Watching Windows Weekly this week I think the most confusing thing about “Xbox Live TV” seems to be that people don’t know what it is called. Microsoft don’t mention a single name for this new service in their press release but I don’t think there should be confusion about that, I think actually that these [...]

With news that Microsoft will be bringing Xbox Live to Windows 8 it got me thinking about what this could mean for Xbox Live and how it will change the service. Currently Xbox Live is available on the Xbox 360 and on Windows Phone, however they aren’t the same kind of service at all. On [...]

I have previously looked at how well Microsoft is achieving its own aim of “3 screens an the cloud” and thought I’d provide and update following recent announcements and rumours. I am obviously looking at the 4 different platforms along with 5 services. These 5 services can be summarised as: – Windows Live: Personal – [...]

Today Microsoft announced many new features for Xbox 360 some of which available now but most things coming out later this year. In this article I will go through some of the new features sharing with you some of my thoughts on them. Microsoft kicked off the announcement with a live demo of Call of [...]

Yesterday, amid all the excitement, I wrote a quick blog post collecting some of my tweets outlining ideas I had had about where Skype could be integrated effectively into existing Microsoft products. Well today I thought I would expand on some of those ideas and share some others thoughts about the deal. So first up [...]

When rumours first started late last week about Zune being killed I was very much against such a notion, perhaps even in denial. However over the past few days it has become more apparent that Microsoft is no longer keen to mention Zune at all and with a few hints from people I am pretty [...]

Last night Microsoft held its CES keynote presented by Steve Ballmer, there were some interesting announcements and some disappointing omissions. You can watch the keynote and highlights at the Microsoft News Center. First off Ballmer spoke about the Xbox and announced that in the Spring an update will be released for the Xbox 360 that [...]

I don’t own an Xbox (although that is something I am hoping to change) and wasn’t sure how I would find the Xbox Live integration on Windows Phone 7. Well I can safely say I love it. I have become quite addicted to playing Bejewelled Live when I want to pass the time and its [...]

A few weekends back I travelled the length of South England and back again. A few of my friends from school were meeting at Exeter University where a few more of my school mates current attend and so I thought it would be great to meet up with them. On route to Exeter it made [...]

Since the beginning of this year I have been writing a series of posts looking at how close Microsoft is to succeeding in its “3 screens and the cloud” strategy. Since Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and a few other products have now been released I thought I would update the numbers from March when I [...]