Microsoft has never successfully entered the gaming market of Japan. From the beginning of Xbox and now Xbox 360, Microsoft has always done badly. The sales record of Xbox 360 is worst than the selling rate of PS2 now.

Microsoft Japan has decided to cut down 13% of the price. Not only due to recently, Sony also announced that there will be a cheaper 40GB PS3 coming to the market. But also, the Christmas season is coming soon. More discount and annual sales are expected the strategies to boost the sales. However, we hope the 13% off will expand to world wide. But also, Microsoft please fix the red ring of death too.

When Microsoft Live released so many things at the same time, most of the users includiing me have totally confused which is suitable for us, which is not? Especially, two days ago, after I downloaded and installed Windows Live Writer, the installer becomes very clumsy and asking me to install bla bla bla others Windows Live software products.

So, today I found out that Microsoft has just including a new services to their Live members - Windows Live Translator. You can access the site throught translator.live.com, translate.live.com or even windowslivetranslator.com. Sound like Microsoft prepare too many urls that actually are pointing to the same location.

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OOXML stands for Office Open XML. PC users who used Microsoft Office 2007 should familiar with this as it is the default file format. Recently, Microsoft has tried to get OOXML standardize by ISO.

Although, at the first round Microsoft successfully to get 74% support from the voting members. But only 53% of the voting P-members support it. To win it, one should get 2/3 of the votes. Many national bodies have also voted against this standard. The reasons are due to the date format, languages support and compatibility to the existing standard.

More disadvantages of the OOXML is because of the cost. Competitors like openoffice.org offer the same feature on document formats and also are free.

When Yahoo announced they will be giving out infinite storage for their yahoo mail, Google at the other side also said their plan for gmail is infinite + 1. How about Microsoft Hotmail? I think most of the people also wondering the same question.

Finally, Microsoft is going to upgrade the hotmail storage to 2GB by this coming Monday. Glad to hear that, if you are still hotmail supporters! Most of the hotmail users have switch to use Gmail or Yahoo Mail. So, if you are premium subscriber, you able to get 4GB of storage.

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Thanks for the power of search engine, now you are able to easily search cd key by just typing

intitle:”Belarc Advisor Current Profile” “Software Licenses”

The reason behind this is because Belarc Advisor is a software that is able to show a profile of all the software you installed on your desktop and of course with the cd key. And it will generator the information into HTML code. This allows you to upload your profiles onto internet directly. I would say only careless end user without notice posting their generated result will cause this.

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Xmas is around the corner. Do you want to convince your kids that there is really Santa Claus at northpole? Now, you just need to add northpole@live.com on your windows messenger live. Then Santa will reply you.

After all, I think this is kinda silly. But it’s still a good trick to bluff your kids, especially kids now a days all more mature than the older generation. But I don’t think Santa will send you any gifts.

For spammers, maybe you want to spam this Santa’s mail - northpole@live.com

A “Get a Mac” spoof video clip by Microsoft. Microsoft claims that it is easier to upload music onto Zune with just one simple click than Ipod. And not so easy to be scratched than Ipod too. But I still think getting a brown color Zune is not a good idea. There should be other better color for Zune to be.

Jump from previous beta build 106 to 168. No changelog available from Microsoft yet.

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After the Xbox360 for selling 100 bucks on Amazon, which have cause their server down, now the next best deal we think is the Zune! It is selling for at a limit volume of 1000 pieces at the price of $90. The retail price of Zune is $250, thus you will be saving $160 bucks.

Now Amazon has learn to be clever, they will select the winner randomly based on the voting

Come back on Tuesday (12:00 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. Pacific time) to find out whether you are among the customers randomly selected to purchase the item you voted for at the price shown here.

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Recently a search engine called MsDewey.com which powered by Microsoft Live.com. It is developed by MRM and EVB. Ms. Dewey is a fully animated search assistant who audibly comments on searched keywords in her own style.

But turns out this actress call Janina Gavankar did a movie called “Cup of My Blood“ at the earlier days, inside the movie which involve plenty of sex scene.

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