Last week, a report surfaced suggesting that Stephen Elop, the man who many believe will take over for Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s next chief executive, would consider selling off the software giant’s Xbox division to focus its efforts on Office and other key platforms that tend to make it more money. The announcement was a […]
Microsoft has been publishing quite a few commercials for its next-generation console, the Xbox One. We’ve seen a commercial where the Xbox One invites you to play with it, while its Revealed trailer has us taking a closer look at the console’s hardware. Today, a new commercial, called Retirement Home, has been released that features former NFL stars Ray Lewis and Brian Urlacher as they attempt to enjoy their retirement. (more…)
New Xbox One Commercial Stars Former NFL Players Ray Lewis, Brian Urlacher original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This article was written on August 01, 2007 by CyberNet.
We’ve seen several high-quality images in the past that have been assembled together to form one large image. The latest breakthrough was the 1-trillion pixel image that required a special file format to manage the 143GB file. Other popular ones include Chicago By Night at 1-gigapixel and Machu Picchu at 1.5-gigapixels.
Over in the forum Max pointed out a 13-gigapixel image of Harlem, which is astonishingly huge. There was no doubt that it was an awesome site, but navigating around the massively detailed photo was quite a chore. Well, that was until Richard mentioned the HD View option that the photo had.
I had never used this feature before on any image, but curiosity got the best of me so I tried it out. The downside is that it will require you to open Internet Explorer and install an add-on, but I can say without a doubt that it is worth it.
So what is HD View? It’s a project by a Microsoft Research group, and here is why they created it:
Recent advances in camera and sensor technology and software for stitching images together has led to the creation of images containing billions of pixels (gigapixels). These images are often panoramic, that is, they cover very wide fields of view. Since monitors typically contain only one to two million pixels, it is only possible to actually see 1/1000th of such image data at once.
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HD View leverages current graphics hardware to allow smooth panning and zooming.
I think that this is something you really have to try out at least once, and here are some great places that use the technology:
So try out HD View and let us know what you think. I was quite stunned by it.
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This week, gamers are understandably excited over the upcoming release of the PlayStation 4, which is just three short days away from being released on November 15. The upcoming launch of the PlayStation 4 may be taking a bit of the spotlight away from the Xbox One’s release next week, but Microsoft has been battling Sony’s hype train along the way. Earlier this week, Microsoft had announced their Xbox One launch games have gone gold and have started shipping to retailers. (more…)
Microsoft Reveals Xbox One Launch Titles Have Gone Gold original content from Ubergizmo. 
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We’re sure that are many gamers out there who have multiple consoles, and don’t necessarily believe that there is a single “perfect” console out there. After who wouldn’t mind getting their hands on all the exclusive titles, right? In any case having multiple consoles usually means multiple HDMI ports being taken up, but if you’d rather not waste a HDMI port and would rather not plug in and plug out when needed, the Xbox One could be of interest to you. It seems that through its HDMI input, the Xbox One should in theory be able to run any HDMI-compatible device, like another console, for example.
The folks at Penny Arcade Report
tried to find that out by talking to Jeff Henshaw, the group project manager at Xbox, who was quoted as saying, “[i]f it puts out HDMI, it’ll work just great.” Henshaw also goes on to state that any lag that might be a result of this method will not be perceivable to the human eye. At the moment Henshaw claims that he and his son have managed to hook up an Xbox 360 to their Xbox One and it runs no problem, suggesting that if you wanted to hook up the Sony PlayStation 4, technically you should be able to do so as well.
The Sony PS4 Could Technically Be Played Through The Xbox One original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This article was written on April 23, 2008 by CyberNet.
So Windows XP SP3 was finally completed on Monday which goes along with the release schedule that we had previously provided. TechNet and MSDN subscribers were furious that they would not be given the download until after it was released to the public, and looked at it as a slap in the face from Microsoft. The negative publicity obviously wasn’t what Microsoft wanted, and so today they made the download available to those subscribers.
Does it even matter now? Not really… the 316MB XP SP3 download is appearing on sites all across the Internet. A good example of this is over at two of my favorite places: Major Geeks and Softpedia. They’ve already posted the full download, and have mirrored it in several different locations. That essentially means that it is already publicly available despite the fact that Microsoft won’t officially be posting it on their own site until Monday.
So if you want to get XP SP3 (build 5512) a little early head on over to Major Geeks or Softpedia. The download speeds won’t be blazing fast, but it sure beats tinkering around with a torrent.
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Today Microsoft gets serious about SkyDrive for cross-platform access to media of all types. Not that they didn’t plan on the service being taken seriously before, but here in integrating SkyDrive with the Xbox One, Microsoft makes a big play for the gamers and living room media players of the world. Here gamers galore will […]
We heard just a few months ago from Microsoft’s senior director of product management at Xbox , Albert Panello, concerning the possibility if the Xbox One offering backwards compatibility “eventually.” It looks like Panello may have changed his tune slightly since he last spoke about the matter back in September as he recently chatted with Polygon, admitting using cloud streaming on the Xbox One for backwards compatibility of Xbox 360 titles have been too “problematic” to be made available to consumers. (more…)
Xbox 360 Games Streaming Via Cloud On Xbox One Deemed ‘Problematic’ original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Earlier this morning, Sony published quite the unboxing video for its PlayStation 4 which we certainly would like to see done by other consumer electronics companies in the future. Not to be outdone, Microsoft has also published a new video for its Xbox One, although the purpose of the video, called Xbox One: Revealed, is more to show a closer look at the next-generation console’s hardware. (more…)
Microsoft Takes A Closer Look At The Xbox One In New Trailer original content from Ubergizmo. 
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While Microsoft might have backtracked on their policies regarding the always-on requirement for their Xbox One video game console, this does not mean that you won’t need an internet connection at all. In fact if you are planning on getting the Xbox One, you will need to have an internet connection, at least upon firing up the console because according to Microsoft, gamers will be required to download the day one patch if they hope to use the console. While it was known that a day one patch would be required, as is usually the case with consoles, it was not known as to how extensive the update might be.
The folks at Engadget posed such a question to Microsoft’s senior director of product management, Albert Penello, and asked if the console would still work and play games with a physical game disc even if they have no internet connection on day one. According to Penello, “Nothing. You need the Day One update.” Penello went on to state, “A lot of the apps come with the day one update because they wouldn’t have even been done […] You’re gonna need to take this update. It’s not gonna be really an optional thing’.” So there you have it, if you were thinking of getting the Xbox One, best make sure your ISP is good and ready and hope nothing goes wrong on day one itself!
Xbox One Will Require Day One Update To Be Completely Functional original content from Ubergizmo. 
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