First Microsoft wanted Yahoo, but Yahoo’s board didn’t want Microsoft. After the rejection, Yahoo expressed interested in a Google alliance, but sources close to Google say that the company isn’t interested in being partners with Yahoo anymore. Google just wants Microsoft and Yahoo to leave it and each other alone.
Microsoft is trying to force […]
Mozilla Foundation just launched Firefox 3 Beta 2, the second beta candidate of the third iteration of its popular web browser. It will likely release the final version of Firefox 3 within a month.
On the other side of the field stands browser industry leader Microsoft, whose current offering is Internet Explorer 7, […]
Thanks to Black Friday and the holiday buying season, the video games industry experienced blistering sales during November.
Nintendo walked away as the big dog, selling a record number of hardware units. The Nintendo DS handheld sold an astonishing 1.53 million units – 653,000 of them during Black Friday week. The Wii likely sold out its […]
Unit sales and price point seem to have a direct correlation in this generation’s console race. After cutting the price of its 80GB PlayStation 3 to $499 and introducing a 40GB model at $399 in November, Sony experienced a significant uptick in sales of its high-tech hardware. Nintendo’s $249 Wii, which has been the cheapest […]
On November 15, Microsoft’s Xbox Live service will have been in operation for five years, now with “more than eight million members now actively engaged in the largest social entertainment network on TV.”
To celebrate the anniversary, Microsoft is giving all Xbox Live users the opportunity to download the XBLA game Carcassone free of charge between […]
When it comes to computer processors, the advantages of a die-shrink are undeniable. For chip makers – and overclockers – a processor manufactured at a smaller process can open up more headroom for faster clock speeds, or decrease power consumption and cooling requirements. A die-shrink is a much-lauded happening in the computer world. For consoles, […]
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it plans to keep selling its Windows XP operating system until the end of June 2008, delaying a scheduled transition to its newer Windows Vista software by five months. Microsoft said it decided to extend XP sales in response to feedback from computer manufacturers who said there […]
Microsoft suffered a decisive antitrust defeat on Monday when a European Union court upheld a landmark ruling that the world’s largest software maker had abused its dominant market position to crush rivals. The second-highest EU court dismissed the company’s appeal on all key points against the 2004 European Commission ruling and upheld a record 497 […]
It’s official: Halo 3 is done. Two weeks after developer Bungie Studios announced that “99.9 percent” of work on the game was complete, publisher Microsoft Game Studios announced today that the eagerly awaited sci-fi shooter has gone gold. Rated M for Mature, the Xbox 360 exclusive is available in three versions: the $59.99 regular edition, […]
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday released the two Windows Vista updates that had leaked to the Internet at the end of July, but won’t say when it will begin pushing them to users via Windows Update. Pegged as performance and reliability packs, the pair install a long list of non-security bug fixes, among them speed improvements to […]