I Run Windows 7 Big in Japan
Microsoft is in the final stages of the development process for the next iteration of the Windows client. With RTM planned by the end of July 2009 and worldwide General Availability scheduled for October 22, the Redmond company has unveiled a set of initiatives designed to build up to Windows 7 hitting the shelves.
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6.7.2009 Windows 7 pre-orders sold out in Japan
Microsoft's upcoming Windows operating system, Windows 7, is slated for an October 22 release; however, the Redmond software giant allowed people to begin pre-ordering much earlier to beat the rush... and it seems this offer was quite well received in Japan.
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30.6.2009 Windows 7 Seeing fantastic Sales in Japan, Says Ballmer
Initial sales of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, were "fantastic" in Japan and helped spur PC sales in the country, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
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5.11.2009 Japan-only 20th Anniversary Edition Windows XP
Localization be damned, since Microsoft has decided to release a special edition of Windows XP only in Japan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows. Finding details about what has changed versus previous XPs is difficult (probably because nothing changed), but we do know that it will feature a special ?20th anniversary edition? desktop theme. Err, does that even count?
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22.11.2005 Xbox 360 Off to Slow Start in Japan
Microsoft may have to try a little harder in marketing the Xbox 360 to Japanese consumers if initial reports coming out of the country Saturday are correct. According to several press outlets, reaction to the new console from Japanese customers appeared to be somewhat apathetic.
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11.12.2005 Xbox 360 In Japan Selling Almost As Well As PS3
Another sign of Sony’s sinking fortunes came out last week, when the Japanese hardware sales chart showed that the Xbox 360 was gaining on it.
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29.6.2007 PS3 launch in Japan Spring 2006 under US$400?
So we got a tip from some guy who kind of knows somebody who is friends with a dude at Joystiq who posted about a 1UP story linking to a Japanese blog called CoolGamer that 1UP says has been pretty spot on with gaming news in the past.
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Microsoft switches Japan Xbox chief, not strategy
The new head of Microsoft Corp's Xbox division in Japan acknowledges that sales of the game console have not fully met expectations, but says there will not be a major shift in strategy following a slow start.
"Sales have not necessarily lived up to everyone's expectations since launch," Takashi Sensui, who was tapped on Thursday to replace Yoshihiro Maruyama as general manager of the Xbox division in Japan, told Reuters in a phone interview.
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16.2.2006 88,400 PS3s Sold in Japan in 2 Days
Supplies of the PlayStation 3 are all but gone after retailers blew through their inventory in under a week, Japanese gaming magazine Enterbrain reported. 88,400 units were sold over the weekend, nearly all of the 100,000 units initially available.
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13.11.2006 Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan
TOKYO - Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
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22.10.2007 Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan
Refusing to give up on the game console market in Asia/Pacific, Microsoft has cut the price of its Xbox 360 console in Japan, and is also adding a new model.
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2.9.2008 Microsoft Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan
Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said.
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5.10.2008 Microsoft aiming to sell 1m Xbox 360s in Japan
Xbox Japan's business manager, Yoshihiro Maruyama, has announced that Microsoft is aiming to sell 1 million Xbox 360 units in the region by summer 2006.
In an editorial published in Dengeki Xbox 360 magazine, Maruyama wrote: "It's only a target, but the one million mark is a figure we'd like to reach by next summer."
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5.12.2005 Microsoft Japan sees 80 Xbox 360 games by year-end
Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit said on Thursday Xbox 360 game console users in Japan will have more than three times as many game titles available by December as now, a move seen as preparing itself for an upcoming battle with Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3.
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6.4.2006 Is Windows 7 ready for release now?
Earlier today, I read about the latest leaked build of Windows 7 to appear on BitTorrent. The text on the desktop suggests that build 7057 is part of the release candidate branch.
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13.3.2009 Just One More Release Before Windows Vista Goes Gold
Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold, said Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group.
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1.10.2006 Microsoft looks to testers for help with next Windows release
A beta tester's work is never complete, at least not in the world of Windows. Last week, the long awaited launch of Windows Vista began as it was released to enterprises. Microsoft has attributed much of the product's success, as in success by going gold, to its testers.
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4.12.2006 Windows 7 On Track For 2010 Release
That's the year we'll make contact, and not before.
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9.4.2008 Windows 7 Server to be 'minor release'
Microsoft said on Monday in the US that the server version of Windows 7 would not be a major release and will bear the name Windows Server 2008 R2.
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20.8.2008 Microsoft must know the right time to release Windows 7
Back in 2006, Microsoft released its last installment of Windows till date, Windows Vista to the market (Although it was released on January 2007 for broader audience and retail market).
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12.3.2009 Possible Windows 7 release candidate leaked
The latest Windows 7 build, which may be the first release candidate of Microsoft's highly-anticipated operating system, has been leaked to several file-sharing websites.
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18.3.2009 Supercomputer version of Windows nears release
Microsoft on Monday released a near-final version of its Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003--a version of its operating system tailored to allow powerful clusters of Windows-based machines to perform high-performance computing tasks.
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9.5.2006 Windows Vista RC2 Release Imminent
A public download page for Windows Vista RC2 has been located hosting a new build number (5744).
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5.10.2006 Windows Home Server Press Release
Posted earrlier on Bink.nu, but here is the Microsoft's Official Press Release:
Bill Gates Unveils Windows Home Server at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show.
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9.1.2007 Windows Live Hotmail Set for May US Release
Microsoft is preparing to launch Windows Live Hotmail in the United States by next month, although customers in India and Belgium will begin seeing the updates later this week, the company is expected to announce Tuesday.
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17.4.2007 Windows XP SP3 Release Dates
With Service Pack 3 for Windows XP just over the horizon, we've managed to get our hands on the internal schedule for the release of the highly anticipated update to the aging operating system.
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15.4.2008 Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.
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1.10.2008 A first look at Windows 7 s pre-beta PDC release
Is it a major release or just a revamped Windows Vista? That’s the big question surrounding Windows 7, which made its public debut in a keynote address by Steven Sinofsky today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
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31.10.2008 More Windows 7 Release Candidate details revealed
Just a day after Paul Thurrott revealed 'Windows XP Mode' for Windows 7, he has come out and posted a few more interesting details about the upcoming release.
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26.4.2009 Windows 7, what has changed from Beta to Release Candidate?
As Microsoft unveils the Release Candidate to the world today we take a look at what has changed from the original Beta in January to the Release Candidate (RC).
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30.4.2009Sony Debuts New PS2 in Japan
Sony is about to release a new version of its aging PlayStation 2 console in Japan ahead of the upcoming holiday season...
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06.11.2007Sony to Sell Only BD-R Recorders in Japan, Will Not Drop DVD-R
As Sony made official yesterday, the company plans to release four new Blu-ray Disc recorders in Japan on November 8, all of which will be capable of
recording to dual-layer (50 GB) BD-R and BD-RE (erasable, re-recordable) discs. But despite press reports in the US, Sony is not dropping support for
red-laser DVD-R recording...
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14.09.2007Yahoo teams up with eBay on auctions in Japan
The alliance pairs eBay with the company that pushed it out of the market in Japan in 2002...
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04.12.2007Wii Launches Nov. 19 in US,
Dec. 2 in Japan
Nintendo provided further
guidance on the release of the
Wii on Thursday, including
announcing a price and release
date as well as accessories to
ship with the console. The Wii
will launch first in the
United States on November 19...
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14.09.2006Wii Widens Lead Over PS3 in Japan
Sony's PlayStation 3
continues to fall further
behind in Japan, data from
Japanese gaming magazine
publisher Enterbrain
indicates. In June, the
Nintendo Wii outsold the
console by a six-to-one
margin...
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02.07.2007PS3 Sales Dropping in Japan
There is increasing evidence
worldwide that sales of the
PlayStation 3 are beginning to
slow significantly. A firm
says sales of the console in
Japan this past week were the
worst since launch...
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19.01.2007PS3 outsold Xbox 360 2:1 in Japan
For all ex-Microsoft, now EA
Sports man Peter Moore's
claim that the PS3 isn't
doing too well in Japan, the
latest sales figures from that
country show the Sony has
shifted a darn sight more
next-gen consoles than Moore
managed.
According to
Japanese games magazine
publisher Enterbrain - by way
of the Reuters news agency -
Sony had sold 1.01m PS3s in
Japan between from the
console's 11 November 2006
debut there to 15 July 2007.
The Xbox 360, which
arrived in Japan in December
2005, almost a year before the
PS3, has only racked up local
sales of 420,705, between that
date and 8 July, Enterbrain's
numbers show...
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18.07.2007PS3 outsells Wii in Japan during November
For the four weeks ending November 25, the PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo's Wii by around 15 percent in Japan, but it still has quite a bit more
catching up to do...
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30.11.2007Nintendo Launching 'Wii Fit' in Japan for Holidays
Nintendo said Wednesday that it will begin selling its previously announced Wii balance board in Japan for the holiday shopping season...
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10.10.2007Yahoo Japan to Feature iTunes
Yahoo's Japanese arm said
Monday that it had entered
into an agreement with Apple
to direct searchers for music
at the search company's
Japanese portal to tracks on
iTunes Japan...
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18.06.2007Skype for Sony PSP delayed in Japan, still on track for US, EU
Sony's game unit announced the rollout of Skype VoIP services for the handheld would be delayed in Japan due to microphones not meeting
specifications...
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24.01.2008Napster Brings Music Service to Japan
While it is struggling to
retain subscribers in the
United States and even
considering a sale of the
company, Napster on Tuesday
launched its subscription
music store in Japan,
following through on a promise
made last year - albeit six
months late...
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03.10.2006Online gamer arrested for 'virtual murder' in Japan
She isn't accused of homicide, exactly, but a woman in Japan could spend five years in jail on charges related to "murdering" her virtual
husband in revenge for a virtual divorce...
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25.10.2008Pre-Order Your Copy of Windows 7
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'Metal Gear Solid 4' gives PS3 a sales boost in Japan
It's good to be on top of the heap, Sony discovered for perhaps a brief moment, and today gaming analysts are giving the PS3 a ray of hope for Japan.
But that depends on just how carefully you slice the pie, as the market leader remains Nintendo...
betanews.com - 03.07.2008
Wii Continues Dominance in Japan
Nintendo's Wii console
continues to be the surprise
success in the next-generation
console race, outselling the
Sony PlayStation 3 by a
two-to-one margin in Japan
during the month of January...
betanews.com - 06.02.2007
Xbox 360 sales start slow in
Japan
Microsoft sold less
than half of the estimated
159,000 Xbox 360 consoles that
were available in stores in
Japan in its first weekend of
sales, a survey result showed
on
Tuesday.
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nly about 62,000 units were
purchased on Saturday and
Sunday, according to an
independent study by
Enterbrain, which publishes
leading Japanese game magazine
"Famitsu." That was also
less than half the 123,000
units Microsoft sold of its
previous generation Xbox in
the first three days of sales
in February
2002.
"There is
just one reason for the slow
sales--the postponement of the
launch of the 'Dead or Alive
4' game," Munetatsu Matsui,
editor-in-chief of "Famitsu
Xbox 360", said in a news
release, adding that about
61.5 percent of his readers
had planned to buy the highly
anticipated game. Microsoft
originally planned to release
the 3D fighting game at the
same time as the Japan launch,
but has now postponed it until
Dec. 29.
Enterbrain
reported that some stores had
customers who canceled
pre-reserved Xbox 360s, while
others asked to reserve a
console for purchase when
"Dead or Alive 4" comes out.
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winbeta.org - 13.12.2005
Sony's new PSP selling faster than original in Japan
Sales of Sony's new PlayStation Portable in Japan have topped 1 million in just two months, hitting the milestone two weeks sooner than the original
PSP did three years ago...
betanews.com - 26.11.2007
Microsoft Committed to Xbox in
Japan
Microsoft told reporters in
Tokyo Thursday that it planned
to triple the number of games
it will offer in Japan by the
end of this year. The console
has struggled in the country,
largely out of a lack of
Japanese-centric games and
consumers' wishes to wait for
Sony's PlayStation 3...
betanews.com - 06.04.2006
YouTube to Meet With Japan Group
Following requests by a
Japanese entertainment group
for YouTube to implement
stricter copyright policies,
the social video site has
acquiesced to some of its
demands and plans to meet with
the group in Japan shortly, it
said Tuesday...
betanews.com - 20.12.2006
