A new Time splitters game is in development and this news was confirmed by a “high ranking industry source”. Microsoft is said to announce the Xbox follow up at E3 next year. Microsoft’s DirectX 11 has been used as a standard for its graphical abilities by Crytek as per mole.

It is being said that Microsoft and Sony’s next-gen consoles won’t hit shelves before 2015. If the moles are to be believed then the Xbox ‘720’ should hit shelves in 2013.

A games developer has said that the successor to Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is expected to be disclosed at E3 2012. It has also claimed that of has been working on one of the first titles.

On the other hand it was stated by a senior source at Crytek to Videogamer. com that TimeSplitters 4 has been using Microsoft’s updated DX11 development tool and it is developed for the next-generation console.

Microsoft is making some strong moves to be able to make Bing easier for the users. For the same, they are going to make iPhone applications like sharing of content through Facebook easier and more attractive. It is hoping that it can differ itself from the Google's mobile offerings when it comes to iPhone and Android handsets.

DigiTimes report has stated that Microsoft is set to appear with its own branded tablet with the Windows 8 operating system in the year 2012, as revealed by the anonymous sources.

On Wednesday the tech journal has reported that the software giant would mingle with Texas Instruments. They would merge perhaps for the central processor, and Taiwan-based components makers.

The report was silent about the role for Nokia, which is heavily invested in Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform.

Along with other companies Microsoft has also denied about the equal online footing to Windows XP users.

The PC users can’t enjoy the access to iCloud; the Apple will not give this facility if their machines are running Microsoft's aging but still popular Windows XP.

Seeing the iCloud announcement, Apple has said that the users will need a PC running Windows Vista or Windows 7 to jump into Steve Jobs' version of the interwebs to enjoy the access to iCloud.

Looking at the press conferences organised by top console makers it is difficult to tell who did the best showing. The quality of performance changes from year to year and depends largely on what company decides to showcase which hardware. Most of the times it is the hardware only, that provides them the necessary edge over the others in the race.

Microsoft's Xbox Live has also made announcement after the Apple’s announcement relating to the Cloud. It has announced that it will also get Cloud storage later this year.

Larry Hyrb, the director of programming for Xbox Live has stated that they are planning to have Cloud storage for Xbox LIVE. The profile and game of the users is available wherever the user is.

Kinect Disneyland Adventures, which is one of a trio of upcoming games for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console system has made the game more like a virtual visit to the Magic Kingdom. The user can likely soar it the sky. The game is used by the hands-free Kinect controller.

Disney and Microsoft have planned to have the announcement of the upcoming games. It will unveil the games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

The players or users can have a tour to a virtual Disneyland, visit the castles and other landmarks and meet Disney characters and have a lot of fun.

Very soon, Hewlett-Packard Co. will include webOS system for all its hardware systems, such as tablet computers, PCs, and smartphones. This will bring the competition at par with Apple, Google and Microsoft. This might, however, pose a serious challenge to Microsoft Corp. whose Windows operating system runs on numerous PCs shipped by HP last year. Microsoft has been a long time partner of HP now. Leo Apothecker, the CEO said that it was expected of the company to have introduced webOS in the market sooner.

At a recent press conference in Taipei Microsoft Operating system unveiled a new version of Windows operating system which is completely new title-based interface that it hopes will suit the needs of new tablet PCs. Microsoft Operating system refers to this as a new re-imagining of Windows.

In a market where its operating system competes with other operating system from Google, Apple, etc. This new interface, however, is meant for all types of PCs.

Very soon, Hewlett-Packard Co. will include webOS system for all its hardware systems, such as tablet computers, PCs, and smartphones. This will bring the competition at par with Apple, Google and Microsoft. This might, however, pose a serious challenge to Microsoft Corp. whose Windows operating system runs on numerous PCs shipped by HP last year. Microsoft has been a long time partner of HP now. Leo Apothecker, the CEO said that it was expected of the company to have introduced webOS in the market sooner.

A famous hedge fund patron, David Einhorn, the chief of Greenlight Capital Fund has remarked that Steve Ballmer, the head of Microsoft Corporation should give up his position and let some other suitable person take his place. He also has outlook that it was Ballmer’s association with the company which was responsible for the largest hang over on the company’s share.

Steve Ballmer, leader of Microsoft has come out with the latest version of his company's operating system- Windows 8. It is going to be available from 2012. The announcement was made during the Microsoft Developer Forum in Tokyo. Ballmer said during the event that it has taken a lot of effort from Microsoft to produce Windows 8.

There are also reports in the PC Magazine that say that the company is also going to hit the tablet computers segment soon as well. As for the features, no such information has come out till now.

Various editions of the forthcoming Windows 8 specifically meant for Intel and devices support by ARM will now be created by Microsoft as declared by an Executive of Intel in a meeting of the company shareholders on the 18th of this month. S

imilar announcement have also been made by Microsoft itself some time earlier in January this year at the Consumer Electronic Show held in LA. The senior Vice-President of Intel, Renee James was also reported stating that Intel will now offer its own structural design for mobile appliances like tablets which will be supported by Windows.

As the launch of Microsoft's Mango comes closer, newer and more advanced features are being disclosed by Microsoft for its major upgrade to smartphone platform.

These features were discovered during the Microsoft's IT professional-oriented TechEd conference and includes upgrading of phone's e-mail client to support threaded views of email conversations. Then there is also server-side emailing and ability to pin email folders and RSS feeds for things like corporate messaging.