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Microsoft announces the Arcade House Party lineup for XBL
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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:49:53 GMT
Digital Trends - One day, years from now, we will be cleaning out our garage/attic/underwater pods (it could happen…), and discover an old game on a disc. We may then call the kids down to gaze in wonder at the relic in our hands, before throwing it in the trash and laughing about how quaint we used to be.
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Microsoft's Windows battles slack PC sales
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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:38:20 GMT
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp's fiscal second-quarter profit fell very slightly as lagging computer sales to cash-strapped consumers in the United States and Europe hurt its core Windows business.
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Microsoft 2Q beats Street despite soft PC market
(AP)
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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:35:49 GMT
 AP - Microsoft Corp. battled through a weak PC market to post flat earnings in the final quarter of 2011, boosting sales of servers, Xbox games and its Office productivity software while trimming losses at its Bing search engine.
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Microsoft requiring Secure Boot for ARM devices, hamstringing Linux
(Digital Trends)
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Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:19:20 GMT
Digital Trends - As Windows 8 gets closer to reality, more details of Microsoft’s make-it-or-break-it effort to translate its desktop computing success to ARM-driven tablets are emerging. First, Microsoft revealed that ARM-based Windows 8 devices won”t be able to run legacy Windows software—it’ll be the Metro way, or the highway. Now, Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware certification requirements reveal another restriction: Microsoft plans to require ARM-based Windows 8 devices use UEFI secure booting technology, dubbed Secure Boot. Although the requirement is likely intended to protect consumers from firmware attacks and prevent so-called jailbreaks of ARM-based Windows 8 tablets, it will also make it difficult or impossible for owners to use the hardware with non-Windows operating systems, like Linux.
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