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Xbox One won’t play games out of the box, requires day-one patch
If you unbox and turn on an Xbox One on November 22nd, make sure you have an internet connection nearby. Microsoft has revealed that a day-one patch for its upcoming next-gen console will be a requirement to play games and access basic apps on the console. "Functionally, you will be able to do very little without taking the day-one update," said Microsoft’s senior director of Xbox product management Albert Penello in an interview with Engadget recently.
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Kinect 2 Full Video Walkthrough: The Xbox Sees You Like Never Before
The new Kinect is kind of awesome. Just by the numbers, it's a huge upgrade. You can see (most of) the full walkthrough we saw just a bit ago here at Microsoft's Redmond campus in the video above. Parts are jaw-dropping.
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A sometimes true, sometimes false history of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4
Next week begins what many will consider the official roll out of next-generation consoles when the PlayStation 4 launches in North America. The following week sees the debut of Microsoft's Xbox One.
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Xbox One pre-orders arrive ahead of Target
If you were impressed by the flood of Xbox One information unleashed today or Microsoft's 12-minute demo video and just have to have one first, there may be a way. eBay seller priceless228 claims a mistake by Target sent this Standard Edition console their way weeks ahead of the official November 22nd launch date, and now they're auctioning it off in order to create products for special education students (isn't that nice?).
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Microsoft axes its controversial employee-ranking system
Microsoft is killing off its controversial stack ranking system today. While it could be viewed as an internal change that won’t affect consumers directly, it will have a broad effect on current and future Microsoft employees that may just shape the future of the company. For years Microsoft has used a technique, stack ranking, that affectively encourages workers to compete against each other rather than a collaborative Microsoft that CEO Steve Ballmer is trying to push ahead of his retirement.
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Steve Ballmer has made more than $1.7 billion since firing himself
Whisper it quietly. Microsoft shares have quietly leapt to their highest levels in more than 13 years. There are probably a few factors driving the stock higher: better than expected fourth quarter results, a dividend hike and $40 billion share buyback program, and continued strength in the company’s enterprise business, among them. But the real reason appears to be Steve Ballmer’s imminent departure, and chatter that Ford CEO Alan Mulally is firming up as the favorite to succeed him.
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Bill Gates: Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help
I am a little obsessed with fertilizer. I mean I’m fascinated with its role, not with using it. I go to meetings where it’s a serious topic of conversation. I read books about its benefits and the problems with overusing it. It’s the kind of topic I have to remind myself not to talk about too much at cocktail parties, since most people don’t find it as interesting as I do.
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The birth of Xbox Live
How Microsoft's engineers created the world's first broadband-connected game console, based on interviews with the people who made it.
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The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions
Microsoft’s former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but with some unpleasant side-effects.
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Ballmer reflects on time with Microsoft: 'I'm big, I'm bald and I'm loud'
Give outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer credit: He seems to be very in touch with who he really is. In a lengthy interview with The Wall Street Journal, Ballmer said that he decided to step down from Microsoft because he wasn’t moving fast enough to get the company’s mobile products up to speed with Apple and Google.
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Microsoft Releases Free 3D Printing App for Windows 8.1
Microsoft on Friday announced the availability of 3D Builder, the software giant's first 3D printing application making use of a new 3D printing pipeline built into the Windows 8.1 update.
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Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells WSJ that he was part of the problem
"At the end of the day, we need to break a pattern. Face it: I'm a pattern."
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Microsoft's new Cybercrime Center combines tactics against hacking groups
The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers, digital forensics experts and lawyers trained in fighting software pirates under one roof at its new Cybercrime Center.
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30 years ago Windows was first released, see how much it has changed
In November of 1983 Bill Gates officially announced Windows 1.0. The OS wouldn't launch until two years later, but that marked the beginning of Windows. In the 30 years since that day we have seen ...
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Apple acquires Kinect-tech maker PrimeSense for $345M
Apple’s much-rumored iTV (and other iGadgets) could be getting Kinect-like motion sensing tech. Israeli financial news site Calcalist reports that Apple has scooped up PrimeSense, the Tel Aviv-based company behind the motion-tracking technology in Microsoft’s original Xbox 360 Kinect, in a deal worth roughly $345 million.
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Xbox One controller cost over $100 million to develop, smell-o-vision and built-in projector were considered
While Sony was content to toy with radical designs for the PlayStation 4's controller, it turns out Microsoft took a more conservative approach when building the Xbox One's gamepad. GamesBeat scored a look at the controller creation process and discovered that Redmond was reluctant to tweak the Xbox 360 controller at all since it considers the hardware "best-in-class."
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Nokia Investors Clear $7.4 Billion Phone-Unit Sale to Microsoft
Nokia investors cleared the sale of its mobile-phone unit to Microsoft Corp. in a 5.44 billion-euro ($7.4 billion) deal, unshackling the Finnish company from the unprofitable division and letting it focus on networks. Shareholders meeting in Helsinki yesterday approved the disposal of the business that makes Lumia smartphones and Asha feature phones to the software giant, Nokia officials announced at the event. More than 99 percent voted in favor of the deal.
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Xbox One Review
Microsoft didn't mean to take over your living room. When it launched in 2005, the Xbox 360 was just a device for games — "the Holy Grail of gaming," in the immortal words of MTV's Sway. It would show your pictures if you plugged in a thumb drive, but it was designed to be the best way ever for gamers to play.
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Google puts down Microsoft for selling 'Scroogled' merchandise
Old rivals Google and Microsoft are at it again, this time squabbling over a few pieces of clothing and a coffee mug.
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Windows 9 Concepts: Designers Imagine the Next Microsoft Operating System
Windows 8.1 is here, but unfortunately for some users, it brings almost no visual improvements, except for a Start button that doesn't do anything..
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