NDP: Xbox 360 America's best-selling

Continue your Xbox 360 (Xbox 360) from Microsoft's top spot on the list of the most best-selling video game consoles in the United States of America for the second month and thirty respectively. According to a NDP-American Research, sales of your Xbox 360 has reached about 96,000 units during the month of August last, while reached retail sales of the device and set suffixes and special programs in the United States in the same period to $ 213 million according to the same source.

It is worth mentioning that your Xbox 360 has a popular base, saying, as he was able to compete gaming platform other PlayStation 3 (PlayStation 3) from Sony, in addition to achieve for several awards during the month of August the most important entry 6 games on the device list of the best 10 games in the world

Xbox device competition Wen

Trying to Microsoft Corporation of America to remain on the list of high-profile companies and competition in the video games and that's when recently revealed your Xbox Wen (Xbox One) which will be available in the second of the month of November of this year and across 13 countries: the United States of America, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom.

This waiting for Microsoft to achieve its new great success, as expected, deputy director of marketing for Xbox Yusuf Mehdi to expand the base of players and users in Europe to 200%, especially since Microsoft has been able to reap more than 100 prizes will increase to attract a lot of companies The game developers at E3 event , and who will be providing their products exclusively for your Xbox Wen also promised to Microsoft.

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NDP: Xbox 360 America's best-selling

Microsoft intends to conduct a comprehensive restructuring

Microsoft intends to conduct a comprehensive restructuring

Citing sources close to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is preparing to make the process of restructuring in the company will lead to the transfer of some executives to important new positions.

The source pointed out that these changes, which will focus on the consolidation of Microsoft's position as a devices and services, which wrote about Palmer in the annual speech directed to shareholders in October last year, and these changes will continue to have obtained a fundamental change as well.

And more specifically about the new important positions sources reported that the number of executives will receive additional new functions, including Satya Nadella, head of servers and tools, Tony Bates, head of the communication, Skype, and Don Mattrick, head of interactive entertainment.

But it is not yet clear what additional tasks entrusted to them or to other senior executives at the company level.

Microsoft wants these changes to re-ask itself as a hardware company, not just services company, and will confirm the orientation on Dual individuals and corporate clients, and simplify the management of the company.

It was Steve Ballmer wrote in his speech that this major shift in the company in terms of activities and how Microsoft sees itself as a services and devices. This will have its effect on the way the company's management and the development of new expertise and innovation and devices placed on the market for consumers and business.

And suggested analyst Rick Sherlund observer of Microsoft Corporation since its launch on the stock exchange on the company that sells the Gaza Bing search engine in addition to the entertainment industry and gaming Xbox so as to compensate the company's shareholders returns for good, whilst another analyst that Microsoft may be the largest cloud computing in the world.

It is noteworthy that Microsoft may share price rose 31% during the past six months.

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Microsoft may reward you for watching TV

Revealed a patent was filed by Microsoft last year about the company's plan to link the achievements and results with watching TV to take advantage of the system a terminal connect camera with Xbox device which monitors the behavior of TV viewers.

Does not provide patent details confirmed that Microsoft intends to provide such track record television viewers or monitor viewers to your Xbox 360 or Xbox Wen new, but this remains one of the examples that you can think of the company in order to increase its control over the home entertainment where no The device just Xbox gaming device only.

And Microsoft now allows viewers to interact with the ads via Connect terminal through a program known the NUads program name and which uses photosensitive Connect to allow users to publish ads on social networks.

And Microsoft had indicated in her speech about privacy with this advertising program that traditional TV viewing experience has become a thing of the past, where the TV does not allow the interaction of the viewer with what they watched. Microsoft has been considering adding the achievements of watching TV as a new way for the viewer to interact with the displays.

She wrote Microsoft that in order to increase the interactive viewing and encourage the user to watch videos more about a certain topic, the advantages of rewards and achievements may bind to these sections so that all you see more gets the points and rewards more may be gifts or digital discount coupons and others.

The viewer will receive rewards after ways, for example, can ask him to watch the entire series from beginning to end without any interruption in the episodes, or watch commercials within certain programs, or the work of a certain thing by the viewer.

Microsoft had focused too much on the potential of your Xbox Wen with the TV during the last conference, in addition to focus on the integration of sound and motion with the experience of watching TV.

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