Bill Gates unveiled the new ‘Live Anywhere’ service Tuesday at a press event prior to the kickoff of E3 in Los Angeles. Check out the video of how the service will work between an Xbox 360 and a PC running Windows Vista. No matter what platform (Xbox, Vista and Windows Mobile) you are in, you can connect to Xbox Live service. Thats a good news for PC users. Microsoft, also showed the audience the upcoming Xbox 360 HD DVD player, as well as some tattoos to indicate Grand Theft Auto 4 is on its way.#.#.
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Warner Brothers is about to announce its decision that it will make hundreds of movies and television shows available for purchase over the Internet using BitTorrent software. The agreement between Warner Brothers and BitTorrent is an unusual deal between a major Hollywood studio and a company whose file-sharing technology has raised the ire of the movie industry. The service will begin sometime this summer, with prices beginning at about $1 for some television programs and increasing to about the price of a DVD or video rental for full-length movies.#.
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The wait for Microsoft’s delayed Windows Vista could be even longer than expected, according to a research report issued this week by research group Gartner Inc. A Microsoft spokeswoman however claims that everything is on schedule with its march announcement.
Vista is the first major overhaul of its operating system, which sits on 90 percent of the world’s computers and accounts for nearly a third of Microsoft’s total revenue, since Microsoft rolled out Windows XP nearly five years ago.
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David Weiss shares an excellent virtual tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab and tell’s what it’s like to work in the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft.. That’s freakin’ impressive!
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