Microsoft is warning people about a hoax that promises people free Xbox Live points if they call up Microsoft and wish the company a happy birthday—the company was founded on April 4, 1975. Of course there’s a much more common hoax involving Xbox Live. In this hoax, unscrupulous retailers in cahoots with a company with…
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AllThingsD highlights an interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in which Ballmer says, I don’t think anybody has done a product that is the product that I see customers wanting. You can go through the products from all those guys … and none of them has a product that you can really use. Not Apple.…
Gamasutra has the details on a class action lawsuit against Microsoft over its shady XBOX Live subscription billing practices, Graves explains that in his own particular case, he let his Xbox Live subscription expire by declining to update his credit card information; when he renewed his account several months later with a new credit card,…
Gamasutra cites statistics from Microsoft suggesting that sales on XBOX Live Arcade increased by as much as 300 percent following the release of the New XBOX Experience back in November. Hmm . . . so, in theory, if you replace a shitty looking, almost unusable interface with a pretty looking one that actually makes sense…
Personally, I’ve been using Windows XP on the numeours computers I have to use, and I don’t plan on ever using another Microsoft OS. Ubuntu’s Good Enough(TM) without all the bullshit like this that Microsoft is constantly pulling, A new court filing reveals disputes at Microsoft’s highest levels leading up to Windows Vista’s release — including CEO Steve…
I believe Om Malik was the first to point out that Microsoft has been awarded US Patent #7,415,666, “Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments.” That’s right folks, Microsoft was granted a patent for page up and page down functionality, A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially…