Tag Archives: Microsoft

WASHINGTON: Major Firms Including Microsoft Endorse Same-Sex Marriage

Six major Washington state corporations including Microsoft have issued a joint letter endorsing the marriage equality bill proposed by Gov. Christine Gregoire. The Seattle Times reports: As letters of support go, it’s very short: “We write you today to show the support of our respective companies for SB 6239 and HB 2516 recognizing marriage equality for same-sex couples.” In addition …

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Windows Vs Mac

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Organizational Flow Charts

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Microsoft To Kill The Zune

I’m just surprised that it lasted five years.

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Microsoft Issues IE6 Deathwatch

Microsoft wants everybody to stop using IE6 and has created a deathwatch countdown map.

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Google Busts Microsoft’s Bing

Google has busted Microsoft’s Bing for stealing search engine results. Google first suspected foul play in May 2010. By October 2010, with Bing results beginning to look uncannily like Google’s, it knew something had to be done about it — and so, in true, nerdtastic style, Google set up a sting to prove that Microsoft was actually behind the wholesale …

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Microsoft Employees: It Gets Better

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Daily Grumble

This here website thingy is looking totally whack in Internet Explorer. No idea what’s going on or what to do about it yet. Looking into it. Boo. PS: Why are you using Explorer?

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Double Rainbow Guy For Windows Live

It’s sort of amazing that they got him to do this.

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Your Unique Value

It looks like you’re worth about $18/month to Google. Or is per year? Confusing. I’m also not sure where the Twitter revenue even comes from. (Via – Business Insider)

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Where Microsoft Makes Its Profits

The company’s online division, including its widely ignored search engine Bing, is losing about $2B annually. And let’s not even talk about the Zune. It’s all about Office. Still.

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Microsoft Loses Word Patent Appeal

Microsoft has lost its appeal of a patent claim against Word, meaning they can no longer sell the disputed version of the word processing software. (Until they pay off the people who actually invented it.) The ruling, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — which handles many patent and trademark cases — may signal the …

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Google Sets Limit On Free News Access

Days after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced a partnership with Microsoft to block their news stories from search engines, Google has revealed that they have created a program to restrict readers from reading too many stories on news sites without paying. Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can …

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News Corp Teams Up With Microsoft To Block Google’s Indexing Of Their Stories

Wired reports that News Corp is working with Microsoft on their project to prevent Google from indexing stories from the Wall Street Journal, NY Post, and other News Corp-owned publications. News Corp has rattled its saber in Google’s direction for months, as chairman Rupert Murdoch accused the company of “stealing stories” by posting links and short article excerpts on its …

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The Windows 7 Whopper

Burger King is promoting Microsoft’s latest OS in Japan with the Windows 7 Whopper. Confirming our belief that Japan is at once among the coolest and craziest places on this planet we all call home is Burger King’s exclusive Windows 7 Whopper. Seven stacked beef patties extend your usual Whopper to over five inches in height and the whole thing …

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Microsoft Donates $100K To Approve R-71 Effort In Washington State

According to a report filed (PDF) with Washington state’s Public Disclosure Commission, Microsoft has donated $100,000 to the Approve Referendum 71 campaign. Dominic Holden at Slog: This took guts. Microsoft’s brazen role in R-71 will outrage the Ken Hutchersons of the world, who pressured Microsoft for years to back off from supporting gay-rights legislation. And it could also summon conservative …

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Google To Launch Operating System

Last month Microsoft challenged Google with their own search engine, the (as of yet) little used Bing. Today Google fired back with the announcement of their own operating system. Saying current operating systems were designed for a time when there was no World Wide Web, Google Inc. said Wednesday it will develop a new one based on its Chrome browser. …

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Why, Superman, Why?

Seriously, WTF is Microsoft thinking? Do NOT press play unless you are truly ready to be grossed out. You have been warned.

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Instead Of Wiimotes Crashing Through The Screen, It’ll Be Feet

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Microsoft Goes Gay For India

Homosexuality is still technically illegal in India, but that didn’t stop Microsoft from putting a gay twist on this ad for Explorer 8. (Via JMG reader Chris)

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