Tag Archives: microsoft

Someday your 360 will die

It’s seemingly inevitable that if you have an Xbox 360 it will die. Soon. Hardware failures have happened to almost all my friends Xboxes. It even happened to my original Xbox years ago. And on Monday my Xbox 360 started … Continue reading

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How Do I Unsubscribe From Xbox Live?

From a Gamespot forum: call them to cancel 18004myxbox Expect to have a difficult time with customer service… make sure to write down the person’s name that is talking to you on the phone. When you are finished with the … Continue reading

Microsoft Unveils Xbox LIVE Labs

All this engineering talent at Microsoft dedicated to improving customer experience and service, but they still can’t figure out how to let people unsubscribe from Xbox LIVE Gold.1 Xbox Live Labs I called the number back in December to turn … Continue reading

Nobody’s subscribing to Zune Music Service

Why not? With Zune, Microsoft started on the desktop with a Zune application then branched out to phones and the Xbox, and now they have a web app. …as Nokia switches its still-wildly-popular mobile phones over to the Windows Phone … Continue reading

We don’t care what you were doing when it crashed

This dialog box has always annoyed me. This is the Microsoft error reporting process. A program crashes (in this case, Entourage) and it asks if you’d like to send an error report to Microsoft. But it doesn’t ask you to … Continue reading

Microsoft Determined To Make Your Head Explode With Outlook Social Connector

What a horrible fucking idea. Our vision for Outlook (and the OSC) is to provide a communications hub that is vital to both professional and personal communications; by integrating with both Facebook and MySpace, Outlook 2010 enables you to connect … Continue reading