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Microsoft Announces Next Wave of Xbox 360 Titles

Microsoft announced that the next round of titles in the Xbox 360 Platinum Hits library will be available March 16 in North America, Latin America, Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Next month’s Platinum Hits releases include games from the industry’s leading publishers, including Activision Publishing Inc.’s “Call of Duty 2,” Electronic Arts Inc.’s “EA SPORTS(TM) Fight Night Round 3,” Ubisoft Entertainment’s “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter” and 2K Sport’s “Top Spin 2.”

Next month’s Platinum Hits release, starting at an estimated retail price of $29.99 (U.S.), will include the following titles in the Americas:
– “Battlefield 2: Modern Combat(TM)” (Electronic Arts)
– “Burnout(TM) Revenge” (Electronic Arts)
– “Call of Duty 2″ (Activision)
– “Dead or Alive 4″ (TECMO Inc.)
– “Fight Night Round 3″ (Electronic Arts)
– “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter” (Ubisoft)
– “Top Spin 2″ (2K Sports)
– “Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis” (Rockstar Games)

Source: http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/tech/6002641.html

23 February 2007 in News & xbox | Comments (0)

Microsoft US$20 million R&D center in Shanghai

MICROSOFT Corp will set up a US$20 million MSN research and development center in Shanghai, the first of its kind in the group’s overseas market, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.

The software giant aims to strengthen instant message business in China as it is still lagging behind domestic rival Tencent (QQ), industry insiders said.

“Microsoft has purchased a 90,000-square-meter site in the industry zone, and it should be a big project,” said a source at the Shanghai Zizhu Science-based Industrial Park, who declined be identified.

The industrial park is in the southwest of the city, and Intel and Shanghai Wicresoft, a joint venture between Microsoft and the Shanghai government, have set up facilities there.

10 February 2007 in News | Comments (0)

Microsoft prepares Zune Phone to rival iPhone

On Monday, Microsoft filed a mystery application with the FCC for an enigmatic wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. Sounds like a VoiP device, right?Not really. The device is described as being used for â€œconsumer broadband access and networking,â€ which doesn’t sound like vanilla VoIP to me. Microsoft goes on to say that the device would use OFDM as its communications protocol, not WiFi or Bluetooth. Well, why not? The standard OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) is a modulation scheme that is used widely in upcoming 4G standards of the future. But with wireless access gaining momentum, and the all-around arms race for bandwidth, 4G starts to make sense, in a crazy, crazy kind of way.

The idea of a next-gen, high-bandwidth capable phone sounded to these ears like the Zune Phone, so we did some poking, called some sources, and waded into the wonderful world of Zune. One thing led to another, and we’ve determined that there is a whole lot more going on at Bear Creek in Redmond than we figured.

10 February 2007 in News | Comments (0)

Introversion Working With Microsoft for Darwinia Vista

Introversion Software has announced that it has been working with Microsoft to release a Vista version of their title Darwinia.

Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, available to the consumer since the 30th January 2007. Amongst its many new features, Vista will deliver a new set of specific gaming features that will make it easier for gamers to access, play and manage games.

10 February 2007 in News | Comments (0)

Vista Follow-up Likely in 2009

With Vista just out the door, Microsoft Corp. is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product’s core components.

That would be a much faster turn-around than Vista, which shipped more than five years after Windows XP, but Vista was exceptional, said Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Microsoft originally planned for its XP follow-up to include a number of radical changes to Windows, including a new file system and a reinvented user interface, but after the company’s products were hit by widespread worm outbreaks in 2003, Microsoft redirected almost its entire engineering effort to locking down Windows with the XP Service Pack 2 release.

10 February 2007 in News | Comments (0)

Microsoft to launch new OS for mobiles phones - Windows Mobile 6

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled its new Windows operating system for mobile phones, Mobile 6, incorporating several features of Windows Vista, including HTML email support and additional security features.The software will be available in the second quarter of 2007, the company said. It will support Windows Exchange Server 2007 and will also have Windows Live, which allows instant messaging with more than one person at a time, while it can send a file or image or record and send voice messages. Users will also be able to view, navigate and edit documents in Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint formats.