If my email inbox is anything to go by, Microsoft has once again gone on a Christmas Xbox Live banning spree, and once again innocent users are caught up in the crossfire.
Not only is the company itself under new leadership, it is having to adapt to a rapidly changing ecosystem where the PC has given ground to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Microsoft has unveiled a new Surface Pro, the follow-on to the Surface Pro 4.
The other day I reported that I was getting emails in from disgruntled Xbox Live users who had been banned by Microsoft for allegedly connecting to the online service using modded consoles even though the consoles were totally unmodified. Today I'm hearing that some of those affected are finally getting somewhere with tech support.
Reports suggest that Microsoft is planning a new assault on the living room with an Xbox-branded set-top box, but players such as Apple and Google are unlikely to give up without a fight.
If you think that DRM that locks you out of a song or movie that you've bought is bad, imagine being locked of document that you created, and being able to do nothing about it until a patch is released.
Less than 24 hours after Microsoft announced a $7.6 billion write-down on its acquisition of Nokia and aggressive layoffs, the tech press is penning the Windows Phone obituaries. Can something better rise from the ashes?
Windows 7 upgrade pricing is too darn expensive. There, I've said it, and I feel better for having that out in the open. And not only is the upgrade pricing expensive, it's overly complicated.
It seems like it took the designers and engineers at Microsoft two and a half years to figure out something that a lot of us already knew - that a small, touch-screen, solid-state media player (just like the iPod touch!) is what people really want in a portable media player.
