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CES 2011: Notes on Microsoft Keynote with Steve Ballmer

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To start off the Microsoft Keynote speech Steve Ballmer talked about Microsoft’s gaming achievements. With this subject in the air Ballmer talks about how the Xbox 360 integrates social networks and your media collection.

Ballmer moves on to when the Kinect for the Xbox 360 was released. He explains how you are the controller and how you can control the UI of the Xbox 360.

Ron Forbes a Program Manager at Microsoft shows us how the Xbox Kinect can control the UI of the Xbox 360 and the Zune interface on the Xbox 360 with full 1080p functionality.

Ron states that “This spring Xbox Kinect will bring Netflix and later in the spring Hulu plus will be released for the Xbox Kinect.”

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Microsoft launches app for iPhone users to use iMessage on PC

Microsoft has made it easy for iPhone users to check their mobile updates on Windows-enabled computers.

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Microsoft is dabbling with ads in the Windows 11 Settings menu

Is nothing sacred?

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Microsoft DirectStorage is finally here, but there's a catch

Microsoft's next-generation storage API for PC games might be kind of a mess. Taking a look at the news around the DirectStorage implementation in Forspoken and what it might mean for the API going forward.

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