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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has clarified that its upcoming videogame console Xbox One would not require a Kinect sensor for it to operate. However, the sensor would still be part of the bundle as a basic accessory. This means that although Kinect comes with the package, a player does not need to use it just to play the game. This clarification reverses the company’s previous announcement that Kinect would have to be connected to Xbox One to make the device work. Still, the company asserts that the second-generation motion sensor remains an important and integral component of the gaming platform.
ChinaCache and Microsoft Establish Strategic Partnership (BusinessWeek)
ChinaCache Internatnl Hldgs Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:CCIH), the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, announced today that it has established a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT). The Company’s self-service CDN platform, Webluker, will integrate its CDN and other services with Windows Azure China and provide these services to customers in China, and will migrate its hosting to Windows Azure in China in the meantime. …”We are pleased to have ChinaCache Internatnl Hldgs Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:CCIH) as our strategic partner for Windows Azure China. The Company has provided Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) with valuable services for more than six years, and we are delighted to take our partnership to the next level with this agreement.
BlackBerry Advisers Eyeing Microsoft (HispanicBusiness)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is among the tech giants BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) advisers are eyeing as likely buyers of the smartphone maker, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The Redmond, Wash., software company expressed an interest in the Waterloo, Ontario, pioneer in wireless handheld devices and services more than a year ago, but it didn’t result in a deal. A Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)-BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) combination could make Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) a more substantial player in the smartphone race, the Journal said. But it would also likely create difficulties with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s current partnership with Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), another former cellphone leader, the newspaper said.
Microsoft upgraded at Evercore (CNBC)
Nvidia “Working Really Hard” on Second-Generation Microsoft Surface – Chief Executive. (xBitLabs)
While sales of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s Surface RT-series tablets have been dismal in particular and ARM-compatible Windows RT has so far been seen as a disappointment in general, chief executive officer of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) continues to believe that the latter operating system will actually skyrocket. At present, NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are working “really hard” on the second generation of Surface media tablets running Windows RT operating system, according to Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)…
