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Age of Empires Online
Aug 17th
Age of Empires is one of the most popular strategy game ever. Age of Empires have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Age of Empires Online is the next game in the ‘Age of Empires’ franchise. In Age of Empires online you begin the journey with your own Greek civilization, and watch as it progresses from a village to an empire. Embark on quests along the way, alone or with friends, and immerse yourself in epic tales, quirky characters, adventure, history and strategy.
“Age of Empires Online” will feature:
- A persistent online capital city that lives and grows even when you’re offline
- Cooperative multiplayer quests, trading and a level-based system that lets you progress at your own pace
- Fun, approachable style and storylines
- Free-to-play experiences via Games for Windows – LIVE
You can sign up for Age of Empires Online beta here.
Pretty exciting…huh?
Microsoft selling 7+ Windows 7 copies/second
Jul 24th
Windows 7 is no doubt a really awesome operating system… it’s faster, sleeker, looks cool and is productive also. Windows 7 is the best Windows operating system yet. And apparently people too have realised it. Microsoft has reported in their quarterly report that Windows 7 has hit 175 million licenses sold which means they are selling more than seven copies of Windows 7 per second and 20 million copies per month. The figures are very encouraging and impressive considering that it’s only nine months since Windows 7 was released. As of today – Windows 7 is now running on more than 16% of all PCs worldwide.
This is not going to slow down anytime soon because most of the companies are still waiting for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 before they upgrade to Windows 7 which is further going to increase these sales figures.
This figures clearly say that Microsoft and Windows is still in the game and are not planning to go anywhere for a long time.
[via Windows Blog]
Windows XP’s life extends for 10 more years
Jul 13th
Windows Xp is really going to be the operating system that never dies. It was going out of support many times last year but Microsoft kept extending it’s life, after all it is still the most used operating around. And a lot of netbooks still ship with Windows XP preinstalled. Microsoft has did this again, Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP for 10 more years.
According to Microsoft : Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7. Enabling such rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle will make it easier for customers as they plan deployments to Windows 7.
Well that means Windows XP would be alive as long as Windows 7 is alive and that is 2020. So now IT departments or users or anyone else can buy a copy of shiny new Windows 7 and downgrade it to Windows XP, something which was first released on October 25, 2001.
