February 1st, 2008
The big news today is Microsoft’s offer of almost $50 billion dollars for Yahoo! Yahoo has recently announced layoffs of their own workforce so they are in need of something serious happening to shake things up a bit.
he surprise offer of $31 per share, made late Thursday and announced Friday, seizes on Yahoo’s weakness […]
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January 8th, 2008
I was just on the Xbox.com website looking for details about the Xbox 360 Quick Charge Kit and I saw the advertisement above.
Did you know the Xbox 360 is wireless ready? It all depends on what you consider wireless ready. When you see the word “wireless” nowadays do you think of wi-fi Internet access? […]
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January 2nd, 2008
As we begin a new year with The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog, let’s take a look back at the Top 10 posts last year.
#10 My Xbox 360 Update
#9 Wal-Mart Experiences Red Ring of Death
#8 Halo 3 Retail Box Packaging Leaked
#7 More Halo 3 Screen Shots
#6 Is Office 2007 […]
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December 29th, 2007
The advertising for Microsoft’s new Sync product in Ford vehicles has been pretty strong since the Thanksgiving holidays where I believe it debuted. I’m sitting in my living room and there’s a PC Magazine with a Sync advertisement on the back cover.
I’m sitting here watching the New England Patriots go for the perfect season and […]
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October 12th, 2007
I conquered Halo 3 last night and I’ve got to say it was a bit of a let down for me. Let me not confuse you, the game-play itself has been fun and I love the new additions of weapons, vehicles and enemies, but the ending itself was a little lackluster in my opinion.
Have you […]
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October 8th, 2007
The Halo 3 commercial above is in itself a great production. The music is great! They should totally be capitalizing on all of this and start making toys that are the same size and scale as G.I.Joe figures (the small ones). Of course I could just be saying that because I was a huge G.I.Joe […]
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September 19th, 2007
It’s been 7 days since I last wrote about the Apple Software Update program repeatedly downloading a huge update. After I wrote that post it did it again, and now today it’s downloading again!
What the heck is Apple doing?
Why is QuickTime still separate from iTunes anyway. I can understand being able to download QuickTime […]
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September 12th, 2007
Microsoft has its problems, nobody is arguing that here. But these constant version updates and huge downloads for the new version are extremely irritating!
Why in the world do I have to download and install a whole new copy of the software for an update?
At least I hope that’s a whole new copy at […]
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September 1st, 2007
Received this e-mail letting me know that Sony announced their decision to move their Walkman products to the Windows Media Technology platform.
Today Sony announced its intent to move to a Windows Media Technology platform for Walkman® products in the United States, Canada and Europe. We strongly believe that the decision to embrace a more […]
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August 17th, 2007
Have you heard of this? Microsoft Harmonica?
Mary Jo Foley believes it’s an application for peer-to-peer synchronization of data, or the “harmony” between disparate sources that can be achieved with this application.
Back story: Harmonica is a codename I first got wind of a year ago. The way it was described to me was it was […]
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