There's been rumors flying around, that Bungie makers of the Game Halo, is leaving Microsoft and is going to set out, to stake a claim in the gaming world to become independent company. An issued press release from Microsoft states that Bungie is about to to "embark on a path to become an independent company." Bungie, a company owned by Microsoft has been making loads of money and with the recent success of Halo 3, in my opinion they're well-equipped to be independent, Good for us gamers, we should expect the same kind of commitment and focus on the Xbox Platform and as well as opening up to other gaming platforms too. As Harold Ryan, studio head for Bungie said, ...
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If there’s anything Windows users need to fear right now, it would be that Windows is actually updating itself without the user’s permission, and even if the user has opted not to have Windows updates. In case it hasn’t sunk in, I’m telling you again, Windows, whether Vista or XP, is imposing updates onto your system without your permission.
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Some weeks back, Google jumped at Microsoft for - or so the charge goes - making it difficult for third-party providers to implement desktop search solutions - in Windows Vista. Microsoft responded by promising a change in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 where desktop search options will be included in the "Program Defaults" control panel option. From here you can select built-in search, Google Desktop Search and whatnot. Microsoft insists that native search indexing is too baked into the core operating system that it's impossible to shut it down altogether, but a link alongside each window's search box results which they will be providing should compensate. End of story? Not just yet. Google, probably thinking it has one-upped Microsoft, tries ...
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While everyone was still reeling from the iPhone's release, Microsoft had unveiled a project that is up to, or above Steve Jobs' caliber in terms of innovativeness. Announcing, Microsoft Surface.
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Microsoft as promised that the total repair bill for the clearly faulty Xbox360 has reached the golden billion - and that they'll pick up the bill. The actual failure rates for a new console should be around 5% or less to be seen as acceptable. Whilst Microsoft has not revealed figures some are citing it to be a lot closer to 33% for Microsoft's latest console. So what on Earth is going wrong? One of the issues could be the factor where the processor graphics card is made. These sorts of extremely fragile items tend to require a clean room (a sterile environment) during their fabrication process. This is to ensure that all no air or ...
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If you happen to have lived your early- to mid-teen years in the late 90's, you realize those years have greatly influenced your habits both online and offline. This was the height of the first dot-com era, when Yahoo! and Hotmail doled it out on a battle for audience share. Incidentally, this was also the time when people were weaned away from Eudora and the now-forgotten Netscape Messenger, among others, and the new age of web mail has dawned. And it wasn't a very bad thing. Browsers were able to cope up with their new role as desktop mail replacement clients. Fast forward to 2004 and Google unleashes Gmail with extensive use of AJAX, and it seemed like desktop mail is ...
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There were many interesting things to discover and enjoy at this year's D conference, D5. One such example was Microsoft Surface. But surely the biggest highlight of the event was the interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for the first time in twenty years. Paying Tribute Before turning into the two icons representing the two biggest rivals in the computer industry, Bill and Steve were first and foremost pioneers and visionaries whose work catapulted them and their companies into great success. D5's interview quickly reminds us to cease the hostilities if at least for one night, and simply be in awe ...
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For those of you familiar with my blog, you'll know there are plenty of things I despair about in gaming today. This has included everything from continuous, yearly updates through to the stupidity of enemy AI. One thing I haven't complained about in a while though is multiplayer gaming. This is because I haven't ventured beyond split screen in a long time. Without sounding like a dinosaur, I remember early networked versions of Quake played at school. I also remember how frustrating and technical they could be just to get set up. Don't even get me started on latency, ping and hacking the game. Of course, things got better. Just look at how ...
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That doesn't look like a black Macbook to me :P This past week I went back to school, so to speak, as I ripped my laptop apart and gave it its busiest week yet. Below, we assume that the reader knows that (1) yes, Apple has moved out of PPC and into the x86 platform; (2) it is possible to run Windows on Apple hardware, and that it is likewise true that the Mac OS can be made to run on off-the-shelf, non-Apple hardware; and (3) OS X is based off Darwin, whose native boot loader supports BIOS, unlike Apple's EFI setup ...
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If you've been using your computer for sometime now (what an understatement!), you might have heard at least one of the three big companies, Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun. Your first computer was probably a PC---a DOS- or Windows-based personal computer---so you've probably heard of Microsoft already. As for the other two, I've become aware of them about the same time, during high school: Adobe specializes in graphics software, with Acrobat and Photoshop as its most familiar products. Sun, on the other hand, aside from being a notable hardware company, it is also behind Java, one of the most popular programming languages ever. The RIA Battle A few years ago it would be difficult to see how ...
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