Microsoft and LucasArts have joined forcesthe force and have just unveiled a limited edition Xbox and Kinect bundle at Comic-con. These guys know there are enough nerds and geeks in North America to make this work and you better believe people will be camping outside the doors of stores to be the first to purchase this.
The package will include a RD-D2 themed 320 GB Xbox 360 game console featuring sounds from the Star Wars films, a Kinect sensor in white, and a golden C-3PO themed Xbox 360 wireless controller. This nerdy package will also have a copy of “Kinect Adventures” as well as a copy of “Kincect Star Wars”. The Star Wars game for the Kinect will allow the gamer to experience what Jedi training is and how to use the Force all without any controllers or devices on hand. Read More →
Torrents of Microsoft COFEE have been springing up everywhere and the hype is ridiculous. Obviously, it’s illegal to pirate software. Furthermore, the EULA for this particular software is limits it’s use to law enforcement officials only. Other than that, most everything else you’ve heard about this stuff is false.
COFEE, or Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a set of tools and a GUI that Microsoft has created to assist undereducated law enforcement officials with basic computer forensics.
An officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in less than 10 minutes—to use a pre-configured COFEE device.
This is not some wild, as-seen-on-tv, NSA creation. It’s just a compilation of tools (about 150 or so) for information and evidence gathering. A rootkit and some automation. Most everything included with COFEE is available, in some form, all over the internet.
The YoYo recovery process over @ Danger may be coming to an end. Microsoft announced that it should have most contact information restored this week, with other stuff like to-do’s, notes and photos “shortly thereafter”. Although I’m sure there are a few Sidekick users left, I wonder if this isn’t too little too late?
Microsoft is releasing 13 updates (of which 8 have been deemed “critical”) and Adobe will be releasing an update to plug a zero-day flaw that’s now being actively exploited.
Don’t turn off that Sidekick! As if the ongoing Sidekick data disruption wasn’t bad enough, it now seems Danger, Inc. (Owned by Microsoft) may have lost your online data. Users that turn off their sidekicks, or let the battery run out, will probably loose the contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists and photos still on the phone.
I find it hard to believe that something like this could happen — but it seems that Danger, Inc. has lived up to it’s name… T-Mobile issued the following statement:
Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power.
Lots of digging on LinkedIn turned up some interesting info on Windows 8 (which may or may not pan out). Ars details the findings of Windows 8 News, along with a lengthy write up on all of the current info churning in the Windows 8 rumor mill.
A LinkedIn profile, which has already been taken down, for a Robert Morgan, Senior Research & Development at Microsoft, has shone a sliver of light on the possibility of 128-bit support coming to Windows 8.
You’d think that the majority of people that use a computer and a web browser know what a web browser is… Guess not.
“Some folks at Google” decided to create a little website to help those that can’t tell the difference between a PC, a browser and a web site.
Wonder if some folks at Microsoft could come up with one of these to help my parents understand the difference between Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office… That would be sweet.
Yep, thats right. We’re almost 100% sure that we’re Windows 7 Compatible.
This new sticker will appear on devices that “have passed Microsoft designed tests for compatibility and reliability with Windows 7.” Unlike the “Vista Capable” sticker scheme that merely required a machine be capable of running Vista Home Basic, the Windows 7 stickers is supposed to indicate that you’ll be able to run ALL versions, including 64bit versions, of Windows 7.
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