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Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

CliffyB on Gears of War 2 for PC

Bleszinki told the website that there are no plans for a PC version. “Here’s the problem right now,” he said, “the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so [...]

The Honeymoon is Over

Remember when the Xbox 360 first came out? Remember how excited you were about the cool new interface? It looked so next-generation with all those panels whizzing around. I believe there were even a few people who said, “I can’t believe this is a Microsoft product it’s soo good”.
Two years (and several replacements) later, the [...]

The MicroHoo! Ballyhoo

An interesting thing happened last Friday. It seems Microsoft is making a strong bid for Yahoo! While much is being made about how this new conglomeration of hugeness will present a worthy opponent to Google, what I’m more concerned about is how this will affect users of Yahoo’s services.
Let’s paint a hypothetical picture, 5 years [...]

Xbox DEAD OR ALIVE

No, no, it’s still kinda broken…
Worse, I tried watching The Bourne Ultimatum on the HD-DVD player and it crapped-out halfway through the movie. There was an available update for the HD-DVD player which I didn’t dare apply because of all the wonkiness. After some cursing and wringing of the remote, I pulled the disc and [...]

Xbox it’s aLIVE!

Well, sort of. We were still having some issues with it last night, but prod and I were able to sign in (and stay signed in) until the wee small hours playing Halo. I made it to level 30 in Team Doubles!
So, thanks Major Nelson and the hard-working team(s) at Microsoft’s super-sekrit Xbox LIVE Server [...]

Xbox DEAD

Got back from the East last night after a harrowing drive through wintery conditions to settle into my couch for some much-needed Xboxing with my homeys. Prod and I managed to play a couple games of Virtua Fighter 5 before getting unceremoniously dropped from Xbox Live. At first I figured it was local network problems [...]

Xbox 360 Replacement + AAC iPod Support = @#%^&!!

The past few nights, I’ve been trying to hook up my iPod to my Xbox to get some LCD Soundsystem out of my speakers while playing the new 3D Ultra Miniputt on the Xbox Live Arcade. This is usually a pretty trivial thing. The past few nights however, I’ve been plagued by the inability to [...]

MWSF2007 addendum

No Roz Ho.
Office 2008 revealed!

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