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Have you gone out shopping this Black Friday yet? While you have all weekend to get those discounts, you might not be so sure of prices. The Microsoft Store for one, is offering deals on gadgets, games and software, and here are some details on their free Windows Phone 7 [...]

Microsoft is making a big push to promote its retail stores, which carry various products, such as peripherals, Windows-powered notebook computers, Xbox 360 consoles, games, software, and the like. This Black Friday, the Microsoft Store is offering big discounts.

Apple and Microsoft are working on adding e-wallet capabilities to their respective platforms by 2012. With NFC, more users can enjoy tap-to-pay at various retail stores and establishments around the country and worldwide.

With more than a month to go until the most important electronics show of the year kicks off in Las Vegas there’s already talk about certain products that are about to be unveiled in early 2012. Microsoft’s upcoming Office suite, currently dubbed as Office 15, is expected to be demoed [...]

Microsoft is gearing up with promoting Kinect for Windows as the next big revolution in computing user interfaces. Along with praise for motion-detecting technologies, a top-ranking Microsoft executive also criticized Siri as an example of hyping up an old technology to market a new product.

The Kinect for Windows team has announced that Microsoft is releasing PC-specific Kinect hardware in 2012, along with a Kinect SDK that will enable developers to build all sorts of apps for Kinect. Will the emergence of motion-based interfaces eventually overtake touchscreens in terms of intuitiveness in computing user interfaces?

It’s pretty clear by now that the current generation of consoles is winding down, and as expected, tons of rumors about when the next consoles will land have been circulating lately. The latest batch told us that projects for the next Xbox and the next PlayStation are already underway and [...]

We’ve been following Microsoft’s designs on the streaming video market for some time now, and it’s become steadily more clear that they want to turn the Xbox 360 into an all-around entertainment hub. They’ve been moving in that direction for some time now, incorporating things like Bing and Kinect into [...]

You’ve all heard of a computer desk–anyone who’s been to Ikea, Sauder, or OfficeMax lately has seen dozens of them–and you’ve heard of a desktop computer. But now, the folks at ExoPC are showing off a little something new: the ExoDesk, or what may well be the first desk computer.

The new Windows Phone devices are slated to come out this holiday season, and as part of Microsoft’s promotions, the company built an enormous WP replica dab smack in the middle of New York’s Herald Square. The 6-story mammoth WP replica is meant to complement Microsoft’s launch of 4 new [...]