If that's not enough syrupy corporate synergy for you, Microsoft's X-Box platform is featuring another new track by the band, "Sheckler's Revenge, " on the just-released Rock Band 2 game.
Leap Motion, the company behind the Leap Motion controller, a gesture recognition system for personal computers (starting with Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows), has had a passionate group of developers on board from the start.
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This kit includes a yoke, a throttle quadrant, rudder pedals and a copy of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X Deluxe.
It combines three elements: Superscape's Virtual Reality Toolkit, the images of people, buildings and vehicles, and AVI movie sequences running via Microsoft's Direct-X interface.
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Even those using Macs will be hard pressed to justify the additional cost if they already have the OS X version of Microsoft's Office Suite on their machines, which is far superior to the Wintel version.
Moving on, your understanding of application virtualization is hopelessly inaccurate, I challenge you to name any application virtualization product that can take a copy of Microsoft Office and make it run on OS X or Android.
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Rather than abandon these users, Microsoft has provided one more major update for 7.x users.
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Now, li ke Adam Hartung I think Microsoft could and should make more of its relationship with the X-Box audience.
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And it matters to Microsoft that buyers are turning in ever greater numbers to OS X-, iOS-, and Android-based devices.
The idea of private space travel as the next frontier for adventurers has gained enormously popularity within the last decade, particularly after SpaceShipOne, financed by Microsoft co-founder PaulAllenPaul Allen, won the coveted Ansari X Prize in 2004.
This week Microsoft announced that its Entourage e-mail client for Mac OS X, which works with Exchange, will be available by sometime this summer.
Microsoft clarified that devices involved included the Motorola Droid 2, the Droid X, and the Backflip.
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Users of Mac OS X will soon have an e-mail program that supports Microsoft Exchange.
Profiles are built in for popular apps such as Microsoft Office, Media Player, QuickTime Player, browsers and Mac OS X.
Microsoft is discontinuing the Windows Marketplace for Mobile service for Windows Mobile 6.x.
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Now to be fair to Microsoft, it has delivered a few successful hardware products over the years including X-Box and more recently the Kinect.
The piece also states supposedly final retail hardware specs for Microsoft's next game console, including a 64-bit D3D11.x 800MHz GPU, an 8-core x64 1.6GHz 4MB L2 CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB of on-board memory, USB 3.0, HDMI-out, and an optical drive for 50GB discs.
The piece also states supposedly final retail hardware specs for Microsoft's next game console, including a 64-bit D3D11.x 800GHz GPU, an 8-core x64 1.6GHz 4MB L2 GPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB of on-board memory, USB 3.0, HDMI-out, and an optical drive for 50GB discs.
Microsoft recommends you review the applications or games installed on your Windows Mobile 6.x phone and install any available updates in advance of the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace service shut-down on May 9, 2012.
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Microsoft can then release a newer version of xbox with upgraded hardware and newer version of Direct X every year or every few years.
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The Microsoft-owned messaging platform has started testing what amounts to a video voicemail feature on OS X, Android and iOS, something that had already been hinted at in its updated TOS. Why those operating systems at first, without any word about Windows or Windows Phone, we're unsure.
As video game blog Kotaku reported back in November, Microsoft and Nintendo have rolled out new ecologically friendly cases for games found on their Nintendo Wii and X-Box 360 consoles.
Another major milestone for the industry has been a growing interest and investment from entrepreneurs like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who financed the development of SpaceShipOne, winner of the Ansari X Prize, and British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the space tourism company, Virgin Galactic.
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