I’d say that I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I’ll be honest, I spotted this 1697 sketch while looking through a UFO conspiracy site. And as far as I’m concerned, it’s clearly an ink rendition of two Xbox 360 logos floating in the sky.
This supposedly historical shot was pulled from the 1997 documentary Area 51: Alien [...]

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If you haven’t figured it out by now, Microsoft has two release dates for Windows 7: early 2010 according to its corporate PR stooges and sometime around mid 2009 according to everyone else. The reason for the padding is a fairly transparent attempt to avoid the public opinion fiasco resulting from Vista’s chronic delays. Now [...]

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Here’s an interesting one. That red / black Xbox 360 controller that was showcased back in July is now available to any ole consumer in the US, Canada, Latin America New Zealand and Asia, and it comes bundled with a Play & Charge Kit and red rechargeable battery for $64.99. For whatever reason, Microsoft’s totally [...]

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Microsoft’s been touting its “fastest annual revenue growth since 1999,” which resulted in a princely $60.42 billion dollars in its last fiscal year, but the number that has us rapt? Vista licenses sold since launch about 18 months ago: 180m. Damn, not too shabby a clip — especially considering that they moved 20m licenses moved [...]

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It may finally be starting to move down the availability ladder with computer manufacturers (netbooks and the like aside), but it looks like Microsoft is going to be standing by Windows XP for a good while yet, with it now pledging to support the tried and true OS through 2014. According to Microsoft senior VP [...]

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APPLE has announced that its coming iPhone software update is aimed at winning the hearts of business people and dethroning BlackBerry devices.
Apple teamed up with its competitor Microsoft to increase the iPhone’s email capabilities.
iPhones will be able to receive email, contact and calendar information “pushed” from business computer networks that use Microsoft’s popular Office Exchange [...]

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