Microsoft announced its all-new Arc Touch Mouse, “the first mouse designed to flatten for portability and pop up for comfort.” The mouse goes from curved to flat with just the touch of a finger for ultimate portability and users can just collapse the Arc Touch Mouse to turn it off, and pop it up to turn on. It is even more portable than the original foldable Arc Mouse. The new Arc mouse features Microsoft’s first touch scroll strip that allows users to control their scrolling with a flick of a finger. It utilizes BlueTrack technology that allows tracking on

Well this doesn’t look so good – after all the positive hype surrounding the upcoming Kinect controller from Microsoft, it’s time for some bad news (highly dependent on where you live though). Apparently, the controller will only support a handful of languages, namely English (both the American and British versions), Japanese and Mexican Spanish for its voice control features.There are rumors of Microsoft planning to add more languages post-release, but one thing is for sure – if you live in a non-English speaking country in Europe, forget about

There have been some frequent complaints about the quality of the Xbox 360’s D-Pad and its durability, as well as the flexibility it offers. It appears that Microsoft have finally decided to answer the public’s pleas and have unveiled the new model for the console’s controller, featuring a “transforming” d-pad.The basic idea is that the plastic that the d-pad is nested in is very flexible, and you can alter its shape by simple nudging the d-pad around. According to Microsoft, their testers have been expressing great satisfaction over the precision

Microsoft’s Bing app is now available as an app on select Android smartphones. Though not as popular as Google, the Bing app includes the picture of the day background, local business search, Bing Maps and, of course, search results for web, images, video, news and directions.The only catch — the app is available for download only for Verizon customers. Microsoft says they plan to roll out Bing to all Android users across all carriers. According to Microsoft:Voice search is also great when it comes to your local business listings. Give it a try, even something complex,

Today, Facebook announced that they won’t be supporting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 for their service anymore. This has come as yet another sign to the various companies and individual users out there that it’s probably finally time to move up and upgrade to a more recent version of the browser. Still, it should be noted that the change in Facebook’s policy is only related to their chat function and not the site as a whole.According to a blog post from Facebook representatives, the move came as a response to some user complaints about the chat’s

See what we have for you here. Giving us enough material to believe that the Microsoft invites that were sent out a while ago inviting recipients to a Kinect beta program were indeed genuine, guys at Joystiq have posted a few images that reveal what the updated Xbox 360 Dashboard interface would look like. The leak has in it loads that elaborate on the latest Microsoft innovation.The screenshots that have been arrayed shows all including a recast Avatar editor plus a few navigational changes that would help in putting to use your body as controller. All these revelations come even

Sony with its Play Station competes neck to neck with Microsoft’s Xbox consoles, but MSFT may have finally taken the advantage courtesy of its very own mobile devices OS Windows Phone 7. Curious to know why we are thinking like this? Well, MSFT intends to devise a communication system between the Windows Phone 7 laden cellphones and their gaming consoles range Xbox in order to take the gaming to the next level.If we look at it the other way round, this is a great promotion tact for the upcoming Windows Phone 7, but for this, MSFT will have to ensure that they set up the

Microsoft has announced that they are testing an updated version of its home server product, which can now manage Macs in addition to Windows PCs. The home server code-named Vail has been announced along with the availability of a test version of its new Aurora small business server.Windows Home Server is developed in a way that will help multi-computer homes to backup and manage their systems. The introduction of Mac support will be a great help for those who utilize both Mac and Windows platforms. Aurora, which is also getting Mac support, is designed to allow businesses to

It’s battlefield on the ad terrain for Microsoft and Apple. If you thought the long-running Mac vs PC duel had mellowed down over the years, think again. There is ample proof that the battle is fought in severe terms even now. The latest is that Microsoft has outed a new web-based ad reasoning why Mac is inferior compared to a Windows PC.Among the many aspects that Microsoft has listed out to kill the Mac are some hard hitting statements. One runs thus: You can’t get a Mac that ships with a Blu-ray player, TV tuner, memory stick reader, or built-in 3G

Microsoft have given us a warning about a new security exploit in their operating system, which has the potential to make multiple applications vulnerable to external attacks. The flaw is based on an attack mechanism called “DLL preloading”, or binary planting. Even though it’s a relatively old type of attack (which isn’t even limited to Windows to begin with), according to Microsoft there’s a new way it can be utilized to exploit machines.There are quite a few programs affected by the exploit as of currently, and Microsoft have taken some steps to