It's a good, solid start fo Microsoft's new Xbox 360 motion camera, but it's only a start. Microsoft probably would have hoped for a bigger injection into the market, but if it keeps this pace it could succeed. The sales figures come from industry tracker VGChartz, and its computation of the number of copies of Kinect Adventures have been sold. That's the game that comes packed-in with Kinect and isn't avai ...

Microsoft's new mobile operating system is now live and kicking in the US. Mobile retailers and Best Buy have flagship launch units in stock, though today is more about the platform as a whole than it is about specific products. What's interesting about the Windows Phone 7 debut is that people know more about the operating system than they do about the phones. It's similar to when Microsoft launches a new P ...

It looks like the next-generation Windows operating system is less than two years away. It would be just a few years since the launch of Windows 7, an operating system that people have found at least tolerable, if not an improvement, after the debacle that was Windows Vista. The news came from a Dutch Microsoft website in which an employee blogged about the next operating system being a couple years away. P ...

Microsoft security expert has warned that Java-based malware attacks are on the rise. Holly Stewart says that while working on the company's Security Intelligence Report she noticed an unprecedented amount of Java exploitation late last year. "In fact, by the beginning of this year, the number of Java exploits (and by that I mean attacks on vulnerable Java code, not attacks using JavaScript) had well surpas ...

No, this article isn't accusing Microsoft Windows of being a scam. *Cough* But a number of clueless Windows users have apparently been targeted by an unknown scammer attempting to obtain remote system access. Warning: Microsoft Windows scam alert"Within the last few days we have had several clients call in and describe strange phone calls they have been receiving," reported Ashley Smith of MakeITWork. "A ma ...

A Microsoft spokesperson has weighed in on the latest Apple-Adobe spat by dubbing HTML5 the "future" of the web. According to IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch, HTML5 will be a "very important" player in advancing rich, interactive web applications and site design. "The HTML5 specification describes video support without specifying a particular video format. We think H.264 is an excellent format. In its ...

First-quarter earnings for the Internet company Yahoo nearly tripled as its revenue edged up for the first time in more than a year. The results, released Tuesday, represented the best quarterly performance for Yahoo since it hired Carol A. Bartz as chief executive to engineer a turnaround 15 months ago. The performance reflected an increase in online advertising, the main source of Yahoo’s income. Advertis ...

Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been a closely guarded company secret. But a person with direct knowledge of the investigation now says that the losses included one of Google’s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company’s ...

Microsoft   on Monday unveiled two phones for the socialista set -- people whose lives revolve around social networking and being in constant communication with friends. These are the Kin One and Kin Two. The phones run a specialized version of the Windows Phone 7 Series operating system. "Our strategy is a cohesive focus around Windows Phone," explained Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment d ...

Google   is rolling out an update to users of its Docs service allowing them to do more real-time collaborating and making a variety of speed and service enhancements. Elements of the update began rolling out Monday, with others scheduled to filter out to users over the next few days, according to Google. The update includes real-time collaboration on word documents, something previously available for sprea ...