Update at bottom of the post. Someone figured out how to generate Xbox Live codes that worked, posted instructions to a forum and the resultant deluge of freeloaders has cost Microsoft anywhere between 1 million and 3.5 million dollars! $1 million dollars? Really? While it may make for an attention grabbing headline, I think that most people ...

YouTube user TheRasteri takes us through an experiment to see the effects of installing every major upgrade version of windows, in order, on the same machine. The nostalgic trip begins with an installation of MS DOS 5.0 in VMware and moves draws us through down memory lane. [Cross-posted at Winextra]

Matt Rosoff really should consider a career change. Matt Rosoff doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about, and yesterday’s post “See If You Can Spot The Problem With Microsoft’s Tablet Strategy” proves it in fine style. After reading the post all that can be claimed is that Rosoff either has a serious anti-Microsoft bug ...

Steven has written enough about how easy it is for bloggers and publishers to have a dig at Microsoft whenever they want a few cheap page views but I honestly expected better from such a respected news outlet as the BBC. My good wife emailed me the following screenshot, from Google News, of today’s BBC ...

  I know Steven has been posting a lot of “Kinect hack” videos but I couldn’t resist posting this one which shows Kinect controlling a Nintendo emulator on the PC. Of course, being a Nintendo emulator it’s running Super Mario. I programmed it to recognize my motions and passed the virtual button presses to the ...

Generally, I love a lot of the products that Microsoft make.  But, once their marketing teams get involved, I usually end up running for the hills to prevent myself from strangling each and every one of them with their own entrails. Take this promotional video for the cloud features of Windows Phone 7 as a ...

We’ve speculated about the naming of the “Arc Touch Mouse” on the WinExtra On Windows Podcast, as Microsoft already has a mouse on the market called the “Arc“. Our arguments have been settled however because thanks to German tech blog, WinFuture, we now have pictures, pricing and product details of the Arc Touch. The Arc ...

Judging by a new Microsoft patent uncovered by Manan Kakkar, DCE or “Direct Computing Experience” could be bringing the long awaited “instant on” feature to Windows 8 machines. The patent describes a simple system of press a button, see a splash screen and them play your media, much as we see in other systems such ...

The wires are buzzing. Blogs are hopping and Twitter is tweeting the news that Microsoft will give a free Windows Phone 7 Device to all employees on launch. The news, confirmed by an internal email from Andy Lees, Senior VP of Mobile, show’s just how serious they are to ensure that Windows Phone 7 succeeds. ...

Courier may be dead but the according to Steve Balmer the Slates are coming and they are coming this year. At the Worldwide Partner Conference Steve Balmer told Microsoft’s 14,000 partners to expect new Windows 7 slates before the end of this year. Asus, Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Dell, will all be issuing Windows ...