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Microsoft Xbox review

Reviews Microsoft's Xbox is a Trojan horse. It's clear that, although you don't need a memory card to be able to save games, Microsoft has still figured out ways to make its money back on peripherals. FeaturesWhile Microsoft makes you pay to unlock some...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: microsoft, hard drive, kit, optical

8 December 2004, 23:00 > More matches in Reviews

Microsoft stands firm on Xbox 360 pricing

News Microsoft on Tuesday said it will hold firm on pricing for its Xbox 360 games console, defying widespread expectations that it would respond to a price cut by rival Sony for the PlayStation 3. Instead, Microsoft voiced confidence that a slate of...

12 July 2007, 11:01 > More matches in News

Microsoft Xbox 360

Digital Living Ah, the Xbox 360 -- high-definition gaming in all its glory. With loads of great titles and an HD DVD add-on, is this best way to hi-def heaven?

10 February 2006, 12:55 > More matches in Digital Living

Crave Podcast 86: Microsoft offers free money!

Crave This week's hottest tech news includes Microsoft paying customers to use its Live Search Engine. In other news, the Conservative party is trying to legalise Segways for use on the public roads, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is letting people ask him...

Tags: questions, forums, crave podcast, mini

23 May 2008, 11:00 > More matches in Crave

Crave Podcast 96: Microsoft punks Vista haters

Crave Next, we report on Microsoft's Mojave experiment, which fooled ordinary folks into loving Windows Vista. It's podcast Friday, y'all! Rory Reid returns to the helm after a two week hiatus, to join Nate Lanxon, Kate Macefield and Richard Trenholm for...

Tags: windows vista, podcast, prisoners, fans

1 August 2008, 12:17 > More matches in Crave

Crave TV: Microsoft pushes journalist out of plane

Crave You can call Microsoft many things -- but you definitely can't call it boring. According to Microsoft's public relations guy, the idea was to film us skydiving, and then send our adrenalin levels through the roof by letting us edit the footage in...

11 October 2007, 15:33 > More matches in Crave

Xbox 360 warranty to cost Microsoft $1bn

News Microsoft said on Thursday that it will extend the warranty on the Xbox 360 -- a move that will cost the software behemoth over $1bn -- after an investigation showed the game console can be prone to hardware failures.

6 July 2007, 9:42 > More matches in News

State of Play: Xbox 360

Crave Microsoft has been spraying money at third-party developers and pulled off some major coups, partially because Sony has taken so long coming to market. Microsoft, amazingly, has largely kept its head down, fixed problems when they occurred and kept...

Tags: microsoft, party, dvd player, care

22 November 2006, 10:23 > More matches in Crave

Slow tempo for Zune sales in US

News Though Microsoft's answer to Apple's iPod officially went on sale in the US on Tuesday, the Zune wasn't exactly flying off the shelves in downtown San Francisco, reports CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com.

15 November 2006, 10:06 > More matches in News

News.blog: Sony stole my controller, cries Nintendo

News Who knows if Yarnton's assertion is true, but at least he doesn't have to worry that Microsoft stole the technology. When both Nintendo and Sony showed off motion-sensitive controllers for their forthcoming Wii (formerly the Revolution) and...

22 May 2006, 16:49 > More matches in News

Xbox 360 Wireless Adaptor: Life without the grey cables

Crave If there's anything 'next-gen' about Microsoft's Xbox 360, it has to be the fully integrated online experience. Which is why it's such a shame that Microsoft didn't make the console wireless out of the box.

Tags: microsoft, video files, wireless, gaming

31 January 2006, 10:59 > More matches in Crave

Xbox 360 update: New features galore

Crave As we were settling into our spanking new offices yesterday, we discovered Microsoft is about to unleash a new dashboard update for the Xbox 360. Microsoft has added support for more video formats as well.

Tags: microsoft, xvid, downloading, profile

11 April 2007, 11:40 > More matches in Crave

Zune to bring UK Christmas cheer?

News The Microsoft Zune -- a much-hyped rival to Apple's iPod -- could be available in Europe in time for Christmas 2007. A Microsoft spokesman, however, told CNET.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, the company still has no further information available...

23 January 2007, 10:18 > More matches in News

Xbox 360: The Final Countdown

Crave Microsoft wants 'sell-out' headlines tomorrow, so the ridiculously limited first batch of consoles has already been pre-ordered by eager gamers and canny eBay dealers. Okay, so about ten per cent of you will actually be living the high-definition...

Tags: microsoft, console, racing, high definition

1 December 2005, 10:12 > More matches in Crave

Zune fails to make it into US top ten

News Although Microsoft's Zune captured a decent slice of the US' hard drive audio player market at large retail stores, it failed to crack into the top ten list of models in overall sales, according to market researcher Current Analysis.

5 January 2007, 10:34 > More matches in News