Microsoft benches sports games
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Turn out the lights, the party's over for unit that created mainstream sports games for the Xbox. Seventy-six workers lose jobs.
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LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS  - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O  was ordered by a European Union court to change its business  practices and immediately market a stripped-down version of  Windows after it lost an appeal to delay sanctions imposed  earlier this year.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.
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InfoWorld - Fans of American football who are too busy to watch every game may enjoy the latest edition of&#160;Cyberlink&#39;s MagicSports software.
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Microsoft&#39;s video game division is taking a one-two punch. Earlier this month came news that the software giant was taking a charge of more than $1 billion to pay for costs related to extending the Xbox 360 warranty to three years. Now Peter Moore, the company&#39;s Xbox standard-bearer for the last four years is resigning to join EA Sports as its president. Replacing Moore at Microsoft as senior vice president of interactive entertainment business (Xbox and Games for Windows) is Don Mattrick, who was once EA&#39;s president of its worldwide studios.
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Microsoft Corp. this week acknowledged another overheating problem with its video game hardware, this one affecting the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel driving game controller.
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Without much explanation, Microsoft's PlaysForSure Web page, which had once been the meeting ground for its portable media tech partners, now bears a statement to users that the logo is being dropped.
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Microsoft can't dust off its blue ribbons anymore.
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Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console can create a strong and strange signal that disrupts wireless LANs.
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Microsoft Corp    said on Thursday it will offer a free downloadable video game  to users of its Xbox online gaming service after the network  was plagued with connection troubles over the holidays.
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Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game business will lay off 76 workers and stop making some sports games, the company said.
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The Xbox Live version of Sensible World of Soccer is removed as players discover problems online.
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drusoicy writes &quot;Reuters is reporting that Sean Burke has filed suit against Microsoft because his XBox system stopped reading discs (games or otherwise) after less than one year of use.
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Hot money hole Microsoft is taking a $1bn hit to fix Xbox 360s, conceding residual hardware faults in its games console are causing users frustration and an "unacceptable number of repairs."â¦
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Not open, not valuable, not really a subscription. Microsoft fails at marketing itself as hip.
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Microsoft yanks wish list of features for Vista's successor.
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Fans of American football who are too busy to watch every game may enjoy the latest edition of Cyberlink Corp.&#39;s MagicSports software.