Tag Archive for 'microsoft'
There have been plenty of rumors floating around that Microsoft will release some sort of motion-sensitive controller for the Xbox 360. The most likely time for them to make such an announcement would naturally be E3. Well they may have let the cat out of the bag just a little early.
During a recent preview for [...]
I’ve discovered that one job I could never do is be any sort of spokesperson for one of the big three console makers. For one, I totally understand that each of the major consoles has its strengths and weaknesses, and thus could never commit myself to one completely. I also couldn’t be as much of [...]
It only really took Vista to make thousands of geeks look more fondly at Windows XP, and so Microsoft’s announcement that it would be maintaining the last-gen OS for use on low-power netbooks was well received. The devil, of course, is in the details, and that’s an area Microsoft excels in: one of their more [...]
This has to be one of the craziest and most off the wall rumors that I’ve heard in a long time. Just imagine for a second that you walk into the store to purchase a brand new Xbox 360, and you find several versions to choose from. That’s nothing special, as we already have that [...]
Alright, the people that sit around and create these designs that make us gadget addicts heads go to mush are just cruel and unusual. This particular concept was featured in T3, it is an artist’s rendering of what was hinted at by Microsoft a while back ago.
If you read the first part of our Microsoft Surface Blogger Day report, you’ll know that SlashGear has been hanging out with the Seattle company’s nifty MultiTouch table. You’ve hopefully had a chance to watch the videos of Surface in action - exploring cellphone details, playing multi-user games, exploring media and more - and, if [...]
Vincent has been hanging out with Microsoft at their latest Surface Blogger Event, getting hands-on with the company’s MultiTouch table. All of the user experiences we’ve heard about over the past few months were out on show, including the Rio iBar gaming, entertainment browser and virtual mini-bar, and AT&T’s in-store use of Surface as a [...]
The other day I was sitting down and thinking how great it would be if I could create a customized digital version of myself. I could then use it to represent my online self on my console. I really thought I was onto something, then I turned on my Wii and realized that someone else [...]
Achieving the balance between flexibility and ease of use isn’t straightforward, as Microsoft have found with their Windows Mobile OS. Yes, there’s bags of functionality and a whole army of developers creating add-ons, but the result can be intimidating and actually make completing simple tasks harder. The company appears to be going more context-specific with [...]
Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 combines four programs that make your ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista even easier to use. Origami Experience 2.0 is available as a free download to UMPC owners. Back in January, Origami Experience 2.0 was released to OEMs for potential inclusion in their units and the HTC Shift is probably the [...]
