Microsoft Wants You to Pay Monthly Subscription for Office and Services You Won’t Use
Microsoft is testing a new bundle of fun codenamed “Albany” which rolls Office Home and Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspace and some other Live services into a package that you’ll pay a monthly fee for. It’s th...
Vista is a ‘Work in Progress’
Microsoft CEO and sweat machine Steve Ballmer recently called Vista a “work in progress,” acknowledging some of the mistakes Microsoft made in rolling out the latest version of Windows and hinting that they’re considering keeping XP ...
Microsoft to Release Limited-Edition Joy Division Zune in June
Microsoft will release a limited-edition Joy Division Zune sometime around June 5, coordinated with the launch of a DVD about the band. It is thought that the Joy Division Zune will be designed by Peter Saville, the graphic designer behind both Joy D...
Microsoft’s Zune Video X Could Be Xbox Live Marketplace Meets iTunes
Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet has a pretty interesting rumor on a Zune Marketplace-like service in development code named “Zune Video X”. It’s supposed to take what Microsoft’s learned from their Xbox 360 Live Marketplace endeavo...
Your Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Is Still Awesome
Game Daily had a chat with Microsoft Game Studios VP Shane Kim about the Xbox 360, and one of the topics that came up was the defunct (but cheap!) HD DVD player, which you might still be tempted to eBay for $1.25. But you shouldn’t! Kim effuses...
Microsoft Wearable Mouse Patent Should Be Named “The Surf N’ Jerk”
Microsoft continues their quest to bring Minority Report to life with a recently published patent for a wearable mouse from 2006. Now you too can wave your hands around like Tom Cruise—jumping optional—to control the cursor on your compute...
Vista Update Scrambling USB Devices, SP1 Auto-Rollout Stalled?
An update that went out last week for Vista to patch security holes in Windows Defender (ironically) is apparently knocking out some USB devices like mice and keyboards, so that they stop working entirely. Microsoft actually admits the issue: “W...