Remember when we said that Halo: Reach would be a sure shot blockbuster? As it turned out, we, among a gazillion others, were spot on. According to Microsoft, Halo: Reach has pulled in a whopping $200,000,000 ($200M) within first 24 hours of releasing.
Announced just now over on Windows Phone Developer Blog, the development tools for Windows Phone 7 are now final after the OS itself going gold a couple of weeks ago. OEMs and mobile operators are going through the final stages of testing their handsets and now devs can finally finalize their apps and games.
In a few hours from now, Microsoft will officially unveil Internet Explorer 9 Beta to the world. Folks at Fast Company have already got their hands on Microsoft’s latest attempt to reinvent the browser. If the screenshots posted below are anything to go by, boy or boy this looks awesome!
Halo fanboys rejoice! The latest Halo game - which is also going to be Bungie’s last coz Microsoft Game Studios will take over franchise from now - has released today exclusively for the Xbox 360!
This is probably the most epic event we’ve seen so far by Microsoft ! To celebrate the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) milestone of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft today arranged a special event to mark the funeral of both Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry. The event took place outside Microsoft’s Redmond campus last week, with employees dressed up in weird dresses, with the hearses of iPhone and BlackBerry.
Microsoft has just announced the pricing scheme of the Xbox 360 Slim + Kinect bundle. It costs an appropriate-but-still-slightly-expensive $399 in the United States and £300 in the UK.
Microsoft today has announced that Windows Phone 7 code has been locked down, and it is ready to go onto consumer handsets this fall. In short it has reached its RTM (Release to Manufacturing) stage. All quirks have been washed out, new features have been added, and all that’s left right now is for manufacturers to finalize and release the first of devices which will run Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen has sued 11 major companies: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Yahoo!, Netflix, Staples, Office Depot, OfficeMax and YouTube, claiming that they have violated four different patent rights which his company Interval Licensing LLC owns.
Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse has been finally been unveiled to the world. It is one sexy looking mouse by Microsoft with a design very similar to the last-generation Arc Mouse by Microsoft, except that this one has touch-sensitive shell on top, and you can curve and straighten it anyway you like! kinda combination of Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad !Awesome isn't it?
Microsoft has just announced launch titles for games which are going to be available this fall on Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone 7. It should be no secret now that Microsoft is going to heavily rely on its already popular and established Xbox platform to bring firepower to this new mobile platform. Official list of launch titles for Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone 7 are as follows.
