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Daily Report: $8.5 Billion Skype Deal Presents A Puzzle
nytimes.com 1 day, 22 hours agoSkype must be able to give Windows and other Microsoft products an edge for Microsoft to justify the $8.5 billion it paid. One important milestone will come this year, when Skype is expected to release a preliminary version of its calling software that runs on Windows 8, an overhaul of Microsoft's flagship operating system intended to work well with touch-screen computers.
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Sony And Microsoft Were Planning Disc-free Next-gen Consoles
dvice.com 11 hours, 37 minutes agoIt was rumored that Sony's next PlayStation (currently code-named "Orbis" ) and Microsoft's next-gen Xbox ( code-named Durango ) might either lose the optical drive in favor of digitally-downloaded games or have "anti-used" securities in place. The Wall Street Journal's learned that these ideas were once very real at some point during development.


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