Xbox Live adds Cloud Storage in latest dashboard update

This week, Microsoft is releasing it newest system update for the Xbox 360, which is something of an annual event to add new capabilities and such.  Over the next several weeks, Xbox consoles will be able to gain access to a broader range of TV services (depending on where you are in the world), tighter [...]

December 6, 2011 · Jason · 2 Comments
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NXE is here – and my kids are loving the Avatars

Most of you know that aside from my vocational passion around Data Protection and Storage Solutions for Windows servers … my vice is video gaming, particularly with my family.  And in that vein, the kind folks at xbox.com have been letting me co-write about family games as XBOX DAD.. If you own an Xbox 360, [...]

November 18, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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XBOX DAD post — the power of Windows Home Server with an Xbox 360

  As you may have seen in some of my other gaming posts, I love it when my favorite things overlap – e.g. Star Wars and Video Games. In this month’s Xbox Dad article, my Windows Home Server hooked up with my Xbox360 and effect was beautiful (literally), as my family photos and video, along [...]

June 5, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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I am going to miss HD DVD

Farewell friend — we hardly knew ye. Yes, with the news that Toshiba is pulling out and Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the HD-DVD player add-on for Xbox360, the format war is over. And that is a good thing. While we early adopters may have had to bet on two horses, mainstream consumers [...]

February 25, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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My Xbox 360 has its own blog

Everybody is blogging. I’ve been blogging at Microsoft for almost a year — with my sincere thanks to all of you who read that blog. Recently, I started contributing to some larger blogs within Microsoft, including: SYSTEM CENTER – the family of management products from Microsoft that DPM is part of WINDOWS SERVER – which totally [...]

January 25, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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