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There’s not much information to report, but while Steve Balmer was at the University of Washington, he was was asked about how Microsoft planned on tackling large-screen TVs.  He replied:

For that big screen device … there’s no diversity. You get exactly the Xboxes that we build for you. We may have more form factors in [...]

Talk about success: in just four short months, Microsoft has managed to sell an astounding 90 million copies of Windows 7, its latest operating system.
Microsoft CFO, Peter Klein, announced this astonishing figure at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Telecom Conference earlier this week in San Francisco noting the operating system’s “terrific momentum.”
In case you’re [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series is now said to have three different chassis.
The first one is the pocky box that seems to be going for the ultra-simple user interface that everybody saw at launch day, and is being toted around as a better iPhone.  It supports a massive capacitive multi-touchscreen.  Its packing a minimum of a [...]

Although Natal is supposed to be one of the biggest inventions of 2010 (ranking higher than the AIDS vaccine and teleportation according to TIME), there is one major deficiency that has caught the eye of nearly every person who got a hands-on with the device.  Project Natal experiences a very distinct  lag  in which your [...]

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Yesterday at Macworld, Microsoft announced its newest edition of its popular Office for Mac suite: Office for Mac 2011.  Users can expect a slough of changes in Office for Mac 2011 including the death of Entourage as an email client, as well as many new user-friendly features that make the software suite more “Mac-like”, and [...]

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)confirmed today that Microsoft will introduce their latest mobile phone OS on Monday at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona.
Analysts expect for Steve Ballmer to announce the release at the Windows Phone press conference, scheduled for 3PM (local time). The WSJ has reason to believe that Windows Phone 7 will have an [...]

The fact that many technology users have been hesitant to upgrade their PCS to Windows 7 hasn’t hampered the Windows 8 rumor mill– it’s running strong as ever!
Today, we heard rumors that Windows 8, or Windows.next as the devs are calling it, is supposed to be like nothing Microsoft has ever made before… If [...]

Don’t panic, your original Xbox will still work, it just won’t work online.  Microsoft has said they are taking all Xboxes, and all Xbox 1 games off of Xbox live on April 15th.  This doesn’t mean just v1 Xboxes, rather, it includes all Xbox v1 games, including those played on the Xbox 360 using backwards compatibility, [...]

In this first installment of Techtrackr Weekly, I talk about the iPad, Quarterly Reports, and some other interesting news, as well as WebOS 1.4, and the Mobile World Conference in February.

Bill gates has hopped on the Twitter band wagon but has “got a lot to learn about Twitter”.  He has cranked out five of those 140 character alerts through Twitter, and has 223,36… 223,394… you get the point.  He is getting more followers every second, and intends to use the service to keep people up [...]