Microsoft to Cut Xbox 360 Price This Weekend

Rumors about Microsoft planning to cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console, but now there appears to be sufficient evidence that such a move is imminent: Flyers and internal memos posted on the Internet suggest that the price of the Xbox 360 Pro (Premium) console - Microsoft’s volume system - will drop by $50 from $349.99 to $299.99.Various gaming websites confirmed an earlier report by the Wall Street Journal about the upcoming price cut. Ads from Best Buy Best Buy and K-mart as well as an internal memo from GameStop essentially confirm the $299.99 price beginning Sunday, July 13. The price of the $450 Elite system is generally believed to remain unchanged.Target online has taken it a step further by already offering the Xbox 360 Pro on its website for $299.99.So, why the price drop?There may be two sides to the story. One is the life-cycle of the console. As the production matures, production cost goes down (which has been confirmed by Microsoft over the past six quarters) and enables the company to drop the price to make the package more attractive.On the other side, the Wii and the PS3 have significant momentum and are hurting Xbox 360 sales especially in Europe and Asia. According to NPD, the Xbox 360 was the second worst selling game console in May: 186,600 units were just slightly ahead of the Playstation portable, which sold 182,300 units. Sony sold 208,700 PS3s and Nintendo 675,100 Wiis and 452,600 portable DS consoles.

Goodbye, XP. And Welcome VIsta

June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It’s also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece) to start looking ahead to what comes next — after Windows.That answer could be Softie Eric Rudder’s mysterious “Midori” project.First, the back story: As San Jose State Professor Randall Stross notes in his Times article, “Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air,” Windows has become big and unwieldy. That’s why Microsoft has been working for the past several years on reducing dependencies within Windows. And that’s what MinWin, the slimmed-down Windows core that Microsoft’s Core team has built (which supposedly won’t be at the heart of Windows 7) is all about.Microsoft also has been investigating for the past several years what a non-Windows-based operating system might look like. That project, which recently hit the 1.0 milestone, is code-named “Singularity.”
Now its turning into the revolution of Windows Vista, aiming all the providers and the users are now currently using Windows Xp will be changed into Windows Vista. . .
Microsoft is aiming to the net generation Operating System ie, WINDOWS 7 is aming to launch after 2 years. . .

Bill Gates Sign Off from MICROSOFT

The news that the world point out is BILL GATES STEP DOWN FROM MICROSOFT. The man who stood behind the microsoft and the legend in software and computer field is now concentrating to the develop his foundation "GATES FOUNDATION". In 1953 Bill Gates sets the Microsoft into motion. Now he is not in Microsoft.

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“We've really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.”
-Bill Gates, June 2008

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