PayPal can now be used to purchase Microsoft Points from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace if you’d rather not use your credit card information on your account.

Microsoft will be phasing out the Microsoft Points virtual currency system used on Xbox Live and Zune by the end of the year, according to a report this afternoon by Inside Mobile Apps, citing an ...

WHAT TO BUY Now for the good stuff. What you can, and should, buy for 400 Microsoft Points. You may not think you can get much, but you can. You can get games, and good games at that.

Microsoft Points are going away very soon. Like, as soon as the next Xbox 360 system update. You'll be able to turn all your meaningless points into real money whenever that happens.

So what can you buy with 20 Microsoft Points? Well, not a lot, unless you want to buy a new gamerpic for your profile. Barely anything on Xbox LIVE Marketplace is priced below 80 Microsoft Points.

With an expected price point of 79 Microsoft Points per track, comparable to iTunes usual 99 cents per track fee, users will be able to buy music with the digital currency currently used on ...

I’m no fan of using Microsoft Points to purchase Xbox Live content. The idea that you can only purchase preset amounts of points, which are always more than what you actually need, discourages me from ...

But the biggest reason is Microsoft Points. Microsoft raised a lot of hopes by revealing you could buy movies and music with an actual credit card, like a human being, in Windows 8, only to turn ...

Microsoft Points have been around since the Xbox 360 launched in 2005. MS Points were originally used to buy Xbox Live Arcade games and downloadable content for Xbox 360 games, though their use ...

XBOX users have access to a rewards program that can help them play games for free. Microsoft's Rewards Program has been around for nearly two decades. Sometimes referred to as Microsoft Points ...

Microsoft's Azure cloud services got a boost of 13 percentage points from the fast-growing demand for AI applications that the company has been offering on its platform.