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For Christmas this year, I was finally able to shed the cash to pick up an Xbox 360 along with a Kinect. While I do enjoy playing the games, what I’m most enthralled by is using the Kinect when watching TV.

People keep talking about a forthcoming Apple TV, and I welcome it with open arms, but right now Microsoft has the right tool to shake up the market.

On Tuesday, Microsoft is launching a new app for Windows Phone handsets to help Xbox 360 owners navigate their game console.

The timing is in conjunction with the company's living room push to bring more music and video content to the Xbox 360 console.

If you have never used OnLive, the streaming, cloud-based gaming service, let me tell you about its most surprising feature: It actually works.

Somehow, despite the fact that all of the computation and rendering is done on a remote server, and that the graphics and audio have to be encoded and sent across the internet, gaming with OnLive is really very good.

Now, however — starting in 2012 — OnLive wants to tap into the real money: It wants to use its technology to provide the PC desktop as a service.

With more than 100 million active users a month and a market share of nearly 50 percent, uTorrent is without doubt the most-used BitTorrent client.

IT Runs on Linux: Hackers GliGli & Tiros developed a Hack which glitches all recent Xbox 360 Kernels to run unsigned code on.

Microsoft reported its FY11 Q4 results on Thursday, beating analysts' expectations, despite a dip in Windows revenue for the second consecutive quarter.

Total revenue for the quarter was buoyed by Office 2010 sales and continued strength in the Entertainment and Devices division, lead by the Xbox 360 gaming console.

Before you go leaping to any conclusions, do remember that Microsoft plans on keeping the Xbox 360 going until at least 2015 so we're not