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Wow… you heard the plans from Microsoft [MSFT] that they were going to launch a retail store, a la Apple [AAPL], going as far as to woo Apple Retail Store employees, especially managers, from Apple. And with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has executed their plan with their first outlet in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Management Perspective
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Coming soon from Infinity Ward and Microsoft [MSFT], in addition to the game itself, will be the Modern Warfare 2 limited edition Xbox 360 Elite, with a new custom paint scheme, and a 250 GB hard disk, which surpasses the standard 120 GB hard disk shipped with regular Xbox 360 Elite consoles. In fact, the [...]
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For those of you who are old enough to remember the monumental three-way product/platform wars between a variety of different players, as well as the various face-offs between heated contenders, you can often slot the threesters into that ol’ Good-Bad-Ugly trifecta.
Perhaps not this time, however.
Apple’s [AAPL] Snow Leopard OS release on August 28, 2009 has [...]
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Remember when I just had to get an Xbox 360 Elite Edition to replace my first Xbox 360 that unfortunately suffered a RROD event?
Well, Microsoft [MSFT] has definitely come a long way since then, offering to correct their RROD warranty policies to reflect the wider impact of various hardware failure conditions.
Now, to really get more [...]
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Larry posted the news earlier today about how the Halo 3: ODST “Transport” vehicle will be making the rounds at several Gamestop outlets, starting today. This gives some lucky folks the opportunity to try out some of the game, and possibly even win some prizes, while getting the word out about the new upcoming game [...]
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Microsoft [MSFT] and Nokia are finalizing an agreement to augment Nokia (particularly Symbian/S60-based) phones and smart devices into becoming viable business-grade devices, or even components in functional corporate meshes.
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If you recall my previous discussion about Microsoft’s [MSFT] positive about-face decision to honor E 74 Red-Ring-of-Death (RROD) hardware failures as covered under their extended three-year warranty, I mentioned that the company would be refunding people who had paid for the repairs prior to the announcement.
Yesterday, as I was browsing my credit card statements, I [...]
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As some of you already know, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE online service will be experiencing a major scheduled outage for maintenance purposes at 3:01 AM on Tuesday, June 16, 2009.
The bulletins floating around about it, like from Major Nelson’s site, mention that the outage may be as long as twenty-four (24) hours (!!!), so I [...]
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You may have seen the TV commercial for this thing by now. It starts out interestingly enough, with talk about how it is time to get liberated, with imagery of people doing different things, and what appears to be vacation spots that you may like to try and venues that you would like to see.
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Remember when I had that heart-wrenching Xbox 360 console failure that was a serious general hardware failure? It was definitely an E 74 error, and when I researched it, I realized that it was not covered by Microsoft’s [MSFT] three-year warranty for the Red Right of Death errors, because they were limiting that coverage to [...]
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