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Microsoft's Letter to Yahoo Board

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2008-02-01 18:42:21 by William in Gaming Today
...Microsoft plans to make some big business deals with Yahoo in the near future. Weve obtained a copy of the most recent letter sent to the Yahoo Board of Directors from Microsofts Steven A. Ballmer. If Microsoft is successful in taking over Yahoo, this could certainly give them a lot of media leverage, particularly when it comes to pushing the...
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo board, microsoft, microsoft reserves, common stock, microsoft common stock, microsoft corporation, board, microsoft plans
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: What Microsoft Needs To Change To Satisfy Indies

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2008-08-01 00:00:29 by Chris Remo in GameSetWatch
...Microsoft to improve on what he sees as unfavorable terms I want to love you, Microsoft I really do, and I want to raise a family of little indie games with you, but every time things are starting to feel good between us, you go and do something to spoil it Microsoft has so far made three moves that are unfriendly towards independent game...
 
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Opinion: Aggregation Vs Portals: Where Microsoft Is Going Wrong With Xbox Live

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2008-05-30 08:00:00 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Microsoft's digital download service In perhaps the most interesting news of recent weeks, Microsoft have announced that they are going to start de-listing games from Xbox Live Arcade based on two criteria: Sales and review scores In their view this means that they are trying to bring some overall quality back to the product line, probably...
 
Tags: xbox live, live, live games, live game, xbox, xbox live arcade, web portal idea, idea, microsoft
 
 
 
 
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E3 2008: The top 5 things I learned from the Microsoft press conference

2008-07-16 13:18:03 by edhumphries in Adrenaline Vault
 
...Microsofts E3 2008 Press Conference 5. Those who play together: Online multiplayer used to be a developers number one bullet point. If you shipped a title without it, the professional game critics immediately dropped a couple points from your score, even if the game design didnt necessarily warrant the feature. Nowadays, online multiplayer is...
 
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MMORPG - MMOCrunch - World of Warcraft: A Look at Microsoft and MMOs: 3-0 Cancels

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2008-04-23 17:41:33 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...Microsoft has actually had their hands in quite a few MMORPG projects within the past few years. No stranger to the videogame marketplace in general, it only seemed to make sense that one of the largest providers of consoles and games would also begin to dabble in the increasingly profitable (for some!) MMO business. However, after attempting...
 
Tags: microsoft, mmo, microsofts, microsofts mmo history, current mmo marketplace, mmorpg, heroes, heroes mmo, marvel
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to Sell Home-brewed Xbox Games, Share Revenue

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2008-07-22 12:03:10 by Chris Kohler in Wired: Game|Life
...Microsoft's XNA development framework and port them to the Xbox 360's community games service will soon be able to sell their creations to other Xbox owners, Microsoft said Tuesday. Speaking Tuesday at the company's GameFest technology conference in Seattle, Microsoft exec Chris Satchell said that games that pass a peer-review process can be...
 
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TGS: Analysis - The State Of Sony, Microsoft... Nintendo?

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2008-10-11 08:00:53 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Microsoft and Sony, currently dueling for position in the worldwide market, sought a strong showing at TGS Sony needed to convince consumers that its recent loss to the Xbox 360 in the monthly Japanese sales charts was just a one-off. On the other hand, Microsoft needed to convince the assembled masses its momentum in the territory was not a...
 
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Editorial: Microsoft Doesnt Owe You Anything for Xbox Live Issues

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2008-01-12 20:20:52 by Chris in Gaming Today
...Microsofts inability to promptly fix Live (certain issues are still lingering one third of the way into January) in a timely fashion has led to outcries of the community in the form of calls for refunds, free extensions on Live subscriptions, and even a lawsuit And while the problems have frustrated myself as much as any other Xbox Live Gold...
 
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MMORPG - MMOCrunch - World of Warcraft: Could Microsoft be Publishing APB?

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2008-04-25 17:41:05 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...Microsoft Game Studios. This entire post in generally just pure speculation given by the recent courses of action by the two companies in the last few months Anyways, now thats out of the way, lets carry on. Is there a possibility that All Points Bulletin, Realtime Worlds newest crime MMORPG, could be getting the publishing treatment from...
 
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