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Windows Vista Soft Drink

Microsoft commissioned special-edition cans of the Lemon-Lime Talking Rain sparkling water for their employees, complete with Vista logo and an intranet link for them to find out more information about Vista. Guess Microsoft needs to hype up the energy internally as well, since they’re adding these to the stock of other free sodas employees drink.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Zune May Support Windows Media Stores, Subscription Services

Get ready for some double-negative logic: Microsoft’s Zune won’t necessarily not support Windows Media files and subscription services, according to a member of the group that works on current Windows Media devices. In fact, reports on the Web that Microsoft was backing off away from PlaysForSure seem to be based on misunderstandings: Microsoft still wants…

Tech News Peter Kirn

Possible Zune Launch Dates: Week Before Thanksgiving: Tuesday 14th or Friday 17th

Our Zune tipsters tell us that the Microsoft Zune is going to be launched the week before Thanksgiving this November. Whether that means Tuesday the 14th, Friday the 17th, or heck, maybe even Wednesday or Thursday, we have no idea. The point is Microsoft wants to start their buzz around that week, so it will…

Tech News Jason Chen

Windows Vista Voice Recognition Crashes and Burns

What happens when a Microsoft employee demos the speech recognition in Windows Vista before it’s ready? Check it out for yourselves. It’s not a pretty sight. Our buddies at Jalopnik pointed us to the flakey Windows Vista voice recognition demo shown at a recent event. We tried to record it off of CNBC but our…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Zune To Come With Some Content

The official Microsoft Zune blog, the same one used to disseminate information to other blogs, says the Zune is going to come with “some content” on it—no what, who, or how much of it. Wow, could you tell us less? Maybe not even mention the name Zune at all? Perhaps go back to denying that…

Tech News Jason Chen

Bullet Pointed List of What Vista Offers Over Media Center ’05

A Microsoft Project Manager for their eHome division got sick and tired of people complaining that there weren’t any “new features” in Vista over MCE 2005. So tired, in fact, he compiled a huge list of all the 32 new features that will improve your life. Some of the ones that we know you’re looking…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung 4GB Flash Disk: Windows Vista Performance Booster

Samsung is beginning production of a special 4GB solid-state disk (SSD) it says will dramatically speed up notebooks and PCs when using Microsoft Windows Vista. Using a Vista feature called Windows ReadyBoost, Samsung says this little flash disk will eliminate hundreds of exasperating multi-second delays when working with the operating system. According to Samsung: “The…

Tech News Charlie White

Microsoft Zune Teaser Commercial?

Damn, I haven’t even finished my morning coffee and toast and this is the second Zune post. I am really sick of this thing, but I will give in and show this teaser video that GenerationMP3 found. Nowhere in this mysterious commercial is Zune mentioned or directly shown, but at the end it does say…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Breaking News: Microsoft Zune Gets FCC Approval?

Portable video player and game device Microsoft Zune has everyone all atwitter since the Redmondians officially announced the brand last week, and now sleuths at Mobilewhack found a document posted at the FCC that shows what is said to be the approval of Zune, where in the document it’s called Microsoft Presenter 3000. https://gizmodo.com/zune-officially-announced-189108 A…

Tech News Charlie White

iSight Windows Driver Contest

We all saw how well the Windows XP on Intel Mac contest worked, so why not do something similar for the iSight? As you may know, the iSight is the popular Apple webcam that may be discontinued, due to all the new machines—iMac, MacBook, MacBookPro—coming with a built in iSight. Ignoring the Mac Mini of…

Tech News Jason Chen

Zune News Trifecta

Since Microsoft’s official announcement in Billboard didn’t tell us all that much new info, here’s a little bit more on Zune’s rumored capabilities from another tipster. https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-zune-announcement-189112 There’s going to be an add-on game pad similar to the Sony Ericsson P800 Bluetooth game pad. However, this one is going to be magnetic (really?) so it…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft’s Zune Announcement

We got a peek at the Billboard Mag piece on the Zune, which for all the buzz that’s been going around, is fairly light on details. Microsoft says it’s a “brand” (probably in the way that iPod is a brand), and that Zune-branded devices are going to follow this first flagship model—portable video players and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Zune Officially Announced

Microsoft has a big interview in Billboard Magazine next week spilling the rice and beans on the Zune. The three bullet points we were able to get, since we’re too poor to buy T-Shirts without holes in them let alone subscribe to Billboard magazine: Microsoft officials for the first time have confirmed that the Redmond,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Minor Zune Rumor Update: Possible Launch Month

BetaNews is claiming that Microsoft’s Zune is going to be launched in an October-ish timeframe. Our own tipsters tell us it’s more of a November-ish launch, but it sounds close enough either way. The online music service would be called “Alexandria”, as in the Library of. Interesting choice. And the Pixas, the second upcoming player,…

Tech News Jason Chen

That Blu-rayin’ is Hard, Sez Microsoft

Now we hear from our beloved basement-dwelling brothers at Kotaku that Microsoft spokespeople are saying that Blu-ray discs are apparently “hard to make.” There’s an extra layer of copy protection on Blu-ray discs, called BD+, and that makes the manufacturing of those disks a whole lot more complicated. In a recent podcast, a couple of…

Tech News Charlie White

Zune Getting a Little Satellite Radio Love?

ThinkSecret has been scouring the globe for news and information about Microsoft’s iPod killer, Zune. During a casual read of their latest information post, I noticed a little sentence that got me all hot and flustered. “Along with Wi-Fi, Microsoft is said to be considering a satellite radio receiver option for the device along with…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Microsoft to Develop Cricket Umpiring Technologies

A bat is a bat, even if it flat, right? Microsoft seems to think so. Cricket officials have been receiving criticism from the International Cricket Council because the Indian umpires weren’t too keen on international standards. This is where Microsoft steps in. Talks have began with Microsoft to develop a system that would raise umpiring…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Microsoft Approaching iPod Manufacturers For Zune Accessories

Microsoft is trying to woo accessory makers that are currently making iPod products into supporting their upcoming Zune player. Microsoft hopes these manufacturers will make items such as speaker docks and FM transmitters that will fit in the Zune’s expansion port—much like devices communicate with the iPod via its port. MS is also offering a…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Zune Update

More Zune news courtesy of various people in various places of product development. This time our tipster says the Zune is only the flagship product of a new line of portable devices. Think the iPod Video in relation to the iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle. Important, but not the only kid on the block.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Ends Support of Windows 98 Today

Hey there, kiddies, Uncle Billy really hopes you’re not still using Windows 98 because starting today his mom and pop operation is no longer offering technical support for it. Internet Explorer on the fritz? Task bar disappeared? BSODs getting you down? Well, it’s no longer his problem, so tough cookies. In addition to ending [paid,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Windows Vista Soft Drink

Zune May Support Windows Media Stores, Subscription Services

Possible Zune Launch Dates: Week Before Thanksgiving: Tuesday 14th or Friday 17th

Windows Vista Voice Recognition Crashes and Burns

Microsoft Zune To Come With Some Content

Bullet Pointed List of What Vista Offers Over Media Center ’05

Samsung 4GB Flash Disk: Windows Vista Performance Booster

Microsoft Zune Teaser Commercial?

Breaking News: Microsoft Zune Gets FCC Approval?

iSight Windows Driver Contest

Zune News Trifecta

Microsoft’s Zune Announcement

Zune Officially Announced

Minor Zune Rumor Update: Possible Launch Month

That Blu-rayin’ is Hard, Sez Microsoft

Zune Getting a Little Satellite Radio Love?

Microsoft to Develop Cricket Umpiring Technologies

Microsoft Approaching iPod Manufacturers For Zune Accessories

Microsoft Zune Update

Microsoft Ends Support of Windows 98 Today

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