To clear up confusion surrounding Windows Blue, let me tell our readers that Microsoft isn’t going to call it Windows 9. Its not Windows 9. According to multiple sources, Microsoft will actually released Blue as part of the Windows 8 wave and not as an entirely new Windows platform update. It is going to be a refreshed version of Windows 8, and is expected to be released to manufacturing partners sometime in August. When it is going to be publicly released, Blue will lose its codename and will actually be called Windows 8.1.

If you’ve been using Google Translate on Windows or Android application or have difficulties in typing in your language on the Latin/English keyboard, Google is here to help you. The Search giant recently released what I would say, the biggest move towards localisation and native language support. The Google Input Tools. 

Finally. After approximately eight months of waiting for the Surface Pro, Microsoft has announced it’s full-featured tablet computer, will be hitting stores in both the US and Canada February 9th, 2013.

For those not aware, the Surface lineup was Microsoft’s attempt at designing both the hardware and software for a tablet computer. The move was quite a shock to OEM partners who saw Microsoft turn into a powerful competitor. The devices featured a unique touch cover which also worked as a keyboard. The Redmond based company launched with the standard Surface, which could only run Windows RT; this meant that the device couldn’t run legacy desktop apps because of it’s mobile ARM Processor.

The Surface Pro, on the other hand, comes with an Intel i5 processor. It can also run current Windows 7 Desktop apps as well as ones from the Microsoft Store. Retail prices start at $899 up to $999, for 64GB to 128GB models, respectively. Both Pro models ship with the Surface Pen as well.

Anyone with an Xbox 360 is well familiar with Microsoft and their point system, whereby 80 Microsoft Points = $1. While it seems simple it becomes difficult when you have an amount such as 2760 Microsoft points and have to whip out a calculator or a pen and paper to figure out the Dollar value of your current Microsoft points. According to the Verge Microsoft has gone and done away with Microsoft points in Windows 8 and is going to use real money prices over points. Now is the same change headed for the Xbox 360? Millions of users would surely be relieved if this dream were to finally become a reality.

GameStop released a press release where they revealed the details for the pre-order bonuses for the North American FIFA 13(FIFA Soccer 13), which is quite similar to the Ultimate Edition in the UK. The people who pre-order a copy will get their game in a steelbook case and will get free gold packs for the next six months for free.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier hit the North American market yesterday for the PC platform. And it was greeted by complaints and anger towards Ubisoft by the fans who had bought the game. The fans demanded that the PC version of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was to receive a patch which would fix the prominent problems.

Player taking cover behind a broken wall, automated turret in the background

Finalware, the company behind the renowned benchmarking software AIDA64, has now announced the availability of the AIDA64 Extreme Edition 2.50 software with also the immediate launch availability of the Business edition 2.50 as well that is itself an essential network management tool for small and medium scale enterprises.

As a lot of anticipated titles are being pushed to next year “Alien Colonial Marines” grabbed a spot in 2013 titles list, developer Gearbox Software recently announced the official release date for Alien Colonial Marines, February 12 with an in-game footage trailer.

Ubisoft has been teasing about the latest title in “Assassin’s Creed” franchise and hyped the fans to the edge of their chair’s but now the flame just got ignited through the first gameplay trailer from “Assassin’s Creed 3″.

Bioshock Infinite one of the most anticipated game of 2012 is now the most anticipated game of 2013 recently announced a delay to the title by  developer “ken Levine” via “Kotaku”.

Irrational Games come to realize that some specific tweaks and improvements will make Infinite into something even more extraordinary and that the delay will give the development team the time they need. According to Levine, the original BioShock saw a similar delay shortly before its initial release date.