Microsoft Refutes Rumors of Internal Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive
Considering most companies have a policy of not addressing rumors, Microsoft sure has been a nattering Nancy lately. It appears that reports of Redmond including an internal HD DVD drive in the Xbox 360 console (as opposed to the external drive which they announced earlier this year) were wildly off base. A representative from the…
MS Dumping WinFS
Oh, WinFS, we hardly knew ye! Sure, I was always a FAT32 guy, but WinFS promised to be… umm… a filesystem for Windows Vista. It was supposed to be great because like each file would be an object and that would make things so cool like allowing you to use inheritance and like meta-data and……
No Xbox 360 Price Drop After All?
Rumors pointed to a $100 price drop for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 last week, but now it turns out that the Internet may have lied to us yet again. The latest word from “insiders” who claim to be “in-the-know” have refuted such price drop claims, meaning you’ll have to pay the full $399 for the foreseeable…
The Poor Man’s Windows Vista: No Upgrading Necessary
Windows Vista’s not due for a few more months—the BETA notwithstanding— but that doesn’t mean that you can’t add all those spiffy, new age visual effects to your current Windows XP system. With a combination of several software tools, some elbow grease and a little bit of luck, your XP box can look just like…
Microsoft Enslaves Transmeta Engineers, Building Portable XBox
According to Dean Takahashi, author of The XBox 360 Uncloaked, half of the 360 hardware team is now working on a portable XBox along and that Transmeta has dedicated 30 engineers to do Redmond’s bidding. No “real” information yet, but with all the fake mock-ups and Origami hype, we’re not holding our breath. One interesting…
Microsoft to Do the Robot
Strangely enough, Microsoft is working on a robotics toolbox for programmers to create Windows powered automatons. They are funding a lab called the Center for Innovative Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (Go Tartans!) and should be creating BSODing help droids in the next fifty years. Could this be Bill Gates’ attempt to create a team…