Microsoft is updating its Windows Phone YouTube app. In a statement to The Verge, the company says it's making some changes to address concerns from Google. "Microsoft updated the Windows Phone YouTube app to address the restricted video and offline video access concerns voiced by Google last week," says a spokesperson. "We ...
Google Engineer Points Out Major Flaw in Windows 7 and 8
on 5.23.13
A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability late Wednesday. "We are aware of claims ...
Microsoft Bringing Xbox One’s Kinect to Windows in 2014
on 5.23.13
Microsoft has clarified that the next iteration of Kinect, the motion tracking peripheral unveiled alongside the Xbox One earlier this week, will be coming to Windows next year. We had previously known that the device would eventually be supported by Windows, but didn’t know when. Unfortunately, Microsoft is keeping quiet ...
Report: Microsoft Working on Windows Phone Integration on Xbox One
on 5.23.13
Hey, you know what we didn't hear about at this week's Xbox One launch? Windows Phone. While Microsoft's mobile platform has only 3 percent market share and a unique connection with Xbox, the company still didn't take a moment during the launch to let Windows Phone draft off of its new, blockbuster set-top box. But that ...
Xbox One Supports 4K Output, Gaming
on 5.22.13
On Wednesday we learned a lot about the Xbox One, the Microsoft next-gen gaming console, but there are some questions that remain unanswered, so I sat down with Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Interactive Entertainment Business, to try to get to the bottom of a few lingering questions and a ...
Xbox One May Be the Best Personal Trainer Ever
on 5.22.13
Yes, the new Xbox One is highly covetable for many reasons. But once you get past the games and the TV integration and the rumbling controllers, you finally land on what might be its most useful purpose: The world's most sophisticated workout gadget. The Xbox is already a decent workout aid; last year we spent some time ...
NFL Sidelines Will Feature Surface Tablets Starting This Season
on 5.22.13
Soon, NFL players will have a better way to see what happened on the last play than tilting their heads back to check out the scoreboard. The National Football League announced a partnership with Microsoft, through which coaches and officials will use Microsoft’s Surface tablets on the sidelines, potentially replacing ...
Xbox One Will Re-Define What We Think ‘Used’ Means
on 5.22.13
The Xbox One is a console that’s likely to kill our idea of what a physical game purchase means. According to a story published on Wired, each game will be installed to your hard drive, and you can then play without the disc in the drive. What happens if you pass the disc to a friend? Well, that’s where things get ...
Skype Messages Aren’t Secure: Microsoft Scans Message Contents
on 5.21.13
If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed. And this can only happen if Microsoft can convert the messages ...
Microsoft Reveals the Xbox One: One Box to Rule Your Living Room
on 5.21.13
Microsoft unveiled its next video game console, the Xbox One, on Tuesday. Unlike Sony, which spent two hours at its PlayStation 4 reveal in February showing just about everything BUT the console, Microsoft put the console, its re-designed controller and updated Kinect camera at the heart of its presentation. Microsoft said ...
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