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Obviously, the app won't work until sometime around 10 am Pacific Time on Tuesday but if you own a Windows Phone 8 device and are interested in watching the next Xbox reveal event, you might want to go ahead and download Live Video player ahead of time.

Microsoft Corp. is expected to unveil a new Xbox videogame console on Tuesday, nearly eight years since the company launched its last gaming device into a market that was far more certain than it is today.

According to The Verge, Microsoft is doing away with its current Points system to introduce a true currency system very soon.

Microsoft has gotten next to nothing from its $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it may reap some rewards as it prepares to ship smaller tablets.

Surface Pro and a new 7 or 8 inch tablet are on its way, according to reports. Rumours also suggest that these tablets will hit the market pretty soon.

Global ICT giant Microsoft has organised an information technology workshop for Ghanaian students to motivate and help them develop applications that can be used to solve real life problems in Ghana and in African.

Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write.

Google I/O, which saw the public launch of Google Compute Engine, also spawned a "I know you are, what am I," slapfest between two companies that would like to unseat Amazon Web Services as the king of public cloud.

Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's Windows Phone marketing lead, was grinning from ear to ear when we sat down for an interview earlier this week.

I suppose it's a bit like that film The Matrix - you realize that you live in an ethereal and closed world only when you actually get to step outside of it.

DURANGO, Infinity, 720, whatever the name, it seems clear Microsoft will launch the next generation Xbox console on May 21.

Interesting new study on the effectiveness of speech-to-text technologies. Nice to see Microsoft beating Google Voice with the Exchange 2010 Voicemail Preview.

Hewlett-Packard rolled out another Android device this week. This could become a pattern as PC makers hedge against a world that's less about Microsoft and more about Google.

Microsoft's second foray into the modern tablet market, the Surface Pro, will launch in the UK on 23 May 2013.

Taking a screenshot from the Apple manual, Microsoft is opening its first full-line retail store at Dadeland Mall on Saturday - though in a different wing, right down the corridor from its competitor.

Yet another new theme, Swedish Spring, completes a seasonal look at that part of the world that's been depicted in previous themes.

Bill Gates is back on top of the world again. Or at least on top of the list of the world's richest people, where your net worth has to be well above $55 billion to be in the club.

Telecommunications giant Telefnica is to deploy Microsoft Office 365 and Yammer across its business to encourage collaboration and standardise the use of software among its 150,000-strong workforce.

It's been a little while here on the SQL Server Pro Mag BI Blog since I've provided any updates on the state of Cloud BI in the world of Microsoft BI.

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