If you’ve got an Xbox 360 in your gaming den and like to play online, you know just how exceptionally awesome Xbox Live is. Well, one of Windows Phone 7’s greatest features is the tight Xbox Live integration. Your XBL avatar, your achievements/gamer score and your friends; they can all be carried in your pocket with a WP7 smartphone.
As we reported yesterday, a new build of Windows 8, build 7989, has surfaced. Slowly but surely, it's finding its way onto file sharing sites, and some Windows enthusiasts have already dug deep into it. Among the new features found, there's a new virtual keyboard, per-feature licensing and SMS support.
Kinect, developed by Microsoft, is rather amazing. Thanks to a few cameras and sensors, this Xbox add-on can accurately detect body movements in real time. Thanks to the just-released SDK, which the Redmond company unveiled today, developers will be able to code their own applications for the device connected to Windows PCs, making good for more than just games.
Windows 8 - the successor to the highly successful Windows 7 operating system - will release sometime in Autumn, 2012. The news comes from a Microsoft VP speaking at an event at Microsoft’s headquarters.
Microsoft today released a new theme titled “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” for Windows 7. Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer and actor. He was discovered on YouTube back in 2008 and then, as they say, the rest is history.
3D is an interesting proposition. Many love it, while equally as many loath it. After the recent success of the 3rd dimension in the world of movies, it was inevitable 3D would make it to the home gaming market. Sony was the first to toy with the idea of 3D and now if reports are correct, Microsoft is also getting ready to bring a 3D element to its Xbox 360 console.
If you've watched Microsoft concept videos over the years, you probably know how fond the company is of the idea of "Software Plus Services". Microsoft has always painted it as the ability to preserve local software, while still have it interact with online services in real time. While Microsoft has made quite a few achievements in that area in the past few years, isn't Apple about to nail it with iCloud?
If you're familiar with Microsoft's Kinect technology, you were probably amazed the first time you saw it, since its motion tracking accuracy looks like it's been taken straight out of a science fiction movie. That said, having such an awesome technology restricted to just gaming would be quite a waste: that's why Razorfish, a company that designs creative user experiences, has applied it to shopping. Say hello to KinectShop!
Microsoft is taking concrete steps to unify their themes and services across different platforms. The first efforts for this appeared in the form of the Metro design language which started from Windows Phone 7 and then moved on to Xbox Live, Office and Windows 8.
We’ve already covered the massive line-up of games Microsoft announced at E3. In this post, we’ll cover the all-new Xbox Dashboard, Live TV, YouTube and Bing integration.
