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  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Watch the Funniest Commerical Microsoft Has Ever Made

    Microsoft has set the bar pretty low for their commercials, probably peaking with getting the double rainbow guy to shill their photo-editing software. They would rather have Apple drive a hammer through their proverbial face than admitting room for improvement in their products. Which is why it's s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Anatomy of a Hoax: Study Showing Internet Explorer Users Have Low IQs Was Fake

    ​Oops! Hundreds of media outlets around the world--including Seattle Weekly, the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Forbes--reported last week on a study that found people who use Internet Explorer have lower IQs than users of other browsers. Apparently we were the fools.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Use Internet Explorer? You're Probably Dumb, Study Says

    ​People who use Internet Explorer have lower IQs than people who use other browsers like Firefox or Google Chrome, a new study finds. AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., company founded in 2006, administered 101,326 IQ tests to people who visited their website over a four-week period. Researchers h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Cyberstalking Prevention: A Computer Privacy Expert Offers Tips for Avoiding the Fate of Sixth-Grader Leslie Cote

    ​One of the creepiest things about an adolescent cyberstalking case that came to a close yesterday in King County Superior Court is how two of Leslie Cote's friends were able to pose as the Issaquah sixth-grader and post sexual come-ons--including invitations for oral sex--from Cote's own Face ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Fine, We'll Admit It: Microsoft's Bendable Mouse Looks Really Awesome

    Microsoft, bendable mouse, arc touch, zune, gadgets

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Microsoft Throws in the Towel on Hacker Competition, Releases No Upgrades for Browser

    ​The Pwn2Own challenge is a contest in which computer-security geeks and hackers face off in a race to hack their way into the four top browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. It's a chance for the Zero Cools of the world to flex their mouse mus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Microsoft Adds Anti-Tracking Software to Explorer 9, Advertisers Cry: "But We Love Spying"

    ​Most folks would likely agree that companies' abilities to track every move you make online, then custom build an advertising strategy designed to flood your cerebral cortex with uncontrollable desires to buy stuff is a bad thing. It took a while to convince Microsoft of this, but it appears ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Today In Sex: Erase Your Ex

    ​Is there any Facebook application more annoying than the one that "suggests" you friend random people? Whenever it's someone I actually know, it's inevitably someone I loathe or someone I've dated. (Who is often also someone I loathe.)

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Google Chrome Speed Test Helps Explain Why Internet Explorer Is Dying (VID)

    Reports indicate it will take a full seven years for Microsoft's Internet Explorer to die off completely. A timetable that's sure to accelerate once everyone sees what kind of cool, Rube Goldberg-esque crap you can pull with Google's Chrome.

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Flaw in Internet Explorer Cause of Google's Decision to Uncensor Chinese Searches

    This is how the world sees Google. A pleasant PR scenario for which they can thank rival Microsoft.​A side effect of Google's decision to stop censoring it's search engine in China has been the unwanted spotlight it's cast on Microsoft. A starring role the Redmond giant has handled with all th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Microsoft Trails Firefox in Critical Slovakian Browser Market!

    Is Microsoft losing its grip of tiny Eastern European markets?​Everybody pisses on Internet Explorer, and nowhere more so than in Europe, where antitrust issues have dogged Microsoft for years. Two years back, the European Commission forced the company to sell a version of Windows without its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Ballmer Says Microsoft Will Get "Tenacious" With Bing Bling

    How awesome is Microsoft? Let us count the ways: Its new web browser is supposedly pretty cool. Its new search engine, Bing, gained a little market share. After a period of intense reflection, Steve Ballmer says the company should have gotten into the search business sooner. But now that the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Bad News for Microsoft? Obama Admin to Beef Up Antitrust Enforcement

    The other day, we joked about Microsoft returning to its glory days by using its Windows monopoly to elbow out web browsers that compete with Internet Explorer. Well, perhaps it will be returning to its glory days on the legal front as well. If you'll recall, back when the company was making big b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Microsoft Kindly Insists That Windows 7 Users Surf on Internet Explorer

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Page Up? Pay Up

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2006

    Clean Slate

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • News

    September 28, 2005

    Seattle Weekly Print Edition Now Online

    Doogie Browser!Instead of trying to keep up with the Jobses with products like Zune, Microsoft is back to what it does best--taking advantage of its operating system's ubiquity. Mozilla and Opera are complaining that the Redmond software giant has made Internet Explorer the default browser on its Wi ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow

    A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom Seattle's most successful company.

  • News

    July 4, 2001

    XPerience this!

    Microsoft's a monopoly—but can they really take over the world?

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    I want my P3P?

    Microsoft's new way of packaging privacy leaves some Net observers skeptical.

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    Findings of Fact - U.S.A. vs. Microsoft

    Seattle Weekly's handy guide

  • News

    April 7, 1999

    Mooning the Giant

    Last summer, Rob Glaser pissed off Bill Gates. Now, Microsoft is doing to RealNetworks what it did to Netscape.

  • News

    April 8, 1998

    Start-ing over

    Microsoft has quietly ditched its new media strategy in favor of a stripped down 'portal' approach.

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