Microsoft has offered the first real demonstration of its external HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 since its fleeting appearance at E3, but remains silent on pricing or a confirmed release date.

LOS ANGELES--Microsoft on Monday offered the first glimpse of the external HD-DVD drive built for the Xbox 360 game console. Kevin Collins, senior program manager at Microsoft, demonstrated the HD-DVD ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...