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March 14th, 2008

Guitar Hero III Master at SXSW

Here’s a video I grabbed of a guy that was tearing up Guitar Hero III at the Microsoft trade show booth.
I didn’t catch his name, I’m fairly certain he was specifically brought in by Microsoft for the event. I did hear he was the #1 ranked player in the world or something. Not sure if […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 14th, 2008

Silverlight Popularity and Features of Silverlight 2

I was just scanning the feeds and came across this post by Dave Bost on his blog. He’s talking about some of what happened at Mix ‘08 and what was mentioned there about Silverlight.
Scott Guthrie was…er…juggling the keynote at MIX’08 this year. You could say he was head ringmaster. As opposed to Ray Ozzie kicking […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 6th, 2008

New Song Packs for Guitar Hero III

New song packs are available for download from Xbox Live Marketplace.
Activison has produced some excellent additional content for Guitar Hero III®: Legends of Rock, expanding the library of songs with even more individual song tracks and song packs. Fresh new songs and exciting content will continue to be released on a regular basis, […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

February 17th, 2008

Microsoft Shows Some Love on Valentine’s Day

In one of the podcasts I was listening to this past week I heard of a situation where Microsoft had issued some special, red Zune for Valentine’s Day. The problem is that there may have been more interest in the Valentine’s Day Zune than they expected, combined with issues in production.
As soon as Microsoft […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 1st, 2008

Microsoft Should Buy Yahoo! for $44.6B

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 […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

January 8th, 2008

Is Xbox 360 "Wireless Ready"

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? […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

January 2nd, 2008

Top 10 Posts on Microsoft Weblog in 2007

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 […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

December 29th, 2007

Microsoft Ford Sync TV Commercial

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 […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 12th, 2007

Halo 3 Let Down

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 […]

By Jason Bean -- 10 comments

October 8th, 2007

After 2 Weeks - What Do You Think About Halo 3?

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 […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment