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When I heard that Microsoft had banned a player on Xbox because she had identified herself as a lesbian I became angry, almost irrationally so.
It took me about a week to figure why this small inconsequential story so riled me up. I understand Microsoft’s position after all words like gay, Jew and black are often [...]
Tags: gay, Microsoft, xbox live
The latest patch is a big one, so big that Microsoft hustled it out the door on a Thursday instead of the normal patch day of Tuesday. So if you’ve been ignoring your automatic updates now’s the time to update.
Below is the Executive Summary provided by Microsoft.
Executive Summary
This security update resolves a privately reported [...]
Tags: Microsoft, patch, update
Sometimes a piece of software honestly earns the moniker beta. Such is the case with Microsoft’s PC Advisor.
While polished in look and feel and slightly more useful than the built in error reporting tools, the fixes provided are still often way off the mark and far to generic to be of real use.