A free weekend of Xbox Live Gold
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1.4.2006 Amazon offers 40% off Xbox Live Gold Subscription
Amazon.com recently unveiled it's latest accessory sale, and one of the more popular items that went on sale is an Xbox Live Gold Subscription.
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19.1.2009 365 Days Later, Xbox 360 Unveils First Wave of TV Shows and Movies on Xbox Live
Xbox 360 offers the latest in entertainment options for everyone, from a library of 160 high- definition games expected by holiday to downloadable standard and high-definition TV shows and movies.
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22.11.2006 The future of Xbox Live
Aaron Greenberg, responsible for the Xbox Live Marketplace content, was interviewed in a podcast of VGM Daily, and some interesting news surfaced:
First of all, the Xbox 360 is getting a "Virtual console" feature similar to what Nintendo planned for the Revolution, meaning older games (from other platforms) will be downloadable for a small price. The service will be officially announced at E3.
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14.4.2006 Xbox Live 3.0 Tuesday
Xbox Live is set to go offline from 02:00 - 15:00 Tuesday Pacific Time (10:00 Tuesday - 01:00 Wednesday GMT).
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1.5.2006 DOOM on Xbox Live Arcade
id Softwares DOOM is available now for the Xbox 360 by download from Microsofts Xbox Live Arcade.
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8.10.2006 Xbox Live Hits 6 Million
Microsoft today announced that Xbox Live has hit 6 million registered members four months ahead of its schedule.
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6.3.2007 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 Office 2007 to Go 'Gold' This Month
Microsoft is winding down the beta program for Office 2007 as it prepares for a release to manufacturing before the end of the month. On October 25, Microsoft will close its Office Preview site and stop allowing downloads of the beta.
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9.10.2006 Microsoft Hails Xbox Live Success
During his DICE session, Peter Moore touched on some key Xbox 360 issues such as shortages and Xbox Live.
Regarding shortages, he said, "Within the next four to six weeks, anybody will be able to walk into a store and buy an Xbox 360."
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12.2.2006 Microsoft Expands Xbox Live to Windows
Microsoft continued to build on the success of its Xbox platform by extending it's popular Live gaming platform to Windows PCs. The service would debut on May 8, and would connect gamers on both platforms together.
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14.3.2007 Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games
Youve played Xbox 360 games with the millions of gamers on Xbox LIVE. Youve chatted, shared, and dominated in games of all kinds. But what if those millions could be playing your game?
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22.7.2008 Nearly 7 years after original, a new Windows XP goes gold
On August 24, 2001, Microsoft released to manufacturing the final version of Windows XP. 6 years and 11 months later, a new version of XP has gone gold, this time for the OLPC XO computer, also known as the "$100 laptop."
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25.7.2008 Unofficial Microsoft Points (Xbox Live) Converter
Check out how much that new theme, picture pack or Horse Armour really costs!
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8.7.2006 Microsoft Deletes Fake Xbox Live Accounts
Following on from the recent launch of the video marketplace for the Xbox 360, many users who suffer from regional download barriers, simply created fake accounts from outside America.
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29.11.2006 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Microsoft Bans 1 Million Xbox Live Accounts
It's being reported today the Microsoft has banned up to 1 Million Xbox Live Accounts.
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12.11.2009 Microsoft claims E3 record for Xbox Live downloads
Following the gaming mayhem at last week's E3 expo in the US, Microsoft has claimed that over 1.5 million gamers connected to its Xbox Live service at the event.
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19.5.2006 Tech problems hit Xbox Live video service
True on-demand TV has been a long promised dream of many, and that dream appeared to move closer this week when Microsoft launched its Video Marketplace service.
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26.11.2006 Gears of War boosts Xbox Live use by 80 per cent
The release of a batch of pre-Christmas Xbox 360 titles, lead by Microsoft's Gears of War, has seen broadband traffic on Xbox Live in the US swell by 80 per cent.
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6.12.2006 What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsofts back-end infrastructure?
Whether you think the recently proposed class action lawsuit over Xbox Live service holiday outages is crazy or justified, there are undeniable problems with Microsofts back-end Live infrastructure that Microsoft needs to address.
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7.1.2008 Breaking: Incoming Xbox Live update detailed in full
A preview of the upcoming Xbox Live update goes live on Monday, but weve got all the details to share with you now. And we have a gaggle of screenshots to boot.
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19.7.2009 Microsoft launches new Xbox360 Elite bundle with 2 gold games
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY AND FINISH THE FIGHT WITH THE XBOX 360 GAME OF THE YEAR BUNDLE
For a Limited Time, Get Fable II and Halo 3 with Xbox 360 Elite.
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20.4.2009 Microsoft Unites Xbox and PC Gamers With Debut of Games for Windows LIVE
Xbox LIVE extends to Windows Vista to create single online gaming service starting with Halo 2 on May 8.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft to Offer Education Grants
Microsoft Research is coughing up $1.2 million in order to fund academic research aimed at bringing technology to the under-privileged, focusing specifically on making computing more affordable, accessible and relevant to local culture. Two separate programs were launched Thursday.
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Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft offer
Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive of Yahoo, said on Wednesday he had turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo?s search business and that discussions about Bill Gates? software group acquiring the company had not taken place.
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14.5.2006 Pirates quick to offer Vista
AS MICROSOFT kicked off the global launch of its long-awaited Windows Vista, the software giant's new operating system also hit the streets of China - in pirated form.
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2.2.2007 Microsoft to offer third beta of collaboration tool
Microsoft has released the third beta version of its Team Foundation Server (TFS) software for application lifecycle management, a Microsoft representative said.
Available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers, the beta release will be feature-complete and is based on the September SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview, according to Microsoft. The beta will function with the Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate made available to MSDN subscribers and attendees of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference last week.
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Microsoft freebie Vista offer "sold out"
It sounded like a scam: visit this website, watch a few videos and get a free copy of Windows Vista or Office 2007.
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5.12.2006 Microsoft to Offer Beta Release of Popfly
At the Web 2.0 Summit, CEO Ballmer also will touch on Silverlight and announce the beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery.
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19.10.2007MS Entices Users with Free
Xbox Live
Through a sponsorship deal
with Verizon, Microsoft said
Friday it would allow free
Xbox Live access from March 31
through April 2 to any Xbox
360 owner. Called the Xbox
Live Gold Weekend, events
would include multiplayer
gaming, leaderboard
tournaments, and Play and Win
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10.03.2006Free Xbox Live Gold Weekend
Do you have a Xbox 360? Do you
want to get FREE Xbox Live
access for 3 days?
Well, according to a
deal with Verizon, Microsoft
announced it would provide
FREE XBOX LIVE ACCESS from
March 31 to April
2 to any 360 owner.
Dubbed the
Xbox Live Gold
Weekend events would
include multiplayer
tournaments, Play and Win
contents, and more! Verizon
has also announced it would be
giving out 1 million
Microsoft Points to
lucky Xbox Live members.
Though there is
nearly 3 weeks worth of
waiting, mark your calendars
NOW to take advantage of
Microsoft's promotion!
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11.03.2006Microsoft hooks up Xbox Live subs with free Arcade title
Looks like Microsoft is going to do the right thing:
as anticipated, Xbox
Live General Manager Marc Whitten states in a letter to customers that, as recompense for nearly two weeks of
outages, the group is offering up a full, free Xbox Live Arcade title free of
charge. Sounds like it won't be until the next couple of weeks before the offer is active, but it will indeed apply to "all" Xbox Live members, and
assuming it's for games worth more than 200 Microsoft points, it will be net positive for Gold users who lost about $1.64 worth of Live service over
the last twelve days. Well done Microsoft, we think most will consider the stinging pain eased. Memo posted after the break.
Update: Confirmed, it's Gold AND Silver members. If you have an Xbox Live account, Microsoft just gave you a free game.
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04.01.2008Microsoft launches XBox 360 Gold giveaway
Even with recent news that Microsoft is planning on laying off about 17% of it's employees, the software giant launched it's Lunar New Year
promotion. From now until February 15th 2009, residents of Hong Kong will have an opportunity to win some golden XBox 360's. Although these
consoles are not solid gold, they are worth a lot more than what participants will have to pay to enter the competition. To enter the competition you
need to purchase a XBox 360 with a 60GB hard drive or an XBox 360 elite. The last step is sending an e-mail to Microsoft explaining why you love your
XBox.
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17.01.2009Xbox Live Gets TV, Movie Downloads
Microsoft late Monday
announced a major new
initiative to offer television
shows and movie downloads via
its Xbox Live service, further
transitioning the Xbox 360
from video game console to
consumer home entertainment
device.
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07.11.2006One Million Xbox LIVE Members Download and Activate Netflix on Xbox360
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced that 1 million Xbox LIVE Gold members have downloaded and activated
the groundbreaking Xbox LIVE application from Netflix since the alliance launched last November. In less than three months the Xbox LIVE community has
watched instantly 1.5 billion minutes of movies and TV episodes.
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05.02.2009Xbox Live to Offer ESPN TV Downloads
ESPN said Monday that it had signed a deal with Microsoft to bring some of its programming to Xbox Live, including games and television shows...
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05.11.2007Amazon Drops Xbox Live Price to $30
Make what you will of Sony's embryonic
PlayStation Home, the PS3's online matchmaking service ultimately costs nothing, while Microsoft's Xbox Live equivalent reaches into your
wallet and extracts $50 annually. It's all a bit strange, really, considering the Xbox's Windows-based sibling, Games For Windows Live,
made the transition to "on the house" this summer.
Now
Amazon's thrown a $20 curveball at the issue by discounting their
Xbox 360 Live
12 Month Gold Card plus 1 Month Bonus card, making the new price just $29.97 -- a 40% markdown.
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19.01.2009One million users already for Xbox's Watch Instantly, says Netflix
The number of Xbox 360 users downloading the Watch Instantly application from Netflix has now reached the 1 million mark, according to Microsoft and
Netflix. Introduced less than three months ago, the application is designed to let Xbox Live Gold members use their TVs to watch movies and television
shows streamed from Netflix to an Xbox gaming system from Microsoft.
By now, Xbox customers have used the application from Netflix to watch
1.5 billion minutes of movies and TVs, the companies maintained in a statement. Over 12,000 movies and TV episodes are available for instant viewing
through Netflix, with a growing percentage available in high definition format. Beyond supporting Netflix streaming in the US, the Xbox Live Video
Marketplace also offers more than 17,000 other pieces of standard and HD content...
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06.02.2009Xbox LIVE Hits 10-Million members
The Xbox Live community has continued to grow since it first launched back in November of 2002. Microsoft recently announced that it reached 10
-million members both gold and silver membership. Reaching it six months before Microsoft estimated it to. Xbox LIVE connects millions of members
across 26 countries to enjoy hundreds of multiplayer games, downloadable games via Xbox LIVE Arcade, free and premium playable game demos, music
videos, TV shows and movies in the United States as well as extra game content like new levels, characters, and vehicles for all their favorite retail
games. All in the comfort of one area called the Xbox LIVE marketplace.
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08.01.2008Xbox Live to Offer Disney Films in HD
Microsoft has forged an
agreement with Disney to offer
the studio's movies for
rental via Xbox Live.
High-definition films will
cost 480 Microsoft points,
while those in
standard-definition run 320
points. Older films are priced
at 360 points and 240 points.
All films can be watched for
24 hours after downloading
before they expire...
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11.07.2007Xbox 360 2007 Fall Dashboard Update
As promised, Microsoft is bringing some early gifts to your Xbox 360 just prior to the holiday season. Beginning at 0200 A.M. PST on December 4, 2007,
the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update will be available for all connected Xbox 360 consoles free of charge, bringing a herd of new features and
enhancements to the leading gaming and entertainment system.
Among the key new enhancements are the previously announced Xbox
Originals game download service, Family Timer parental control feature, and expanded social networking experiences. Xbox 360 owners can also look
forward to enhanced navigation, profile, and video features and Xbox LIVE® Arcade Hits. As well to visual enhancements to the Xbox Live Marketplace
and the rest of the dashboard as well.
The update will be digitally distributed over Xbox LIVE to the more than eight million
Xbox LIVE members worldwide (Xbox LIVE Silver and Gold) with no disc or hard drive required. If you have no account, you can easily sign up for one
free of charge either online on the official Xbox website or through your Xbox 360 console.
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04.12.2007Gears of War Officially Goes Gold
Thanks
to V
oodoo Extreme for the
heads up.
Microsoft Game Studios
and Epic Games, Inc. announced
today that "Gears of War"
has gone gold. To celebrate
the passing of the "gone
gold" development milestone,
a sneak preview of the TV and
cinematic trailer is available
now on Xbox Live.
Emerging onto store
shelves acrosss the nation on
Nov. 12, "Gears of War" is
set to deliver exciting action
and horrific battles that can
only be created by a chainsaw
bayonet this Holiday.
Xbox
Live will celebrate Emergence
Day with 24-hours of special
events beginning at 12:01 a.m.
on Sunday, Nov. 12. Xbox Live
Gold members in North America
will have a chance to
participate in online
tournaments, download videos,
win prizes and participate in
a variety of activities.
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26.10.2006Microsoft Bans 1 Million Xbox Live Accounts
It's being reported today the Microsoft has banned up to 1 Million Xbox Live Accounts. Fresh on the heels of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
release Microsoft has stepped up their attack on piracy by banning a mass of Xbox Live users. According to a report in InformationWeek, Microsoft has
banned as many as a million players from Xbox Live for altering or modifying their consoles in order to play pirated versions of Xbox video games.
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13.11.2009Microsoft Details Xbox Live Update, Netflix Exclusivity
Microsoft frequently rolls out updates for the Xbox LIVE service that adds new features for Xbox owners. The latest update for Xbox Live is coming
soon with some features set to roll out this week. Starting on August 13, Xbox owners will be available to browse and purchase Games on Demand on the
Xbox Live Marketplace...
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11.08.2009Special Oblivion Offer on Xbox Live
Bethesda Softworks is pleased
to announce that we've worked
with the good folks at Xbox
Live to give away one of our
most popular downloads for
Oblivion - Mehrunes Razor -for
a limited period of time.
Starting this Friday, Dec. 22,
Xbox 360 gamers will be able
to download Mehrunes Razor for
free from Xbox Live. This
offer is only for a limited
timefrom Dec. 22 to Dec. 31.
On Monday, Jan. 1 it will go
back to its standard price.
So be sure to log on
to Xbox Live beginning this
Friday and download your free
copy of Mehrunes Razor!
Happy Holidays from
Bethesda Softworks.
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22.12.2006Modded 360s Banned from Xbox Live
Gamers with modified Xbox 360
consoles are getting a nasty
surprise: their consoles are
being blocked from accessing
Microsoft's Xbox Live
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19.05.2007Xbox Live running normally after spotty holiday service
While Microsoft is not specifically citing any cause, reported issues with the Xbox 360's online Xbox Live service seem to have been resolved as of
Wednesday morning...
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02.01.2008Disney-ABC Television Group and MGM Offer HD Entertainment Content on Xbox LIVE
Xbox LIVE Marketplace, the leading high-definition video-on-demand service, is expanding once again, adding content from two major entertainment
partners. Microsoft Corp. today announced at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that Disney-ABC Television Group and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) will be joining the more than 35 networks and studios offering U.S. Xbox LIVE members premium entertainment
content via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace Video Store.
Disney-ABC Television Group and MGM are two of the biggest names in the
entertainment industry, and this announcement helps continue to evolve and diversify the content offering on Xbox LIVE, said Robbie Bach, president
of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. The ability to offer such great content in high definition further expands Microsofts
commitment to connected entertainment with Xbox 360.
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07.01.2008Microsoft Integrates Messenger with Xbox Live
Microsoft has announced its
planned upgrades to the Xbox
360, expected on May 7. Among
the new features are
integration with the Windows
Live Messenger network. The
new functionality expands the
messaging capabilities beyond
the Xbox Live gaming network
to the entire Messenger
community...
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