It looks like we may get a peek at Microsoft’s Xbox 360 follow-up when E3 2012 rolls around next June. That would put the Xbox “720” (or whatever—let’s just hope not “You,” We,” or “Us”) squarely in competition with Nintendo’s Wii U rollout, if rumors about Nintendo’s spring-summer launch timeframe for it’s own next-gen console prove …
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‘Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary’ Celebrates Master Chief’s Birthday
Ten years ago, Halo proved gamers who thought first-person shooters would never excel on consoles wrong.
Bungie’s landmark sci-fi title brought the speed and accuracy needed for a fun FPS experience to the first Xbox and introduced players to a sweeping cosmic mythos that’s gone on to inspire books, comics and animation. Last year’s …
Welcome to the Post-Post-PC Era
Over at TIME.com, my Technologizer column for this week is about Microsoft’s demo of Windows 8 last week and Apple’s demos of OS X 10.7, iOS 5, and iCloud this week–how they relate to each other and what they might mean for the future of personal technology. I refused to talk about the PC dying, but I did say that we may be seeing the …
E3 2011: Microsoft Showcases ‘Halo 4,’ Hardcore Kinect-ions
The one message that Microsoft drove home during their E3 2011 press conference is that they’re going to give everyone–from hardcore gamers to avid TV watchers to casual players–reason to turn on their hyper-successful motion-sensing peripheral.
Xbox exec Marc Whitten claimed that the goal is to “get the technology out of your …
E3 2011: Xbox 360 Gets Live TV in ‘New’ New Xbox Experience
What’s the one thing you wish Xbox Live had in the U.S., that it doesn’t today? Yep, I said live TV, too. I haven’t actually had live TV (or frankly any sort of cable TV package) for years. When I watch TV at all, it’s to plumb Netflix’s super-giganto library, or to pop in a couple seasons of something long-since-aired on DVD. But I …
It’s Official: It’s Microsoft & Facebook vs. Twitter & Apple
Pick your sides. The lines have been drawn.
During Monday’s World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced a complete integration with Twitter for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. (See here for more from the WWDC announcement.)
Users will be able to use a single login for Twitter that will work across Camera, Photo and other …
Microsoft: Xbox 360 Growth ‘More Than Triple’ PlayStation 3
Adding to Sony’s ongoing hack-attack tribulations, Microsoft’s taking a victory lap today, claiming its Xbox 360 games console outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 during the first four months of 2011.
Microsoft claims that, life-to-date, it’s sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide (out of 38 countries) and that “sales are accelerating.” …
Why Apple Enthusiasts Are Wrong About Windows 8
On Wednesday evening, Microsoft showed the first public glimpses of Windows 8, including a touch screen interface that’s unlike any version of Windows we’ve ever seen. And already, Apple enthusiasts are chiming in with disdain.
Microsoft just doesn’t get it, they say. Windows 8 drops the ball by supporting both tablet and legacy …
Windows 8’s Look and Feel: It’s New. New, New, New, New, New!
This post originally appeared on Technologizer.
Well, gee whiz. At the D9 conference yesterday afternoon, Windows honcho Steven Sinofsky presided over the first good look anyone outside of Redmond has gotten at “Windows 8.” And it turns out that it has a strikingly new user interface. Maybe the most strikingly new one it’s …
Watch: Microsoft’s First Official ‘Windows 8’ Interface Demo
Lookin’ good, Microsoft. Windows 8 is shaping up to be very touchy-feely, as Microsoft’s first official video demo shows. There’s a whole lot of Windows Phone 7 influence here, which makes it look nothing like previous versions of Windows built for PCs.
That being said, Microsoft’s press release states:
“Although the new user
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Is It Even Possible to Make Windows Work Well On a Tablet?
Rumor has it that Steven Sinofsky–the guy who runs Windows for Microsoft–will show off the next version of Windows at the Wall Street Journal’s “D” conference next week. (I used that possibility as an excuse to write about the Windows 8 I’d like to see for this week’s Technologizer column over on TIME.com.)
Sinofsky will supposedly …
Top 10 Features in Windows Phone’s ‘Mango’ Update
A big update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is coming this autumn, filling in many of the missing pieces that made Microsoft an also-ran in the smartphone wars. But the so-called “Mango” update is more than just a game of catch-up; it also brings a bunch of features that other phones don’t have, or can only add through third-party …