Saturday, January 9, 2010

PImail (Microsoft) for 1/9/2010

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CES | Xbox guy: Project Natal won't be called Project Natal
Aaron Greenberg, a long-time spokesman for Microsoft's Xbox team, gave TechFlash's Todd Bishop an answer to the question we've all kinda-sorta wondered since summer: Will Project Natal be called "Project Natal"?

CES | Photo gallery of CES 2010 – Day 2
Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty ImagesA Microsoft representative, left, explains the features of a Windows Mobile smartphone to attendees Friday at the Microsoft booth at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. | Photo gallery Previous: View gallery of CES 2010 – Day 1 (Thursday) View gallery of CES 2010 – Day 0 (Wednesday)

CES | Ballmer talks Natal in another HuffPo column
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer loves talking about the "natural user interface," the development of which Microsoft hopes to accelerate with the release of Project Natal this year for Xbox 360. After writing Wednesday about Microsoft's work in health, education and the environment, Ballmer wrote another guest column for The Huffington Post on Friday.

CES | Meet the people behind Microsoft's CES booth
Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesA general view of the Microsoft booth Thursday at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Click to enlarge I've never done this and probably never will again – I'm referring you directly to a Microsoft PR piece. I never do this because a news release only gives you Microsoft's marketing message; my job is to break through the bull.

Microsoft asks for rehearing in Word case – but why?
Microsoft has filed for the rehearing of a patent-infringement case that slapped the software company with $290 million in fines and a restriction on selling Word in the U.S. But with Microsoft saying it is now in compliance, why is it putting up such a fight?

 

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