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Could Sony build the console while Microsoft build the software?

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It’s all rumour, conjecture, and fanboy thinking, but there’s a certain logic to Sony and Microsoft pairing up for console gaming. Kotaku brings together some ideas, links and speculates: You could even look at that as another reason why Microsoft would be willing to cede the Xbox hardware business: Sony’s latest hardware experiments, like their tablets, run Google’s Android. It might be worth a few billion here and there to Microsoft to bring Sony more fully back into the fold. (See also: Nokia.) This is likely to be #qtwtain ("questions to which the answer is no") but with rising development

And over there, a teeny-tiny smartphone, selling coffee

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If Microsoft are serious in increasing their retails stores in the US from 11 stores to 87, then can I suggest they look beyond retail space and make theme cool places to hang out. Free wi-fi, a little coffee bar, comfy seats, rooms available for free use by clubs, societies and websites to arrange get-togethers. Make them as attractive to people as possible, and those people will over time help the bottom line, even if you might struggle to see the return in the till of the bricks and mortar stores. But seriously, a coffee bar. In every store.

Microsoft encourages developers to hack away at Mango

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We say tinker away with Mango and enjoy the juice… But beware the fine print — unlocking phones may void your warranty. Microsoft’s Bill Cox on All Thing D, showing yet again that the Microsoft Dev Team want people to hack around with Windows Phone to see what it can do. Stories like this are going to help developer adoption, detoxify Microsoft, and help build up trust between Redmond and the hackers. Which is a great thing to do. Oh and if you don’t want to hack, they’ve said every phone will get the mango update in the fullness of

Microsoft to focus all gaming effort on Xbox Live

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It’s already the online home of Xbox gamers, and as Windows Phone user now, gaming is all focused on a single "tile" in the smartphone operating system labelled Xbox Live. Arguably if the Zune media players were going strong, Games would be relabelled Xbox in the next firmware update. Now the PC side of things is coming under the same banner as Games for Windows Marketplace will be quietly integrated in Xbox on July 11th. From PC Mag: The move appears to be just one more step in Microsoft’s quest to make its Xbox Live platform the single source for