It’s been no secret that original Xbox games and systems have been the vestigial limb holding back much wanted XBL features including raising the limit on our friends list to over 100 or mobile tie-ins, and on April 15 Live access for all of them comes to an end. Even those Xbox Originals downloaded to [...]

It’s a sad tale, if you hear Dick Brass tell it. In a new op-ed for the New York Times, the former Microsoft VP explains how he thinks the Microsoft corporate culture has “never developed a true system for innovation,” and that while the company is obviously strong at the moment, he doesn’t see the [...]

If you are the lucky owner of an uber-fast Intel SSD drive, it might just get better: Intel has just announced an SSD Optimizer firmware update to is 34nm X25-M 160GB SSD that can boost performance by %40 in sequential writes under Windows 7. If you are running under Windows XP or Vista, you can [...]