2010 release for Microsoft Coruier?

Since breaking cover last week, the Microsoft Courier tablet has been getting tech-heads hot under the collar – and if an anonymous tipster is correct, it could be out a lot sooner than we’d been expecting.

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Microsoft launching a tablet?

Microsoft’s on a roll of late against long time rival Apple. Not content serving up the Zune HD to take on the iPod touch and Pink smartphones to rival the iPhone, it’s now rumoured to be gearing up a tablet to take on Cupertino’s – and it could be out at just the same time.

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£30 for Windows 7? Yes please!

Want Windows 7 but don’t fancy paying full price? That’s alright then, as Microsoft’s touting a legit way to nab a copy of the OS that rights the wrongs of Vista for just £30. Read on to find out how it’s done.

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Regular Zunes die at hand of Zune HD

Microsoft has never let us buy a Zune here in the UK, and if reports are true it looks like we may never get the chance – at least with this generation of the device. Blogger Paul Thurrot has spoken to Microsoft’s Zune team and was told that the Zune will be killed off in favour of the Zune HD.

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Take Two developing Natal games

Take Two boss Ben Feder has told investors that the company has several units of Microsoft’s motion-tracking thingamajig, Project Natal and that several development teams were working with the new device.

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EA: more console updates on the way

Top EA bod’ Rich Hilleman has thrown in his tuppence worth about plans for the next–generation of the very hottest consoles. After the PS3 Slim and the cheapo Xbox 360 Elite, he reckons both Sony and Microsoft will hedge their bets and release basic updates before unleashing full–on next–gen models.

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Bing + Wolfram Alpha = Google killer?

Defying all expectations, Microsoft’s Bing search engine met with positive reviews when it launched earlier this year, and now its results are about get a whole bit brainier: it’s inked a deal to show Wolfram Alpha’s sciencey search results.

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Xbox 360 fail rates revealed

It’s no secret that Xbox 360s have been bricking, conking out and flashing up red rings of death more often than Bill Gates has had hot dinners, but have you ever wondered what the RROD rate really is? Survey results putting them up against PS3 and Wii breakdown rates are out and they make for very interesting number crunching. Read on to see how the stats stack up.

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60GB Xbox 360 to enter console graveyard

So it looks like the rumours were bang on–the–money. Microsoft is preparing to kill off the 60GB Xbox 360, bringing the price of the Xbox 360 Elite down and possibly making the bog standard Arcade model pricier. Want to know how Microsoft is planning to counter the threat of the PS3 Slim? Then read on.

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Apple iPhone app developers for Zune HD Store?

Microsoft could be planning to launch an app store for its Zune HD media player – and according to reports has already offered at least one developer a “bucket of money” if he creates a Zune HD version his iPhone Twitter client.

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