microsoft revealed that Asus, Dell, HTC, LG, and Samsung will all be producing Windows Phone 7 smartphones this fall. Dell was heavily rumored to be jumping on board after showing a knack for teasing jaw-droppingly gorgeous [...]
Read more Windows Phone 7 launch manufacturers revealed
by Pedro Hernandez on July 22, 2010
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Microsoft today set the official price of its Xbox 360 Kinect motion controller to $149.99 (USD) when it ships on November 4, 2010. The price hardly comes as a shock in light of Walmart’s Kinect bundle offer. However, Microsoft did have one surprise in store: the Xbox 360 Kinect Console Bundle. Also scheduled to ship [...]
Read more Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect bundle priced at $299
by Pedro Hernandez on July 20, 2010
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 removed quite a few of the applications people have come to rely on and bundled it under the company’s Windows Live Essentials banner in order to better promote, and update, their home-user centric programs. The company is planning to improve and extend their products with an emphasis on easily publishing your photos [...]
Read more Windows Live Essentials to get some user friendly updates
by Rafael Hernandez on June 3, 2010
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The benefits of web-based email has been covered quite a bit over the years, and as a spam catch-all it has worked marvelously. It would seem that Microsoft is working on making their service a bit more workable for the busy folks out there. Hotmail is in for some updates which should make it even [...]
Read more Microsoft Prepping Hotmail Updates for busy people
by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2010
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 added a whole host of new technologies which are designed to modernize the Windows operating system lineup which also included some Virtualization technology that would help older XP based software run smoothly on the new OS. Unfortunately at launch their “XP Mode” required hardware virtualization support in order to run. No longer. [...]
Read more Windows 7 XP Mode no longer requires Virtualization hardware extensions
by Rafael Hernandez on March 22, 2010
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Businesses dare not deploy a whole new operating system until they know the bulk of their hardware and software will run, in a stable fashion, on the fancy newly update OS…thus the wait until at least Service Pack 1 rolls around. Microsoft has deemed that line of thinking silly so they’ll be rolling out a [...]
Read more Windows 7 SP1 Detailed…sort of
by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2010
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If there’s one thing that people want it’s access to the things that are important to them all in a central location which Microsoft has taken to heart with their upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system. It’ll be a major shift for the company as they’ve done away with their old way of doing things [...]
Read more Windows Phone 7 brings everything together
by Rafael Hernandez on February 15, 2010
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Being a popular new operating system means that there are those that would circumvent protections in the OS so as to make it seem legitimate. There are those that willingly take that risk in order to save themselves some cash, then there are those that are suckered into a new system preloaded with a counterfeit [...]
Read more Windows 7 Reworking Its Copy Protection
by Rafael Hernandez on February 11, 2010
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