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Google to Microsoft: kill your YouTube app 'immediately'
Google has asked Microsoft to remove its homebrew YouTube app from the Windows Store immediately, and requested that it delete the app from Windows Phone users who have already downloaded it.
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Leap Motion shows off how it's incredible controller will interact with Windows 8
It's what we've always envisioned for Leap Motion — to break down the barriers between people and technology. Here's a video to show you how close we are. With Leap Motion technology, Windows OS is natural, easy, and fun to use.
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Microsoft’s new Xbox One is an Apple killer, in the living room
Microsoft today unveiled the Xbox One, the third generation of its popular gaming console and the first significant hardware upgrade since 2005. With it, Microsoft continues a quest to be king of the living room and remains, at least in this market, a more innovative and successful company than Apple.
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Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4
With specs revealed for the Xbox One, we finally have a chance to directly compare it with that other yet-to-be-released gaming console, the PlayStation 4.
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Microsoft takes a page from Samsung's Apple-bashing playbook in new ad (Video)
Samsung’s smartphone commercials didn’t really begin to generate any buzz until the company took aim at Apple and started to mock its products and users. Now, it appears Microsoft is going to try to take the same road to riches with Windows 8 and Windows RT.
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Microsoft's Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse have built-in Start buttons
File this under "things we could have sworn already existed." Microsoft just announced two mice, the Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse, and believe it or not, this marks the first time Redmond has made a pointing device with a hotkey for the Windows 8 Start screen.
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Xbox One and Used Games: The Real Reason Everyone's So Mad
It's much easier to assign a bogeyman to explain away why you can't own something than it is to simply say you can't afford it. And this natural human tendency might explain why the backlash against Microsoft's reported treatment of Xbox One used games has become a moral imperative, instead of one about how goddamn expensive the platonic ideal of an Xbox One experience will be.
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Ex-Microsoft manager plans to create first U.S. marijuana brand
A former Microsoft executive plans to create the first U.S. national marijuana brand, with cannabis he hopes to eventually import legally from Mexico, and said he was kicking off his business by acquiring medical pot dispensaries in three U.S. states.
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8 Things Windows 8 Tablets Can Do That The iPad Can't
Apple's iPad may have set the standard for tablets, but the competition is working hard to catch up.
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Microsoft details Xbox One 24-hour online check, used game policies, and Kinect privacy
Microsoft is confirming today that its upcoming Xbox One console will need to connect to the internet every 24 hours for games to work.
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Xbox Live Gold Is Still One of the Biggest Ripoffs in Tech
A lot of mud has been slung Microsoft's way this week, much of it deserved. Used game restrictions, mandatory internet check-ins; these new impositions don't sit well. But they also distract from the single worst thing about the Xbox One, which was also the single worst thing about Xbox 360: The tyranny of Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.
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Microsoft To Set Up Windows Stores In 600 Best Buy Locations by Summer
Microsoft today announced that it is partnering with Best Buy to set up its own store-within-a-store in 500 Best Buy locations in the U.S. and 100 Best Buy and Future Shop locations in Canada.
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Why I'm Getting the Xbox One, Not the PS4 (Ugh)
If you're anything like me, your penchant for gaming has probably dwindled over the years. And, as I stand on the precipice of unloading an ungodly amount of money on either Microsoft or Sony's next generation console, I ask myself if I should upgrade to either, or just opt for a media streaming box? The answer: I'm getting an Xbox One. Here's why.
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Microsoft to Pull Complete Reversal on Xbox One DRM Policies
The tug-of-war between Microsoft and Sony just got more interesting. Multiple sources inform me Microsoft will announce what amounts to a complete reversal on its DRM policies for Xbox One today.
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10 Bizarre Microsoft Ads That Will Hurt Your Brain
We're taking a look at a few of our favorite weird and wonderful Microsoft videos, from commercials to in-house promos to clips that defy definition.
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Xbox One’s $700M data center should help combat the PS4′s onslaught
In the wake of Microsoft backtracking on some of the draconian online requirements for the Xbox One, the company has been hard at work preparing the world for its next console. It has only been a few days since the announcement, and already so much has happened. There are more interesting tidbits than we know what to do with, so we're going to save you some time and bring you up to speed right here.
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Windows 8.1′s Start Button Isn’t A Start Button
The headlines are loud and clear today. Microsoft brings back the Start Button in Windows 8! Huzzah! ZONG! But don't believe the hype. We've been duped. Windows 8.1's Start Button isn't the Start Button of old. The classic multi-step application launcher is still missing.
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Xbox boss Don Mattrick reportedly leaving Microsoft for Zynga
Don Mattrick, the head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business that oversees the company's Xbox division, is reportedly stepping down to take a high-level position at Zynga.
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Microsoft Quietly Shuts Down MSN TV, Once Known as WebTV
Microsoft said that its MSN TV service will be closing down at the end of September, in a post on its Web site and in an email to users. MSN TV, of course, was born of WebTV, which was thought up by well-known entrepreneur Steve Perlman. The software giant bought it at the height of the Web 1.0 boom in mid-1997, paying $425 million.
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11-X, WEP, Midway, CyberPlayGround, FACE – the rejected names for Microsoft's first console
Microsoft’s ‘naming guys’ wanted to call the company’s first games console 11-X or Eleven-X, but were overruled by Seamus Blackley and his launch team. Blackley was part of the team that built and launched the first Xbox, and in an excerpt from an archive Edge interview published online for the first time, he revealed to us the long list of suggested acronym-based names for what eventually became the Xbox.
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