Xbox Live, Outlook, Bing down as Microsoft services experience outage (update)
Updated at 1 p.m. PST: After a hiccup, it looks like Xbox Live, Bing, and the rest are coming back online. Microsoft has told...
Microsoft taps Bango to expand carrier billing across Windows 10 devices
With Windows 10 now running on more than 200 million devices, Microsoft is expanding its partnership with mobile-payments company Bango to bring carrier billing...
Rise of the Tomb Raider has sold through 1M copies, according to Microsoft
Microsoft has confirmed that the adventurer’s latest outing, the excellent Rise of the Tomb Raider (one of the 10 best games of the year), has reached “well over” 1 million copies sold through to consumers. In a tweet, Xbox marketing exec Aaron Greenberg specifically noted that Rise made a lot of those sales in December.
How to create a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive
Even with the rise of cloud storage, the USB flash drive is still vital for cases where the Internet won’t cut it, especially as...
Xbox One’s promising Scalebound gets bumped into 2017
One of Microsoft’s biggest 2016 exclusives is no longer coming out this year. Scalebound, the Xbox One game about fighting and dragons and fighting...
Microsoft: Over 200 million devices now run Windows 10
Windows 10 may have ended 2015 with under 10 percent market share, but Microsoft is starting off the new year with a strong announcement:...
Windows 10 ends 2015 under 10% market share
9.96 percent. Close, but no cigar. Five months after its release, Windows 10 still hasn’t passed 10 percent market share, according to the latest...
This Xbox One battery pack that charges in 60 seconds sounds dangerous
The Xbox One controller is a great device, but many people hate fussing with AA batteries and others hate having to wait an hour...
2015 was the best year ever for games
Time is weird. We mostly use it to organize days and weeks to help us figure out how far away the next Star Wars...
Microsoft’s next casual game is another Scrabble clone (update)
How many points is “derivative” worth in Scrabble? Microsoft Casual Games announced today that its next title will be Microsoft Ultimate Word Games, which...