Microsoft wants to revolutionise the virtual workspace experience with its new Viva platform.

Sega, Sony, and Nokia, all tried to beat Nintendo at its own game, and failed. So what of Microsoft then? If any company had the time and resources to create a handheld console that could give the Nintendo 3DS or even the Switch a run for its money, it had to be the home of Xbox. Microsoft was having none of that though.

That’s a lot of monthly subscribers that Microsoft probably still isn’t making any money from.

Microsoft has filed a patent that could see them creating Chatbots that can imitate celebrities or even deceased people.

Friday ended with a bit of a shocker, as Microsoft announced that it would soon be jacking the price of Xbox Live Gold up considerably. Many pundits presumed that this was an effort to drive more people towards adopting an Xbox Game Pass subscription, but whatever the true reasoning behind the move, folks weren’t exactly impressed.

I’m writing this up because hope is a strange and powerful weapon, and one can only dream that its’ not being abused in this case.

Big tech companies are teaming up to create a tech solution to help identify who has been vaccinated from Covid-19.

Microsoft’s been on a tear over the last few years, dropping a casual billion dollars here and there to acquire studios that can make the Xbox an RPG ecosystem not to be chuffed around with. That spending spree could have occurred a lot sooner though, as during the early days of the development of the original Xbox console, Microsoft was ready to throw money at some big names in the gaming industry.