text: This year is the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Hardware, the team at the company that makes keyboards, mice and other accessories. To mark the occasion they've come out with a limited edition 30th Anniversary version of their Arc Touch Mouse. Only 30 of these were made, appropriately enough — and we've got...
  With three days to go until Microsoft's (MSFT) Surface tablet officially launches on October 26th, WPcentral is reporting that customers have already started receiving confirmation emails that their tablets have been shipped. There hasn't been this much anticipation for a piece of Microsoft hardware since the Xbox 360 was released in 2005. Pricing aside,...
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  With three days to go until Microsoft's (MSFT) Surface tablet officially launches on October 26th, WPcentral is reporting that customers have already started receiving...
  Unnamed sources speaking with Polygon say the Xbox One has a remote play feature between consoles, both hardwired and online, allowing friends to take over gameplay remotely. The demonstration the sources claim to have witnessed featured one Xbox One connecting to another using "a local hardwired connection between consoles,"...
  Microsoft's most iconic application suite -- Microsoft Office -- will be moving off the PC and the Windows OS to two mobile platforms, iOS and Android, in early 2013. But will customers in the enterprise, where Office has been a PC standard for years, really care? Office already runs...
  Microsoft is holding at least two notable events related to new product launches at the end of the month, according to invitations the company sent to VentureBeat today. The first is event coincides with the retail release of Windows 8 operating system on Oct. 25 in New York City....
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  Microsoft is holding at least two notable events related to new product launches at the end of the month,...
  Aiming to compete with the likes of Apple's iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and Google's Nexus, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is building a 7-inch Surface tablet. Sources tell the WSJ that a new lineup of tablets, including a 7-inch version, will go into production later this...
  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has indicated that the software giant's foray into the hardware sector is not a step they're likely to reverse any time soon, and that Microsoft will be releasing hardware beyond its just released Surface tablets. Microsoft's move into hardware production has angered some of its PC...
  Although Microsoft may have never intended to become a hardware company, it has quietly grown into one in many ways, from the constantly evolving peripherals it creates to the popular Xbox entertainment center. And while the Xbox hails from a different division, "Microsoft Hardware" itself has recently turned 30, and to...
  Microsoft webcams and headsets win Skype certification, avoid awkward family conversation
  Skype said this morning that its impartial labs have given its "Skype Certified" seal of approval to all of Microsoft's HD webcams and USB headsets, guaranteeing that users of the products will have "an optimal Skype experience," including HD video calls. Wait, all of Microsoft's webcams and headsets weren't already Skype certified? Nope, apparently...
  My desk isn't cool enough for this thing. That was my first thought after getting my hands on the Wedge Touch Mouse (pictured at right), a new piece of hardware from Microsoft that looks and feels like it belongs in the office of some hipster architect. It's one of...
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  My desk isn't cool enough for this thing. That was my first thought after getting my hands on the...
  Microsoft showed its intention to get serious with hardware sales in China when it opened its Online Store in the country in October last year, and now it is stepping things up after it beefed up its presence on Tmall, China's largest consumer retail site, with a new 'flagship' store....
  A demo in Taiwan of new devices running the highly hyped reboot of Microsoft's Windows operating system was memorable mostly for its glitches, prompting Microsoft representatives to say some of the devices were not quite up to speed....
  Microsoft was able to maintain a high level of secrecy before revealing its new Surface tablets due in part to the fact that the devices appear to have been developed in a literal underground bunker. Speaking with TechRadar, Microsoft hardware executive Stevie Bathiche said the company avoided its usual design...
  Ballmer on Microsoft hardware: More, more more
  From the source's itself it's now confirmed what we've already suspected: Microsoft's hardware ambitions won't end with the Surface. Says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to the BBC: Is it fair to say we're going to do more hardware? Obviously we are. We did our first piece of non-Xbox hardware when we launch the Surface. Where...
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  From the source's itself it's now confirmed what we've already suspected: Microsoft's hardware ambitions won't end with the Surface. Says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to...
  'Skulls of the Shogun' is a terrific strategy game that works on all your Microsoft hardware
  Skulls of the Shogun is an interesting experiment in cross-platform gaming: it's a multiplayer strategy game available for the Xbox 360, Windows 8, Surface, and Windows Phone, letting you play with your friends no matter which device they're using. While the limited success of some of those platforms could...
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  Skulls of the Shogun is an interesting experiment in cross-platform gaming: it's a multiplayer strategy game available for the...
  Microsoft built its identity on software development. Just refer to the name, and pay special attention to the "soft." But throughout its storied history, the company has progressively become much more of a multi-discipline workshop, producing physical gear alongside ethereal software code. And now we have the Surface RT...
  Press Start: next-gen consoles "ahead" of high-end PCs, Xbox One specs and more
  Plus, EA supporting current gen until 2017, why Microsoft is wrong about indies, and why the games industry hates sharingA selection of links, hand-picked by the Guardian games writers.EA: Xbox One and PS4 "are a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market" | MCVRajat Taneja, the executive...
  Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They're things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. 30 years ago, Microsoft Hardware was born. The Word...
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  Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own...