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Sources: Microsoft to close completely its Aces game studio
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| It was unclear on January 22, the day Microsoft announced plans to lay off
| 5,000 employees, exactly which products, teams and job functions were cut.
| The day after, it still is fairly murky.
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| But it does seem that tips that the company’s Entertainment & Devices (E&D)
| unit (Windows Mobile, Xbox, Zune) was impacted most heavily by the first
| round of layoffs. And it’s increasingly sounding like the games side of the
| house bore the brunt of the E&D cuts.
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| Microsoft has closed completely its Aces Studio, the game group that
| developed and maintained Flight Simulator, sources close to the company
| confirmed. Aces’ other franchises include Combat Flight Simulator and Train
| Simulator.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1839
Microsoft shuts down its Aces Studio
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/160234.asp?source=rss
Recent:
Microsoft Slaps PC Gamers, Decides to Close Ensemble Studios
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| Despite its legacy of producing some of the very finest strategy games with
| its Age of Empire and Age of Mythology series, Microsoft decided that it
| would be financially disadvantageous to continue to operate the wholly-owned
| Ensemble Studios.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-ensemble-halo-age-empires,6343.html
Microsoft shuts down Ensemble Studios
http://www.techspot.com/news/31575-microsoft-shuts-down-ensemble-studios.html
Microsoft Burns Down Book Search
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| Citing poor demand, Microsoft will back away from scanning and indexing books
| and academic works for Live Search
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/23/microsoft-burns-down-book-search
EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN
| Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an
| apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the
| Zune music player.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9931304-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
MSN Music Debacle Highlights EULA Dangers
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| MSN Music’s EULA is a case in point. When active, MSN Music's webpage touted
| that customers could “choose their device and know its going to work”.
|
| But when customers went to purchase songs, they were shown legalese that
| stated the download service and the content provided were sold without
| warrantee. In other words, Microsoft doesn't promise you that the service or
| the music will work, or that you will always have access to music you bought.
| The flashy advertising promised your music, your way, but the fine print
| said, our way or the highway.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/msn-music-debacle-highlights-eula-dangers
When DRM detonates your music collection
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| It is all down to the digital rights management (DRM) software that Microsoft
| has embedded in all its music downloads to combat illegal file-sharing. For
| DRM to work it needs a central computer to keep a live record of who has
| registered which songs to which computers. The problem is that the main
| server is now being turned off as the company wants to sell downloads with a
| new type of DRM. How odd that the old system was marketed as PlaysForSure.
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3898784.ece
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