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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

Xbox 360 Elite

Digital Living Is Microsoft's new Xbox 360 a PS3 killer or is Sony's console the king of the hill?

11 May 2007, 16:08

Halo 2 starter kit

Digital Living Dual-wielding is obviously the biggest addition to the Halo gameplay formula in Halo 2: with it, you can mix and match up to five weapons (the SMG, magnum, plasma rifle, plasma pistol and needler) in either hand, taking advantage of their peculiar...

13 July 2005, 17:38

Microsoft's Media Center mansion

Digital Living The UK arm of Microsoft has rented a gorgeous £5m west London pad in which to showcase its own and its partners' products. The project's manager, Microsoft's Windows marketing bod Simon Darby, reckons the kit in the mHome cost under £16,000, and...

2 June 2005, 18:10

Which Vista version is for me?

Digital Living My friend has been telling me how good the new Microsoft Vista operating system is, but I'm confused. As you can see from the product comparison table on the Microsoft Web site, Vista Ultimate is the edition that does absolutely everything -- but...

7 February 2007, 13:45

Windows XP SP2 nightmares

Digital Living If you don't use Automatic Update, you can regularly head to the Windows Update site to scout out fixes, such as this month's security patches (Microsoft releases regular updates on the second Tuesday of each month).

13 May 2005, 16:27

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living His Billness comes on and outlines Microsoft's plans for the next year, and generally makes everyone feel special with his presence. Last year's keynote was embarrassing: pretty much every real Microsoft product demonstrated failed, and the company...

6 January 2006, 9:57

Mac OS X vs Windows Vista

Digital Living The rows recently stepped up a gear with Apple adding fuel to the argument with its new advertising campaign, while Microsoft has applied liberal amounts of 'Wow' to its new Vista OS. Microsoft should be able to keep its OS safe by now, but out of...

Tags: count, land, flip, forces

27 April 2007, 16:34

Tech support for your parents

Digital Living Option 1: Use Microsoft's own remote control console. The system is then getting the important security updates Microsoft sends out. Microsoft Word might just be called "Microsoft. Consider doing so whether or not they ask you!

11 May 2005, 12:43

Apple Newton vs Samsung Q1 UMPC

Digital Living It comes with Microsoft Office as standard, so you can start cranking out Word documents the minute you switch it on. The Q1, and more specifically the UMPC concept, is the brainchild of Microsoft and Intel, so it's no surprise that it'll run...

Tags: battery life, microsoft office, pen, tap

27 July 2006, 17:39

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living The heat is onNapster is feeling the heat in the media and blogosphere right now, and I'm sure the record labels are none too happy about their music slipping from Napster and Microsoft's 'secure' environment.

9 May 2005, 15:48

Leaving Las Vegas

Digital Living I spoke to someone at the Microsoft keynote who'd never seen Bill Gates in the flesh before, and who was amazed that Gates in person came across as such a geek. The fortunes of both standards are also now inextricably linked to the future of the...

11 January 2006, 15:45

Google's word processor does the write thing

Digital Living How then to explain the commanding figure of Microsoft Word, slayer of WordPerfect, top of the heap, the product of decades of market-slave research in the user dungeons of Redmond, stuffed with intricate and useless features and retailing for...

14 August 2006, 13:07

Samsung Q1

Digital Living The Samsung Q1 is one of the world's first implementations of Microsoft's Origami project, and one of a new breed of computer known as the ultra-mobile PC. Does it float your boat, or is this an experiment that's likely to fail?

19 May 2006, 16:53

CeBIT 2006: It's all about the stuff

Digital Living We're expecting to see everything from Microsoft's new Origami device to giant LCD monitors with 8 million pixels, music phones with 8GB hard drives, keyboards that roll up and Webcams that change the colour of your skin.

8 March 2006, 15:02