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December 29, 2010
Microsoft Gets 141 New Enemies in Upcoming Supreme Court Case
It's not just the i4i development firm that thinks Microsoft stole a bit of editing technology that ended up in an older version of Word. Besides several lower courts that think so too, 141 other smaller companies just signed a brief in support of i4i (no word if they picked the 141 number fo ... More >>
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January 3, 2011
Susanna Martini, Edmonds Cerebral Palsy Sufferer, Upset That Kinect Won't Recognize Her in Wheelchair
For about 24 hours on the day the Microsoft Kinect was debuted on Nov. 4, rumors exploded that the device had trouble recognizing black people. Those rumors, however, were quickly debunked as a lighting--not a racism-- based problem. But now there's at least one member of a different minority ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Microsoft Joins the Multi-Touch Mouse Party More Than a Year After Apple
Microsoft's appearance at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week has been widely panned as a flop--devoid of any big, exciting, non-Kinect related news. But on Friday, the tech giants unfurled perhaps their best hope of changing the stale narrative with this fancy ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Bill Gates Tops Steve Jobs in Political Donations; Microsoft Outspends Apple Inside the Beltway
There was a time when Bill Gates wouldn't deign to politick. He was a successful software salesman who didn't need to grease palms or seek government largesse. His company and employees donated a mere $251,474 during the 1996 federal election cycle, for example. Then came 1998, the beginning ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Microsofties Give 'Til It Feels Good: $96 Million!
Latter-day GiversWhile, as noted earlier, Bill Gates threw a lot of money to politicians in recent years, he's of course since aimed most of his billions toward his foundation and charitable causes. So have Microsoft employees: In October, for example, Microsofties donated, on average, $30.86 ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Microsoft's Iconic Group Photo Members Tracked Through the Years
It's one of the most famous photographs in American business. The ragtag group of bearded longhairs assembled in front of a gray backdrop looks like they might be a lost splinter of the Manson family. In fact, they're Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and the rest of the founding members of Microsoft i ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Comment of the Week: Everyone Who Wrote on the Autistic Xbox Cheater Boy Story
Earlier this week we posted a story about 11-year-old Julius Zdenek, an autistic boy from Edgewood who loves to play Xbox 360, but was recently labeled a "cheater" by Microsoft and stripped of his online "achievements." Turns out he really did cheat by giving his account info to a third party ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Bing Sting Catches Microsoft Stealing Google's Search Results
Computer cops at Google have just completed a "sting operation" and made the bust of a lifetime. Or something.
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February 2, 2011
Microsoft vs Google in Twitter Fight to the Death
In the red corner, fighting out of Redmond, Washington, with $86 billion in assets and 89,000 slave-driven employees... It's Microsoft! And in the blue corner, from Mountain View, California, commanding $46 billion in assets and helping 65 percent of the country find its porn... Google! Lllll ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Microsoft Claims Mexican Drug Cartels Are Selling Fake Copies of its Software
David Finn, Microsoft's associate general counsel for antipiracy, called it "the scary side of counterfeiting" today at the Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Paris. Mexican drug cartels, he says, are making fake copies of Office 2007 and pedaling them on the streets of ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
Maryvone Phanhsiry, Microsoft Debit-Card Guru, Indicted for Stealing $457,000 From Company
Interns are great. They make coffee. They file paperwork. They entertain older co-workers with stories of their youthful goings-on. And in Maryvone Phanhsiry's case, for two years, they allegedly (and unwittingly) provided the means for her to bilk nearly half a million dollars from Microsoft ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Microsoft Is Terrified of a Man Named Matt Miszewski
He gots their secrets and they wants them back.
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February 14, 2011
Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, Swears He's Not a "Trojan Horse" for Microsoft
It's not every day that a bigwig CEO has to tamp down rumors that he's operating like an ancient Greek war machine or a malicious computer virus.
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February 21, 2011
Soon, You Too Can Be a Kinect Hacker
With their flying robots, surgical avatars, and titty-obscuring simulators, there's no doubt that Kinect hackers are awesome. Unfortunately, in order to be a Kinect hacker, one's nerd rating has to be off the charts, and therefore out of reach of normal girlfriend-having, daylight-seeing peop ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
Did Microsoft Conspire With the CIA to Attack an Iranian Nuclear Plant With a Computer Virus?
Eugene KasperskyThe Stuxnet computer virus is the "Hiroshima of cyber-war." That's according to an article the latest edition of Vanity Fair. Most folks might remember it as the virus that was rumored to be unleashed by Israel in attacking Iran's nuclear facility--the one that made its urani ... More >>
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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 >>
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March 14, 2011
Microsoft Tweets Tsunami-Themed Bing Promotion, Apologizes After Twitter Shame Storm
There are certain--albeit unestablished--rules about how and when a company can use an international tragedy (like, say, a Japanese earthquake/tsunami) for marketing purposes. First and foremost, said company must couple any promotion with an appropriate charity theme. Second, the business mu ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Rumor: Microsoft Starts Work on New Xbox Model for 2015
Stephen Chapman over at ZDNet did some sleuthing today and found a "morsel" noted on software/gadget engineer Ben Peterson's portfolio page. It's a teaser for a brand new Microsoft project having to do with the Xbox 360. And with a completion date of 2015, Chapman surmises that it's likely fo ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Microsoft, Despite Making No Tablet Computers, Sues Barnes & Noble for Patent Infringement Over Its Nook Tablet
Sure, Microsoft doesn't actually make any form of tablet computer. But as anyone who follows the company will tell you, it owns the licensing rights to everything imaginable, including several tablet designs. Now Barnes & Noble is finding out what happens when a piece of technology sold by a ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Microsoft Buys 666,000 Old Web Addresses in Potential Satanic Tech Rite
Now, we're not saying that Microsoft's recent purchase of 666,000 old web addresses is a sign of the coming of the Beast. But we're not saying it's not either.
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March 28, 2011
Microsoft Leaves Hotmail Accounts Open to Spying in Iran, Syria, Bahrain, and Elsewhere
For an unknown span of time, Hotmail accounts in some of the world's most oppressive and volatile countries were left without access to Microsoft's normal e-mail security features. The problem is apparently fixed now--but only after a flurry of online anger forced Microsoft to act.
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March 30, 2011
Paul Allen Lashes Out at Bill Gates in New Book on Early Microsoft Days: "Bill's Self-Interest Overrode All Other Considerations"
From the early looks at Paul Allen's new book Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft, you might never guess that Allen became one of the richest people in the world thanks to his time as a Microsoftie. The book is packed full of bitter jabs at Bill Gates and revisionist takes on ev ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
Linus Torvalds, Mythic Smith of Linux, Declares Microsoft Dead, Victory for Communism
Comrade Linus Torvalds.Dealing with Microsoft is "like kicking a puppy," declares Linus Torvalds to Network World on Monday. The Finnish radical and hacker turned Portland software mogul says that Linux-inspired technology has overpowered Microsoft's grip on the market in every category they ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Boeing and Microsoft: Two of America's Top-Ten "Biggest Corporate Tax Cheats"
It's time to play America's favorite game show, Why Being a Corporation is Better Than Being a Person! Today's theme is: taxes--specifically, how the phrase "death and taxes" may apply to people, but certainly not to big companies.
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April 25, 2011
Microsoft Celebrates Playstation Network Outage With Free Xbox Live Play All Weekend
By now anyone who owns a Playstation 3 will have noticed that their machine has been turned into an oversized paperweight ever since a hack attack took out the Playstation Network six days ago. Microsoft certainly noticed. And to celebrate, the company launched a free Xbox Live play event all ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Microsoft Opens New Vancouver Game Studio to Work on Kinect Shooter
With the bullet-ridden corpse of Osama bin Laden having fully whetted America's appetite for shooting people, it seems like a good time to announce that Microsoft is working on the closest thing most of us will ever come to storming a terrorist compound and machine gunning fools. I'm talking, ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Fine, We'll Admit It: Microsoft's Bendable Mouse Looks Really Awesome
Microsoft, bendable mouse, arc touch, zune, gadgets
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May 16, 2011
Columbia Journalism Review to New York Times: Stop Brown-Nosing Microsoft on Skype Deal
Count the folks at the Columbia Journalism Review among those not squealing with joy over Microsoft's recently announced plans to buy Internet phone-call thingamajig Skype for $8.5 billion.
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May 27, 2011
Irish Teen Hacker Scares Microsoft Enough to Land Him a Job
What's the best way to land a programmer's job at Microsoft? Well, there's the standard method of going to school for computer science, succeeding admirably, creating programs of your own and then applying and hoping you get the nod. Then there's the slightly less orthodox method employed o ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Did Microsoft Just Buy Nokia for $19 Billion?
The company won't tell us one way or another. But if a particular Russian tech analyst (with a relatively sterling reputation) is right, the deal for Microsoft to buy Finnish phone company Nokia for around $19 billion is either already done or will be very soon.
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June 9, 2011
i4i Triumphs Over Microsoft in Landmark Supreme Court Case
The old David & Goliath metaphor was invented for cases like this.
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June 13, 2011
The New York Times Claims Microsoft Is the New Kodak; Facts Suggest Otherwise
The New York Times editorial board took some time for a little old-fashioned Microsoft-bashing this weekend. The paper thinks that our local software giant is on its way to becoming the new Kodak: a former business and technology icon made all but obsolete by more agile companies with better ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Microsoft Looks to Patent Skype-Spying Technology
Here's a look at a new patent just filed by Microsoft that covers some slick technology to be used in the company's newly acquired Internet phone service Skype. It's pretty neat stuff. Just don't call your friends on Skype to tell them about it, because the cops might be listening.
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June 30, 2011
Rumors of Microsoft's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
A reminder to the folks (myself included) who occasionally like to write about how Microsoft is yesterday's news--how its stock price sucks, it's losing the fight on mobile phones, has lost the fight on tablets and is more known for fighting patent wars than innovating new products.
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July 7, 2011
Where Are the Rumors of a Microsoft-Facebook Merger?
Will they merge?Four years ago, the tech world was abuzz with rumors of a possible merger between Microsoft and Facebook. It later emerged that Microsoft, which owns 1.4 percent of the social networking powerhouse, offered Mark Zuckerberg $15 billion for his whole company, an offer that, wi ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Are Microsoft's Commercials Ripping Off an Obscure Gag-Gift Company?
A lawsuit filed in federal court by the small silly-gift company Cell-R-Derm alleges that they are. And judging by the tapes, Cell-R-Derm looks to have a pretty good case.
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July 22, 2011
Exclusive: Microsoft's Oslo Office Damaged by Bomb
Norwegian government offices were heavily damaged by a bomb todayA Microsoft office in Oslo, Norway, was damaged today by a bomb set off near Norwegian government headquarters.
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July 26, 2011
Microsoft Slammed for Amy Winehouse Death Sales Pitch, While Amazon and Apple Skate
If there's one thing Amy Winehouse fans will not stand for, it's any corporation Microsoft shamelessly trying to capitalize on her death.
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July 28, 2011
Microsoft Announces New U Village Store for the Fall--Which Celebrity Pop Singer Should Play the Opening?
Microsoft just announced that it will be opening a brand-new store in U Village. Exciting! What's more exciting, however, is the prospect of another pop-singer performance, a la Miley Cyrus, to christen the new store. Here are our top five suggestions for artists.
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September 1, 2011
Feds to Microsoft: You're Lying About Cell Phone Tracking
The word "scheme" is used liberally throughout a federal complaint against Microsoft that details the company's use of location-tracking software on its cell phones. Another word used is "false." As in "Microsoft's representations to Congress were false."
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September 8, 2011
Emma Cloney, Microsoft Manager, Claims Drunken Boss Tried to Have Sex with Her at "Throbbing Mass" Party
The following story of alleged workplace debauchery is made at least twice interesting by the fact that it's reported on by a U.K. tabloid.
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September 13, 2011
Microsoft's "Fantastic" New Tablet Gets Big Praise from Tech Blog
First Microsoft was making a tablet computer. Then it wasn't. Then it was again. Now it has.
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September 27, 2011
Steve Ballmer Trashed by Online Commenters--Internet Reads Way Too Far Into It
In the hierarchy of written communication, anonymous Internet commenters rank a slight notch above people who carve swear words into bathroom stalls and a tad below kids who say the alphabet by burping. Try telling that to the tech blogosphere today, however, because one might think that ev ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Amazon May Have to Pay Microsoft for Every Kindle Fire Tablet it Sells
News of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is burning up the tech blogs right now. Here's why that might be a good thing for Microsoft.
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October 19, 2011
Today Reverb Recommends Setting Your Alarm Early for Free Black Keys Tickets
Laura MusselmanThe Black Keys, seen here at the Paramount Theatre in October 2010, will play a free show Friday in University Village. Microsoft is set to open a new retail store in University Village tomorrow morning, and it's booked a major headliner to help celebrate. The Grammy-winning, ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Mom of Child Banned From Xbox Live: 'Microsoft Has Robbed My Child of a Voice'
For players on the Xbox Live network, Microsoft is judge, jury, and executioner. Users of the service who run afoul of the its policies continually complain about being banned from the site for myriad reasons, some understandable (their gamertag was: "White Power"); some just plain weird (the ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
How Bill Gates Killed Microsoft's Courier Tablet
Hey you! Don't do that!It's not by chance that seemingly every major tech/gadget company has been selling a tablet computer for some time now except Microsoft. In fact the reason for Microsoft's echoing absence in the tablet market may be largely due to one man.
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November 25, 2011
Microsoft Buying Yahoo? More Signs Point Toward 'Yes'
Rumors that Microsoft might buy aging search site/top-tier sports-news outlet Yahoo are nothing new. A new agreement signed by both companies, however, might be the most significant clue yet that those rumors are true.
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January 11, 2012
Microsoft GPS Devices To Come With 'Avoid Ghetto' Feature
They think of everything over there in Redmond. Must be something in Microsoft's water coolers. Just when you thought you had every possible gadget necessary to live a happy and productive life, the software giant comes out with an "avoid ghetto" feature for your GPS device. Indeed, Christmas ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Chinese Foxconn Workers Threaten Mass Suicide at XBox Plant
Employees at the Foxconn factory in Wuhan, China, threatened mass suicide during a protest last week and were finally talked down from plant's roof by the Mayor of Wuhan. The 300 workers involved in what has been described as a pay dispute manufacture XBox consoles for Foxconn, which makes a ... More >>
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