Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts

Friday, July 13, 2007

Microsoft Admits *ALL* Xbox360's Are Defective

If you thought that Sony was the only console manufacturer having a really bad day, guess again. After many months of public complaints and outcries, Microsoft has publically admitted that *ALL* (as in every single one ever sold) Xbox360's have a design defect that can lead to their failure.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: The new Microsoft Surface

The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technolog



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Saturday, April 28, 2007

My 2 Month Old Xbox 360 - It's Dead

My 2 Month Old Xbox 360 Dead
Dead... 2 months old and it's dead...

Maybe I should have bought a PS3 instead. I have hardware from Sony that's still working after 14 years, and Microsoft's hardware can't last 2 months?? :(

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Microsoft Moves into Robotics

Microsoft believes the demand for consumer, research, and military robots will grow significantly--and it wants to own the market, with Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) and the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE).

MSRS is a visual programming environment, similar to the LabView-based software provided with LEGO's Mindstorms NXT kit. It allows users to drag and drop box-like symbols for simple, low-level behaviors and services (such as accessing a sensor) and string them together to create complex robotic programs.

MSRS also uses the AGEIA PhysX physics engine, which powers many PC games, to provide a visual simulation of the robot and its environment, complete with realistic friction, drag, gravity, and other factors.