This week on tech, Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network get attacked by hacker group Lizard Squad causing service outage mainly on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Sony released the controversial film “The Interview” on selected movie theaters, on its website, Xbox Video and Google Play… And curiously the movie wasn’t available for rent or buy on the PlayStation Network.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection received a big update improving matchmaking, achievements, and more. Free games with Xbox Gold for January were announced. Activision announces free upgrade for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on Xbox 360 to Xbox One. For those on Xbox One, this week you learned how to customize the console for the holidays too.
The Microsoft Store continues with big technology product sales and this week the company is running the Year-End Sale offering up to 40% discount on Surface, Xbox One, PCs, and many other products.
The software giant brings Skype to Office Online, releases preparation tool for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to install Windows 10 January Technical Preview update, and makes available Surface recovery image for Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 2, Surface Pro, Surface 2 and Surface RT. All this and more…
Welcome to 10Alert: IT Digest edition. Each weekend I will bring you a compilation of articles of the week, including how-to guides, features, tech news, and more. This is simply a list with a brief description of pieces you might have missed or you might just want to read again.
- Solving the Xbox One 0x87DD0019 error trying to sign in to Xbox Live
- Free upgrade: Xbox 360 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to Xbox One
- Sony, The Interview movie available today on Xbox Video for $5,99 rental
- Here is what the Windows 10 preparation tool for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 really does
- Microsoft brings Skype to Office Online to improve productivity
- Pro tip: Customizing Xbox One for Christmas with custom backgrounds and colors
- Official Surface recovery image ready for download
- Microsoft preps Windows 8.1/7 to install Windows 10 Preview via Windows Update
- Microsoft Store Year-End Sale offers up to 40% off on Surface, Xbox, PCs, and more
- Big update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection released
- January Xbox One and Xbox 360 free games with Gold