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Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, in a speech last week on the recession, let slide that a new Xbox is set to be released sometime next year. What some though to be their “project natal”, the new device is set to be “really, really, close to an actuality”. We’ll just have to wait and see though- [...]

Xbox live and parts of xbox.com are going to be down all day today for maintenance from 12:01am to 11:59pm today. While it’s a planned outage by Microsoft, it is sure to upset some students who want to play after just getting off school!
[Via Gizmodo]

Microsoft, after recently releasing what they claim to be one of the fastest browsers, Internet Explorer 8, is starting a new campaign in a charity push to get people to download the new browser.
According to the new site, browserforthebetter.com and other Microsoft sources, the company plans to start donating about $1.15 to food banks for [...]

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, in a video interview with the Fox Business Network, said that “I do not think Bing’s arrival has changed what we are doing.” and also said “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year”.  Schmidt also talked about mobile phones, and said that this is their year. [...]

Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system, currently in a public release candidate test right now, now has an offical release date set for it- October 22nd, 2009. When Microsoft originally said it would be ready for the Christmas season, I guess they were right! Windows Seven’s pricing is not yet available yet, and the free [...]

Microsoft’s Windows Live Search, released just over a year ago in April, is now quietly being filed away while another Microsoft search engine is slowly launching- Bing. Based on the theory by Microsoft that “search has evolved”, Bing isn’t anything special but also comes with a new 411 service by newly Microsoft accquired telephony company [...]