It seems last week’s speculation was true because Bungie have today confirmed that they will be breaking away from Microsoft to become an independent company.
Any group capable of producing a product that generates $300 million worth of sales in it’s first week is, surely, the thing you want to hold to the most?
Perhaps that’s […]

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Microsoft are eyeing a stake in Facebook; that’s the story, according to the Wall Street Journal. (Well, not so much the WSJ; more like”people familiar with the matter”)
Hot on the heels of the news that Google is about to expand on their efforts in the social networking services space, with the goal of out-Facebooking Facebook, […]

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I’m wondering whether it’s time to change the tool I use for drafting my blog posts offline. I’ve been using Microsoft Live Writer beta since it was released in mid-2006, which when it was released, generated a lot of surprisingly positive buzz in the usually anti-Microsoft blogosphere.
Being a beta version, it’s not without its quirks - it […]

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I didn’t use Live Messenger for a long time, and actually went so far as to uninstall it from my machines; but, you know how it is; lots of my friends still prefer to use Live Messenger rather than Skype or Google Talk, so I installed it again.
I was going through my news feeds this […]

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In response to a wall of silence from Microsoft, an unhappy Xbox customer has set up a web site where anyone whose favorite games console has been bricked by a recent software update can add their name:
http://www.xbox360defective.com/index.php
He is one of a growing number of angry gamers frustrated at the way Microsoft are ignoring the scale […]

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After a recent dashboard update was pushed out from Xbox live and applied to my 360, I got the dreaded red flashing lights and my favorite games console is now nothing better than an expensive brick.
Reading through the forums on xbox.com, I’m not the only one who has had their console bricked by this update, either. […]

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