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Xbox 360: Extended Warranty Information

For those of you who have had trouble with their Xbox 360, you will know of the struggle of trying to get Microsoft to replace your console. For those of you who are currently receiving replacement consoles through the Microsoft extended warranty, there is some invaluable information you should know.

In the service contract, it states: Read more

Halo 3 and Vista helps boost Microsoft shares

Microsoft Corp has now lifted their full-year forecasts and have announced a 23 percent quarterly profit growth and has sent their shares up 11 percent, this is far more higher than many analysts had estimated and this growth I largely due to two things, the release of Read more

Microsoft vs. Google for Facebook: The software giant wins and pays $240 million for investment

Well the two giants went to battle for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, it was a straight fight Microsoft vs. Google and in the end it was the software giant who prevailed and paid $240 million in process. Also in the deal Microsoft have exclusive rights to sell ads on Read more

Vista Incompatibilities Problems: Has It Been Brought Out Too Early?

It has now been Nine months since Vista was released, but there are still tonnes of hardware and software products that are still not working with Microsoft’s operating system, this is even including Read more

Microsoft announce Xbox 360 Core out Xbox 360 Arcade in: What a surprise

For those of you who have been living on another planet you would know for a while now that Microsoft has been planning to launch the Xbox 360 Arcade, but they have been very slow with the Read more

Xbox 360 Outsells PS3 5 to 1: Which Is Your Favourite Console?

The fight still goes on with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 battling it out with the PlayStation 3.

As it stands for the sale figures Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has out sold the PlayStation 3 5:1 in September, showing a 50% increase from August sales, that’s an average of Read more

Halo 3 helps Microsoft Xbox 360 take lead in September NPD: Beating Nintendo Wii and DS

Although Halo 3 was released at the tail end of September, it still seems as if this great game has helped the Microsoft Xbox 360 take the lead in the September NPD. The Xbox 360 has made a jump of Read more

Apple’s iPod was the benchmark, is Halo 3 another bench mark?

We all knew before the iPod was launched how successful this MP3 come multimedia centre was going to be. The thing that made the Apple’s iPod the benchmark was the fact that it was an MP3 player and also the new generation models became video players as well as a Read more

Bungie To Become Independent Company: Microsoft Still Has Halo

After a week fraught with speculation Microsoft has finally confirmed Halo developer Bungie Studios is to become an independent company, although Microsoft will retain and “equity interest”.

Microsoft will retain a stake in Bungie and hold onto the Halo intellectual property and are set to Read more

Microsoft backports Windows Vista features on to new XP SP3 Beta

Many of us got excited when Microsoft launched their new operating system Windows Vista, but once we purchased our upgrade we were left disappointed so me like thousands of others went back to XP. I love my XP and thought that soon I will have to upgrade to that Read more

New Microsoft Xbox 360 Premium and Elite game console bundle expected end of October

After all those rumors that have been circulating over the net that Microsoft will be offering some new bundles for both the Xbox 360 Premium and Elite game console. Well it now seems as if we were all right as Read more

Microsoft Office Live Workspace goes online

Microsoft has now announced that their new service Microsoft Office Live Workspace has gone online, this is part of a new range of services from the software giant. This new service helps to weave both Read more

Xbox 360: Consoles Finally Get 65nm Chips

There has been months of speculation and rumours but finally, after a hardware revision, a couple of limited editions and even a new SKU, Microsoft is finally shipping ‘Falcon’-equipped Xbox 360s with 65nm CPU’s. Read more

Microsoft Corp will sell Windows XP operating system until end of June 2008

On Thursday Microsoft Corp has said that it will delay the scheduled transition to its newer Windows Vista software by 5 months, this means they will keep selling the Windows XP operating system until the end of June 2008.

Windows Vista has been with us since January 2007 and one year later on, January 30th 2008 we should of seen the end of Windows XP sales Read more

Microsoft’s Halo 3 $170 Million Record: beats Spider Man 3, Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows Films

We all new Microsoft’s Halo 3 will be big news and would beat Halo 2 sales figures, but who knew that it would net $170 million in sales in the U.S. in its first day and that figure sets a new record in entertainment history Read more

Damaged Halo 3 Discs to be replaced by Microsoft, xbox 360 gamers happy

Following the news the other day about Xbox 360 gamers reporting about getting Halo 3 games with the disc lose and in-turn having a scratched disc, we can now confirm that Microsoft are not offering a 3 year warranty as joked about.

Instead they are apparently offering to replace damaged discs of Halo 3 from the special limited-edition Read more

Facebook Worth £5 Billion In Just Three Years: Microsoft Want 5 Percent Stake

Unless you have been hiding under a rock lately, you would’ve heard about Facebook. The social networking site has been going from strength to strength recently and has seen it’s value go from nothing to £5 billion in just three years. Read more

Microsoft: “Sony will struggle” With PS3 Home, Has 360 Won?

Not so surprisingly, Microsoft has had yet another dig against Sony, who announced at the Tokyo Games Show (TKS) that their highly anticipated, interactive online service Home, has been delayed until Read more

Microsoft Loses courtroom appeal: now what for the computer software giant

It seems that Microsoft have lost their courtroom appeal at the European Commission, Microsoft was appealing for the massive £343m fine that they were given for Read more

Will Xbox 360 be big in Japan of which they are hoping?

There were some new ideas announced and it is quite intriguing, to try and get to know who is who and the best Japanese gaming development legends Takashi Sensui who is Microsoft’s general manager of the Home and Entertainment Division took to the stage during the Read more