The NPD group recently released information leading researchers to believe that the gaming market is shrinking. With sales in 2010 being announced at $18.58 billion, down from $19.66 billion in 2009, which was a decrease from $21.4 billion in 2008. When divided up, this is a 6% decrease in software sales and 13% drop in [...]
Representatives of Microsoft have been making fun of Google’s announced decision to take H.264 video codec support from their Internet browser interface, Google Chrome. Microsoft is criticizing Google for trying to force the industry to move in one direction when it has already decided to move in a contrary direction. Tim Sneath, who writes a [...]
Microsoft made an announcement today informing that they have asked US officials to stop Apple from putting the phrase ‘App Store’ under trademark. Apple made an application in 2008 for trademark rights to the phrase. The BBC news reported that Apple were requesting the rejection of the application from the US Patent and Trademark Office [...]
Kinect, currently for the Xbox 360 platform, will eventually be moved by its owner, Microsoft, to the Windows PC environment, as said by CEO Steve Ballmer. The Xbox version was launched in November and sold over 2.5 million in the 1st month on the market. The system is different from Nintendo Wii in that the [...]
Microsoft announced that their Kinect motion sensor has sold 8 million devices during its first 2 months on the market. The announcement was mad at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. The product was launched by Microsoft at the beginning of November. It is a controller free gaming platform, which lets [...]
The Consumer Electronics Show is set to open today and the buzz is all about Microsoft. The Internet giant has everyone’s attention at the world’s largest expo of electronic equipment because of expectations that they are going to announce a new television that can access the Internet running on its own version of Windows. This [...]
Although the Windows Phone 7 is still well short of matching Apple’s 300,000 apps, Microsoft proudly announced that their product has reached the 5,000 app mark. The Windows Phone 7 now matched the Palm webOS for amount of applications that have been written for it. Microsoft has achieved this goal in only 2 months, which [...]
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, is set unveils new Microsoft tablet software during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the upcoming week. Critics doubt that Microsoft will be able to reduce Apples’ significant lead in the tablet market. The CES takes off on January 6th in Las Vegas. Microsoft is expected to preview a Windows [...]
Eyes are on Microsoft for the January Consumer Electronics Show. It seems that there are more than just a few rumors flying around about the software giant. First and foremost, Microsoft is going to debut a version of Windows that is compatible with ARM’s chip designs. This means that they will be able to bring [...]
On Wednesday, December 15 Oracle joined the race to dominate cloud technology. Oracle’s new product, called Oracle Cloud Office is a business suite intended to compete against Microsoft and Google’s cloud products. It is an internet-based productivity suite, and includes spreadsheets, database, word processing, and drawing facilities. The cloud technology was acquired by Oracle after [...]
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