Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

BSA Gives £10,000 Reward to Software Piracy Whistleblower

The Business Software Alliance has a bounty program that rewards software piracy whistleblowers. The latest beneficiary of BSA’s bounty program, which offers up to $1 million in reward money, is said to have received £10,000 ($15,300) for blowing the lid of his former employer’s use of...
September 7th, 2010 | Software | Read More

Microsoft: Windows 7 Family Pack Available Again Soon (While Supplies Last)

Microsoft will once again begin selling Windows 7 Family Packs, which ship with three upgrade licenses for Windows 7 Home Premium for $150. This is the same promotion Microsoft ran when Windows 7 launched in October of last year and it didn’t take long for copies to sell out. Like before, Microsoft...
September 2nd, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More

Windows Phone 7 Released to Manufacturing

Microsoft has announced today that the final version of Windows Phone 7 is complete, and has been released to manufacturing. According to Redmond, this new mobile operating system is the most extensively tested Microsoft has ever produced. The engineering team has thousands of devices running automated...
September 1st, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More

Microsoft Raises Price of Xbox Live Subscriptions and Ire of Gamers Everywhere

Hi there, valued Xbox Live Gold customer! Are there any sharp objects nearby? How about firearms? We’re just the messenger, after all, and would rather not be shot for this one. So, are you calm? Have you followed the late, great Bruce Lee’s teachings and become as water? Ok then, here it...
August 31st, 2010 | Software | Read More

Windows Live Ditching Sync in Favor of Mesh

Microsoft has never had a unified approach to online storage and sync, but it appears as though this is finally going to change. In the latest beta release of Windows Live Essentials 2011 Microsoft released a utility called Live Sync to help users manage folders across more than one PC, but this is...
August 29th, 2010 | Software | Read More

Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, nine others over patent infringement

By Ed Oswald, Betanews Microsoft co-founder and former executive Paul Allen filed a suit against 11 tech companies on Friday, accusing them of infringement over patents he acquired from the now defunct Internal Research. While Allen had invested in the company, he never participated in the development...
August 27th, 2010 | Policy & Law | Read More

Halo: Reach hacked, leaked weeks before anticipated release date

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Halo: Reach, a prequel to Microsoft’s billion-dollar Halo first person shooter series was scheduled to launch on September 14 worldwide, but a pre-release version of the game leaked early and has found its way across the Web. The title, however, wasn’t kept under...
August 23rd, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More