2 days 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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10 days 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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10 days 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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11 days ago
wearehugh : IEBlog : IE8 Performance - "To date we have fixed just under 400 separate memory leaks in Internet Explorer."
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15 days 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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20 days 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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24 days 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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28 days ago
nelson : Olympics / Silverlight bundling - Markoff calls out Microsoft's strategic move in making Olympics video use their new technology
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2 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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2 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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2 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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3 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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3 month ago
nelson : Add Gadget - tasteful, simple cpu and network meters for vista's silly sidebar
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Get Ready For A New Platform War. - Google has made no secret of its plans to target and harm Microsoft, and they know that the best way to go about that is to make the operating system irrelevant by moving up a layer and turning the browser into a standard, but powerful, virtual machine fo
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3 month ago
deusx : Microsoft Vista is a Not-so-Functional Innovation: Part 1 - The Bullpen - "Microsoft intended Vista to be more user friendly, but it is only more user friendly for beginner users, from what I have learned."
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3 month ago
wearehugh : Steven Poole: Virtually on parity - "We can’t say that: it’s true."
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3 month ago
gleuschk : PC World - ODF Wins the Office Document Format War? - Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will bring improved XML support to the office suite -- but it will be ODF, and not Microsoft's own format.
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4 month ago
wearehugh : Betalogue » Blog Archive » Word 2008: How to assign command-G to ‘Find Next’ - epic
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4 month ago
wearehugh : IEBlog : IE and Windows XP Service Pack 3 - that whole "making the browser part of the OS"? not a good idea in the long run
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4 month ago
nelson : Google/Yahoo analysis - Insightful reading of Google's strategy with advertising
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4 month ago
Linkorama : If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - Nice to have lawyers to blog these things for you. Quite interesting analysis.
Andy Baio : Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover - the best explanation I've seen [via]
gleuschk : blog.pmarca.com: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - very clear explanation
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Live Mesh - it’s everything we told you about (and a lot more)
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5 month ago
plasticbag : Best picture on the Internets secretly plays out the epic battles of large multi-national web companies... - The lightning represents innovation.
veen : Brandon Bird: "Bad Day on the High Sea" - Hands-down the best picture on the entire Internet. (via Cotes)
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5 month ago
plasticbag : Ho hum. The sea krakens are at it again. I wonder what will happen. Perhaps they'll mate or something. - Difficult to really get too worked up about stuff like this, to be honest.
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