Microsoft Founder Bill Gates was insulted by the Xbox pitch
Thought everyone was alright with the first Xbox? Microsoft Founder Bill Gates hated the idea initially
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Sony and Microsoft to merge? Not likely
A newly registered domain name indicates that Sony and Microsoft may be about to make an announcement about working together.
Steve Ballmer defends the Xbox investment
So yesterday we posted a community news piece on how Goldman Sachs had dropped their rating of Microsoft and had singled out the Entertainment division which houses the Xbox as an example of a division that Microsoft should offload. However today Steve Ballmer has been chatting to the London School of Economics about cloud computing and has raised the Xbox …
Ballmer – More diversity in the Xbox 360 coming down the line
The next big thing for Microsoft at the moment is Cloud Computing (which I am not the biggest fan off), but cloud computing really has nothing to do with gaming. However recently Steve Ballmer was at the University of Washington to give a speech on Cloud Computing and during the Q&A time he had the following to say. Last Updated: …
Xbox 360 Sales Numbers and Statistics
To compliment their CES keynote , Microsoft’s beautiful Steve Ballmer (pictured above) has supplied lifetime sales figures and statistics regarding their current-gen console, and its flagship service, Xbox Live. As of now, roughly 39 million Xbox 360’s have been sold worldwide, with just over half of those consoles being connected to Xbox live. There’s no mention of what percentage of …
Microsoft Confirms New Console In 2010
When Microsoft’s Shane Kim told the world that the launch of Project Natal would be “on par with a new generation console launch”, what he actually meant to say was that it basically will be the launch of a new console. 1UP reported earlier this week that Microsoft are going to launch a new console in 2010, but the whole …
Will Microsoft announce anything at CES this year?
The Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas is currently on and Microsoft are coming up to bat later today… but are they going to announce anything exciting for gamers? According to the rumours last week they were going to be making two huge gaming announcements that we should all look forward to, well Pac-Man has come and gone so what else …
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