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$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft - AP
ap.google.com — BOSTON (AP) — The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.More… (Microsoft)
maxinoMicrosoft Surface Model -- She's now an American Gladiator view!
oboyDownload Now: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released
worldwidetelescope.org — Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth.More… (Microsoft)
chandan333Windows 7 Features Demo watch!
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Zune breaks 2 million sold, stealing market from Creative
engadget.com — Microsoft is still toiling away at the Zune, but there isn't a whole terrible much to show for it so far in regards to market impact. They just broke the 2 million mark, almost a year after they hit 1 million in May 2007. That means growth has hardly accelerated since the second-gen players hit the scene. More… (Microsoft)
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Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started
nytimes.com — Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.More… (Microsoft)
noupsellMSN messenger blocking youtube links!?!?
neogaf.com — At first I thought it was just me. But then I googled for it and found a forum where people were experiencing the same problem. On MSN, type www.youtube.com and the message won't pass.The curious thing is that if you alter any of the letters in the domain (i.e. changing it to youtuve.com ) the message gets effectively passed. WTF, Microsoft?More… (Microsoft)
Microsoft warns of IE7 lock-in with XP SP3
computerworld.com — You can't go backwards or forwards with SP3, truly 'screwed' down.More… (Microsoft)
putergirl
New Live Search homepage: innovations nowhere to be seen
arstechnica.com — There's more blue and green everywhere, but not many changes to functionality or usability from the end-user perspective. If this is all Microsoft could pull together after working on the new update for so long, I understand why Ballmer wanted Yahoo so badly.More… (Microsoft)
What to Do When Windows Gets Really Messed Up
pcworld.com — Even when Windows routinely gives you the Blue Screen of Death all may not be lost. We'll show you how to restore both your data and your sanity. More… (Microsoft)
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Does Ballmer Need To Go?
techcrunch.com — Microsoft’s dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo’s shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?More… (Microsoft)
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Microsoft Hit with Patent Suit Over RoundTable
cio.com — A company that develops cameras, FullView, that produce 360-degree videos is suing Microsoft for alleged patent infringement in its RoundTable conferencing product.FullView's patent, which builds on other patent applications dating back to 1995, covers a camera system that combines the fields of view of several cameras to form a continuous 360-deg.More… (Microsoft)
Vista's 11 Pillars of Failure
[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]pcmag.com — From poor marketing to missing components, here are my reasons why Vista will forever fail.More… (Microsoft)
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Adobe guru to improve Windows interface
news.com — It looks like Mark Hamburg, a Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom programming guru, will be leading work to give Microsoft Windows a better user interface. And given the dramatic user interface differences between earlier and later Adobe projects that Hamburg worked on, that raises some very intriguing possibilities. Microsoft and Adobe Systems had...More… (Microsoft)
brantwMicrosoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene
seattletimes.nwsource.com — Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes. The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. More… (Microsoft)
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