Microsoft News Roundup - Play Tag on Bing, Xbox 720 info leaks and MS announces new Win8 hardware

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Aye, after my long trip to "the Peg" in Canada (more than on that later), I'm dorsum with some more Microsoft news that's too proficient to turn down. Today's stories:

Bing gets Facebook "tagging" today
Xbox 720 info leaked looks real
Microsoft announces new mice, keyboards for Windows 8

And then head on by the break for the full scoop on all of this exciting news…

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Tag your friends with questions on Bing

We're big users of Bing around here but not so much Facebook, so we're a piddling less excited near this motility today by Microsoft but it is a big bargain. In the company's standing quest to make Bing cool and relevant, the visitor is amping upward its Facebook integration.

The Bing team announced today that you can commencement to "tag" your friends with Bing questions when you practise searches.:

"When searching on Bing, simply enter a question or comment in the sidebar and blazon the name of a friend on Facebook to tag him or her (you can tag up to five friends at a time).

With your permission, the question volition post on your Facebook timeline, and your tagged friends will exist notified so that they tin pitch in and aid you lot discover what you're looking for. Remember - yous are always in control of what you lot share through the sidebar."

We suppose if nosotros used Facebook this would be awesome and we're hoping most of you will brand use of it. What do you lot think though…volition Microsoft's close human relationship with Facebook pay off for Bing? Source: Bing Blog

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Side by side gen Xbox dev kit details leaked?

In what is one of the about interesting stories of the day, the programmer kit for the Xbox "720" (or any it will be chosen). The and then called Durango kit was leaked online in a forum, for sale no less ($ten,000) and had a few pictures to accompany the postal service every bit well.

The kit looks like cipher more a black PC box with a monitor, some Matrix-similar graphics and 'Durango' on the screen. But that interesting role is that the reputable site Eurogamer has managed to corroborate those photos with some real game-houses to confirm they are the real deal.

And so what are we looking at? It's a 64-chip system (thought to be Windows 8/NT at information technology's cadre), 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GPU. Information technology's likewise rumored to be working with an 8-core CPU and will be 6x as powerful equally the current 360 hardware.

Dev kits though are non the same as release hardware and so we should focus likewise much on that finish (higher RAM is needed for dev tools and such) but it seems like the "720" may be farther along than many believe. Could we exist seeing a late 2022 release? Probably non simply we may become a tease of it before the yr is out. See our earlier coverage of the Microsoft roadmap leak for the Xbox 720.Source: Eurogamer.net

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New keyboards and mice coming for Windows 8—now listed on Microsoft'south site, buy today

Nosotros mentioned a few weeks ago that Microsoft had a new 'wedge' series of peripherals coming to Windows viii and now the deets are posted.

In a press release the company announced the following products for their Windows 8 release this fall:

Wedge Affect Mouse
Wedge Mobile Keyboard
Sculpt Touch Mouse
Sculpt Mobile Keyboard
Affect Mouse

Each series has its own advantages including mobility, comfort and style, have BlueTrack engineering to work on any surface (a must for laptop users) and over a sleek minimalist design.

Which one are you going for, if any? We're almost to society ourselves the Affect Mouse and like the Sculpt Mobile keyboard. You lot?

Source: Microsoft, Microsoft Hardware

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