7 days ago
Linkorama : Why Now? - Windows Live - For eight years (1992-2000), I was the driving force behind Microsoft's effort to make its Technology Evangelism (TE) efforts more efficient, effective, and ruthless, by studying both the practice and the theory of TE. After leaving Microsoft in 2000
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Rod Begbie : 30GB Zune apocalypse arrives as devices enter digital coma - All 30Gb Zunes go kaput simultaneously. The only reason these devices care what day it is? The secure clock used by their DRM. [via] #
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deusx : Microsoft Internet Explorer users told to switch browsers over 'zero-day' flaw | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "Microsoft is trying to put together a patch, but in the meantime computer users have been advised to update their security settings or switch to unaffected browsers such as Firefox or Opera. ... The flaw in IE allows criminals to gain control of com
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Rod Begbie : Softwear by Microsoft, A Clothing Line - Microsoft would like to sell you the billg mugshot on a T-shirt. Bizarre. [via] #
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3 month ago
nelson : Microsoft buying search - More garbage from MS trying to inflate usage of their anemic Live search service
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4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Penny Arcade! - Consensus - A pretty accurate representation of the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft ads. [via] #
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4 month ago
nelson : Ensemble Studios shutdown - Troubling news; Microsoft shutting down one of their great game studios
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4 month ago
Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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4 month ago
deusx : Hi, I'm a Mac… Beep, beep! - The Fishbowl - "It's pretty common, when reading discussion of Apple's “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads, to come across the comment: Sure, they're great ads but they don't work. John Hodgeman’s PC is far more likeable than Justin Long’
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Microsoft debuts new Vista ad with Gates and Seinfeld - aside from Bill's mugshot, a rambling and unfunny ad [via]
deusx : Windows ad w/ Seinfeld - I don't think I know what I just watched here. Was it an ad for delicious.com?
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4 month ago
wearehugh : Re: Got a pirated copy of XP? Expect to be nagged - "Dear Microsoft: In reviewing our relationship over the past years, it occurs to me that I haven't been falsely accused of being a thief enough lately."
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4 month ago
Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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4 month ago
wearehugh : IEBlog : IE8 Performance - "To date we have fixed just under 400 separate memory leaks in Internet Explorer."
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5 month ago
plasticbag : God, will you look at these Microsoft TV adverts from the last ten thousand years. - Some of them are so painful, I can't watch them all the way through.
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5 month ago
Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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5 month ago
wearehugh : Microsoft Live Search cashback Program - The Finance Buff - "Will Google match or beat what Microsoft does in its Live Search cashback program?" i'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess "No."
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5 month ago
nelson : Olympics / Silverlight bundling - Markoff calls out Microsoft's strategic move in making Olympics video use their new technology
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6 month ago
Linkorama : 21 Great Technologies That Failed - The most innovative tech doesn't always succeed. Here we present 10 great technologies each from Apple and Microsoft that were simply too far ahead of their time.
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6 month ago
deusx : Xbox 360: Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming Netflix Player - "Netflix subscribers, if you've got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don't have to shell out $99 for Roku's Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen—you already have everything you need."
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant - Even billg gets frustrated by the pain of Windows Update. [via] #
Khoi Vinh : Bill Gates on Windows Usability - An old message in which Gates details his experience trying to find, purchase, download and install his company’s own MovieMaker software.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon | The three survivors - but it “put them in the curio cabinet” without transforming the company, says Jerry Michalski, a technology consultant. Yahoo! was “so bent on being the future”, he says, that it “missed the new”.
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7 month ago
nelson : Add Gadget - tasteful, simple cpu and network meters for vista's silly sidebar
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