Microsoft Black Friday Deals: Discounts On Xbox 360, Windows PCs, Kinect, Free Windows Phones & More
We're only a few short hours away before the entire United States is gripped by the excitement and downright fear of Black Friday.
Compared with years passed, it's been a pretty good PR year for Redmond-based Microsoft. The Windows 8 Developer Preview was released to the public a lot earlier than previous iterations, and it seems potential consumers have been impressed by the dramatically faster booting times allied to the sleek Metro-tiled interface.
This week, two pictures surfaced on the web with two separate people that probably should not have been using a Mac, or at least not during picture time. Competitors using each other's products is nothing new and being caught on camera using them is usually never a PR nightmare anyway. Still, it doesn't mean it's not funny!
Microsoft has had a pretty successful year selling their popular Xbox 360. In the US, for example, the Xbox system has been the top selling video game console for all of 2011. Adding the Kinect device last year only boosted sells; the device went on to break a Guinness World Record, winning the title for the fastest selling consumer electronic device. Wii Who?
With the Symbian OS having been swiftly eclipsed in the battle of the mobile operating systems, Finnish outfit Nokia is trying to reinvent itself via Microsoft's Windows Phone interface.
The 2.0 iteration of Microsoft's Surface technology, which looks a lot like a table-cum-tablet, is now available to preorder via Samsung's website.
That's right, folks. It's been on the cards, and now Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the most eagerly-awaited release since, well, Blacks Ops, has shattered the unprecedented sales numbers of its predecessor, having sold 6-and-a-half million units in its first 24 hours - and that's just in the US and UK.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia's brand new Windows Phone 7 smartphone. In fact, it's the Finnish firm's first handset to be packing Microsoft's mobile operating system, and to say there is a lot riding on it is the understatement of the century.
With many gamers poised to queue to the early hours tonight in order to grab the latest iteration of Call of Duty, it's only right that we report on a little console rumor roundup - focusing specifically on the next-gen Xbox.
You're a Windows 7 user, right? You like that nice user interface, complete with all that blue glass and with all those, well, windows. More importantly, you like it because it isn't Vista, mainly. Lets take that liking to a whole new level shall we?
