A mysterious hacker broke into the YouTube channel of Microsoft, posting solicitations for sponsorships and deleting all of its videos. Tech news site Geekwire reported that the hacker uploaded some videos soliciting advertisements for the hacked channel, but was removed as of Monday morning. It replaced the videos with others that claim the company is holding a contest. “The background on the channel has been replaced and all of the company’s archived videos, including those for its newly launched advertising campaign, have been...
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Fans who expect Microsoft to announce its next-generation Xbox console at next year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) might be a little disappointed. A number of sources claim that the company and its industry partners are working towards a 2013 release of a next generation console that will be the successor of the Xbox 360. According to reports, middleware firms to processor chip manufacturers have been working closely with Microsoft to build a new gaming console that is expected to be unveiled at E3 2013, which might mean that...
Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., does not have anything good to say about the Android operating system and Google apps, as he appeared at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Ballmer attacked Google’s Android, saying that the operating system is too hard for ordinary users to handle. “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows phone and you do to use an Android phone,” he said. “It is hard for me to be excited about the Android phones.” Though not excited about Android...
Microsoft Corp. has officially announced that its acquisition of the Internet video chat company Skype has closed. Skype is now a new business division within Microsoft. Tony Bates, the chief executive officer of Skype, now assumes the role of Skype division’s president, and will report directly to Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft. Skype will now support devices from Microsoft, including the Windows Phone, Xbox, Kinect and other Windows devices. Microsoft will also integrate Skype with its services such as Outlook, Lync and Xbox...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has published a new patent awarded to Microsoft that points out to an interesting future for fans of the Windows Phone 7 platform. The patent, which was files in March of last year, would enable easily swappable accessories for mobile phones that run Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Microsoft’s new patent, called “Mobile communication device having multiple, interchangeable second devices,” features slider mobile phones that are designed to carry interchangeable accessories,...
It appears that Apple is not the only tech company that has problems handling secrets. Reports say that a Windows Phone program manager at Microsoft has been fired after posting a tweet about a Nokia device running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. Joe Marini, a program manager for Windows Phone at Microsoft, made a harmless tweet confirming an unnamed Windows Phone 7 device being developed by Finland-based phone giant Nokia. This will be the phone manufacturer’s first attempt at running another operating system...
Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced their plans to roll out a new Xbox TV service this holiday season, in a meeting with analysts this past week. The TV service will be available on the Xbox 360 console and will enable users to stream select TV shows. The CEO said that the Xbox team and Microsoft are working with “dozens of video content suppliers” and these options will be made available in addition to live TV. He also touted the Xbox TV service’s Kinect functionality, particularly its Bing...
Microsoft has revealed that the Windows 8 Developer Preview, a pre-beta version of the company’s newest operating system, has been downloaded 500,000 times in the first 12 hours after it was launched. The preview version of Windows 8 was posted to Microsoft’s website on Wednesday, just after the company officially unveiled its latest operating system. Microsoft released two versions for users to download: a 2.8 GB 32-bit version and a 4.8 GB 64-bit version. This marks a different approach, as downloading the OS came with no...
The Blue Screen of Death has always been the only thing that we don’t want to see on our computers. It is just an error message that is filled with text that tells the users about what caused the crash in the Windows operating system. For many of us who have seen it, it makes absolutely no sense and we follow it up with a reboot. Now, with the new Windows operating system, the Windows 8, the Blue Screen of Death has been replaced to something easier on the mind. Whenever Windows crashes, users will not be greeted by a text filled...
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled the first tablet that will run the Windows 8 to developers last Tuesday. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows, showed off the device while presenting a number of features of the company’s new operating system, Windows 8, at the 2011 BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. The company said that they will give out 5,000 units of the device to developers and while that is nice, the bigger picture is that the device could be a strong prototype of a consumer-focused Windows 8 machine. This is Microsoft and...