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  Edge magazine is on a roll lately with next-gen news. Last week we anxiously read that the latest Playstation may be revealed very soon. Now now we have news about Sony’s competitor, the next Xbox. Microsoft’s next-gen console is without a doubt going to be revealed some time soon. In the meantime, gamers worldwide [...]

Image Credit: Engadget Many of you have been waiting on a great Windows Phone to hit the market and just intime for the holiday a huge host of them have! The beloved Lumia 920 is finally about touch ground and take you hard earned money! But before you run out and sign a two-year contract [...]

I’m Back!!!! And do I have a treat for you. This isn’t some sort of trickery. I last left you for dead in August, because I was busy playing Hawken on the PC, and my god will it be amazing! On to this month’s build; this set-up is meant for those who just want to [...]

Starting Tuesday, October 16th you will be able to get your hands on some sweet sweet music streaming. Along side a Xbox 360 dashboard update comes “Xbox Music”  a new service that aims to stream unlimited music to your ears for the bargain price of $9.99. The services will be bundled with the update for Xbox and [...]

As if Windows 8 needed another punch to the gut. Minecraft creator Notch tweeted out his feelings on the Windows 8 marketplace. “I’d rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way..” -@notch The reasoning [...]

This week on The OS we go all in with the new devices out of IFA. I talk a bit about the hardware in the new Tablets, Convertibles  and Touchsreen Ultrabooks. Do they pack the punch that you need? I personally do not think so, but then again I am not the average consumer. Andy has all [...]

On a recent call with The Vergcast, Brian Hall, a General Manager in Windows, mentioned a “new Xbox” while listing some of Microsoft’s new products and releases. The call was focused on the new Outlook and how it will live on forthcoming devices. “We just decided it was time to do something new and bring the [...]

  The Rundown: Should I buy Windows 8? For 90% of you out there it won’t really make a difference whether or not you’re using Windows 8 or an older Windows OS that’s still currently viable. It’s Windows with a new shell(surprise!). On its forefront they have thrown a Metro UI into the mix(which has [...]

Last month I brought you a series of builds that would best fit your interests without doing some serious damage on your wallet, now I will put together a new build. I will provide a new build every month, going from Budget to High-Performance. The build below is classified as “Budget”, in the price scheme “Budget” [...]

At a press conference in Los Angeles today, Microsoft announced that they were finally pushing all-in to the hardware game. How you might ask? Well, by building their own tablet. They call it the Microsoft Surface, a tablet built by Microsoft for Microsoft. Now I know you might be asking what is so important about [...]