Microsoft Keynote CES 2009
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Some Key topics talk about in this Keynotes are:
Windows 7 — Lighter, Faster, and Reliability. Windows 7 Should boot quicker and faster, and enables cool new interface touch.
Windows 7 — Beta will be available Worldwide on January 9, 2009 and will be available for download on MSDN and Technet. Also it will be available at : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7 For those who want to download it from Microsoft directly.
Windows Live Essentials — Windows live Messenger, Mail, and Photo Gallery works with Windows XP, VISTA, and Windows 7. It is available for download worldwide. Dell will also be putting this on their consumer and small business computers.
Windows Mobile — 11 Different Mobile phones.
Verizon Mobile – Windows Live Search will be available through Verizon and it’s a partnership with Microsoft.
Demo of Windows 7, Live, and Mobile:
Windows 7 will have Windows touch and be able to use net books with Windows 7.
Windows 7 has been designed with the Touch DNA in mind.
Windows Mobile demo with an Panoramic display.
Windows Live Demo – Various things they discuss here including Photo’s and Silver light.
Windows XBOX:
Halo 3: 5 Million Served
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So Mass Effect sold a million. For a broken RPG, those are good numbers! Actually, for any game, those are good numbers. They’re nothing on Halo 3’s though. That thing just will not stop selling. Microsoft have announced that the game has sold more than five million copies since launch, which for a console that can’t have more than 15 million units in the wild is as good an attach rate as anyone at MS HQ could be hoping/praying madly for.
[Gamedaily][Via Kotaku]
Wow So many people like Halo 3, I’ll have to try it out sooner or later!! I do love Halo 2 and Halo!! So Halo 3 has to be good!!
Bungie awards exclusive Recon armor to famous Halo 3 suiciders
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Bungie Weekly Update: 10/26/07
Posted by Frankie at 10/26/2007 4:40 PM PDT
Banhammery
We’ve mentioned before that we have implemented lots of security and anti-cheating systems in Halo 3. We’ll never have it perfect because we cannot stop people being idiots, but it’s already significantly better than ever before. We’re about to activate a part of it that required a few weeks of folks playing in the wild before we’d gathered enough data to activate it. Well, we’re just about ready to swing the mighty mallet of justice and it should make a couple of types of cheating extinct very shortly.
Halo 3 has been available for precisely one month and we’re going to be working harder than ever to make sure it stays a safe and fair place to play for the next few years. So please bear with us and remember we’re always watching and more importantly, acting on the information we receive, whether it’s immediately visible or not.
Rank Amateurs
Halo Blamed For Bad Movie Ticket Sales
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Hollywood studio execs are BLAMING HALO 3, the Microsoft Xbox 360 game, for dismal box office receipts since the game was released September 26. For example, movie ticket sales for the October 5 weekend were down 27% below the same weekend last year. Meanwhile, Halo 3 gamers logged some 40 million hours of play during the first week alone.
I say this is totally ridiculous, I can’t see this stopping people from seeing movies.
Ten shooters that will make you forget about Master Chief
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Look, we liked Halo 3. No wait, that’s understatement. We loved Halo 3 and gave it a ten out of ten. But that doesn’t mean Master Chief’s latest adventure has everything we want in a first-person shooter. In fact, whether you’re talking about single player, multiplayer, premise, or plot, we think there are a ton of games that have – and will – best Halo 3. No, we’re not joking. Here are ten games that should make you forget about Master Chief.
Talking about Half-Life 2, Portal, team fortress 2, Bioshock, Crysis, Left 4 Dead, Quakewars, Haze, COD 4, and UT3. All nice and all but all of thee you have to buy how about some free shooters.
Gamers spend about $170M on ‘Halo 3′
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SEATTLE – Video game enthusiasts in the United States plunked down about $170 million on copies of “Halo 3″ in the 24 hours after the Xbox 360 game went on sale, Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday.“‘Halo 3′ has become a pop-culture phenomenon,” Shane Kim, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, said in a statement.
The game, which was developed by Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios, completes the saga of helmet-clad Master Chief and his quest to save humankind from aliens.
Fans pre-ordered more than 1.7 million copies of the game, and more than 10,000 stores opened at midnight Monday to start selling, according to Microsoft. The much-anticipated launch was marred only slightly by reports that limited-edition packaging left scratches on game disks.
“The initial demand we’ve seen for ‘Halo 3′ has been astounding,” Jill Hamburger, vice president of movies and games at Best Buy, said in a statement.
Wow, I didn’t expect this did anyone else. I’d figure Halo 3 wouldn’t of top this high of a record!
is there a problem with xbl at the moment??
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anyone know for sure, up until a few hours ago everything was fine, now.. i bring up the friend list with guide and it freezes, also, the whole xbl feels very slow, is it my console or is everyone experiencing some funny stuff on xbl???
http://forums.xbox.com/15761481/ShowPost.aspx
I wonder how quickly they will fix this!! I guess it is a record for XBOX live!! 
NY’s ‘Halo 3′ launch was no riot, but it was close
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reporter’s notebook NEW YORK–At about 9:30 p.m. Monday, George Clooney waltzed into a midtown Manhattan hotel, the camera flashes of the paparazzi following him right into the lobby. But a block away at the Best Buy store on 5th Avenue and 44th Street, the fans waiting for the launch of Microsoft’s Halo 3 video game couldn’t have cared less.They had their own epilepsy-inducing lights, after all. New York’s Halo 3 debut stopped short of pyrotechnics, but it was over the top in just about every other way.
“George Clooney who?” one person near the head of the line joked when he heard the gossip. Like most of the queuers who’d shown up at the Best Buy store for the official launch celebration for the final installment of the Xbox 360 game trilogy, he was young, male and sporting a Halo 3 T-shirt that had been given away as part of the festivities.
Oh Come off it. These people love Halo 3 and I knew today was going to have to be a day of all Halo. I wish there was more House M.D. than Halo. I do not have an XBOX 360 and wished I did. I sit here wondering when I will get one and hope it is soon! Donate help me get an XBOX!
Let’s all call in sick today!
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Some gamers plan to be ‘Halo’ sick
By John Kiesewetter, The Cincinnati Enquirer
For Microsoft Xbox 360 owners, Tuesday is Opening Day — the time to skip school, call in sick or take a vacation day for the big game.Halo 3.
The much-anticipated third and final edition in the Halo video game trilogy — about a super-human soldier, Master Chief, fighting against alien races and parasites — will be released at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
REVIEW: ‘Halo 3′ lives up to the hype
I say lets just call in sick to prove them right. We’ll log into our xbox live accounts and swarm the live account. Then everyone will be happy, except the employers.
Halo 3 BSOD(wouldn’t of thought)
Comments OffYou know the Bungie team must of been having fun with the Blue screen of Death because I think it’s an easter egg. I hope to find more stuff like that. Go check it out for yourself at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yamilg/1433360467/
LASTMANSTANDING Halo 3 and Discovery Channel
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Are they going to do a Halo Show or something like that October 4, 2007 at 9PM E/P
It’s was a nice clip, go check it out for yourself. You may even win an XBOX 360 Halo 3 system.
Xbox 360 Halo 3
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I thought this IGN Review on Halo 3 was Awesome so I figured I’d post it!!
Halo 3 IGN Review website:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/821/821911p1.html
