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  • News

    June 11, 2008

    Did Microsoft Conspire to Charge People for MSN Service They Didn’t Want?

    We’ll find out—as soon as the court sorts through a few trillion more bytes of data.

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2007

    Sonic Boom General Store

    We’ll find out—as soon as the court sorts through a few trillion more bytes of data.

  • Music

    September 15, 2004

    Move Over, iTunes

    Two Seattle companies—behemoth Microsoft and startup Chondo—provide an alternative for online music lovers.

  • News

    May 26, 2004

    Found Money

    As Microsoft and Yahoo! prepare take on Google, Seattle and UW continue to be a hotbed of Web-search innovation.

  • News

    February 4, 2004

    Survivors of the Fray

    While most dot-com media experiments failed, Microsoft-backed Slate thrived—though not as first envisioned.

  • Arts

    December 17, 2003

    The Memoir-of-the-Month Club

    A year's worth of addiction, heartbreak, and Sting.

  • News

    July 23, 2003

    Redefining Microsoft

    Like it or not, the company that aspires to innovate is tied to the PC.

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    Window undressing

    MSN filters smut. Or it doesn't. Or does it?

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    How Gates got game

    Microsoft built the most popular gaming site on the Web despite itself.

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    Cashdrain.com

    Recent moves by Microsoft and Amazon.com may be signs of desperation.

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    Dialing for digits

    How Microsoft hopes to route your phone calls through NT.

  • News

    October 28, 1998

    Joining Sam's Club

    Can Amazon.com and Sidewalk.com remake themselves into Web-Marts?

  • News

    July 22, 1998

    Serial killer

    Can Amazon.com and Sidewalk.com remake themselves into Web-Marts?

  • News

    July 1, 1998

    Any portal in a storm

    Microsoft tries yet again to make money from the Web.

  • News

    April 8, 1998

    Start-ing over

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

  • Arts

    March 25, 1998

    The network is out there

    Some surprisingly sane scientists (and one moderately sane Microsoft exec) want to use your PC to find alien radio transmissions.

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