Kudos to Microsoft, which has tricked more people into buying the Xbox 360 then it did the original Xbox. Redmond has sold—well, is projected to sell through the end of this month—some 25 million Xbox 360s. It took the original Xbox, which launched in late 2001, five years to reach that number.

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Microsoft will relaunch Windows Live Search under a new brand sometime early next year, says a source within the company. What we don’t know is what that new brand will be, although a few names have been thrown around. According to our source, a “final” decision has been made, but very few people inside of [...]

When Apple started running the anti-Vista commercial (above) mocking Microsoft for spending $300 million on Vista’s own ad campaign instead of on fixing its problems, I called it hypocritical:

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Looks like the NXE is out for those who signed up for a preview account and Netflix has confirmed that there will be 300 HD titles in the new streaming system. Looks like Christmas came early!

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Facebook’s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended this year.
Those ties may explain why Facebook was willing to ignore its own privacy policy in March 2008 and give Microsoft access to Facebook user [...]

Movie rental service Netflix (NFLX) has hired a new executive to bring its Internet streaming service to more living rooms.
Netflix plans to announce Thursday that it’s hired Gregory K. Peters as VP of partner products. He will be in charge of partnerships with gadget companies to offer devices like Blu-ray players and set-top boxes that [...]

You know the upcoming New Xbox Experience that has so many people excited for some reason? Turns out that Microsoft call centers are bracing themselves for NXE-induced red rings of death. So while you’re gaining a [fancy?] new user interface you may also be losing an Xbox 360. Fun!
It’s like this: Microsoft is afraid that [...]

Steve Ballmer continues to dismiss the idea of acquiring Yahoo–and he’s right to: Doing so would still be a disaster. But if Microsoft wants to be a player in the search business–and its current behavior suggests that it still does–combining its search operations with Yahoo’s is a must.
Search is a scale game. Microsoft still has [...]

Nintendo’s (NTDOY) Wii may still be the hottest game console, but in the first 23 months of each console’s life, Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 owners have bought more games, on average, according to data compiled by gaming Web site Gamasutra.
After 23 months on the market, on average, Xbox 360 owners bought 6.6 games per console, [...]