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  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    What Made This Year's Microsoft Company Meeting the 'Best Ever'?

    ​Yesterday, roughly 20,000 Microsoft workers packed Safeco Field for the company's annual meeting. An Amy Sedaris-hosted event that anonymous blogger Mini-Microsoft declared the "Best...Ever." So what made it the best?

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Does Not Compete

    The absurd effects of the San Francisco Bay Guardian "predatory pricing" suit.

  • News

    August 18, 2010

    State Agencies Pour Anti-Freeze Into Tight Budget Loophole

    The absurd effects of the San Francisco Bay Guardian "predatory pricing" suit.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Chris Gregoire's Spending Freeze Unfrozen: Computers, Trucks, Travel Given Exemptions

    ​As Gov. Gregoire prepares to unveil her latest solutions to the state's budget shortfall today - perhaps extending her statewide spending freeze - the state Superintendent of Public Instruction's Teaching and Learning Division is winding up a two-day meeting in Renton at a cost of $20,000 for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Microsoft Tries to Roar Back at Critics, Ends Up Whimpering Instead

    ​As much as an obscenely profitable company that produces millionaires the way other operations pump out widgets can act like a cornered animal, Microsoft is that animal. Amateur crystal ball-gazers (including yours truly) have spent the past months predicting dark clouds in the tech company's ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2010

    Rhapsody in Zune

    The best feature of Microsoft's underrated mp3 player just lost some of its shimmer.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Nothing You Read About Microsoft Today Is True

    ROFL!​Today's blogs can't wait for April 2. - CrossCut says that Microsoft will pay to rebuild 520 with VIP lanes for employees. - Tiger Woods is the new pitchman for Windows 7. - Clippy, the anthropomorphic paper clip, is making a comeback in Office 2010. - And as The Microsoft Blog repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Unlike Google, Steve Ballmer Wants to "Help" China

    Software pirates, Falun Gong supporters, free Tibet activists--China's prisons have room for you all!​PR professionals, take note. Here is how you do not want to position your company against a competitor during a tricky news cycle. Google is adding a bit of luster to its halo by threatening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    The 10 Most Popular Daily Weekly Stories of 2009

    Whoever made this button is a modern-day Nostradamus. ​God knows there's a lot of reasons to want to forget about the past year. But before we usher in 2010, here's a look back at the most popular Daily Weekly stories of 2009.

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    "Game Over" for Microsoft?

    Do you really care if this software is or isn't on your phone?​Up in the San Juans, tech analyst Mark Anderson publishes an influential newsletter called Strategic News Service, little read by laypeople but studied intently by industry players in Redmond and Silicon Valley. In a recent pronoun ... 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

    November 25, 2009

    Mac Users Pounce on Microsoft-Saks Windows 7 Twitter Feed

    So that's why no one on Twitter likes Microsoft.​UPDATE: TechFlash says Microsoft may be censoring the offending Tweets. Details after the jump. To remind holiday shoppers about their new OS Windows 7, Microsoft recently bought a display window in legendary New York department store Saks Fift ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Microsoft Worked With NSA on Windows 7

    Leading conspiracy theorists say now would be a good time to double-up on the Reynolds Wrap.​Yesterday, a senior official with the National Security Agency confirmed that the NSA had worked with Microsoft to improve security on their new operating system Windows 7. The news was met with some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Microsoft Manager Admits Windows 7 Copies Mac

    Mortal enemies usually aren't supposed to admit to admiring one each others work.​Yesterday, Simon Aldous, a guy who even the most hardcore gadget devotees couldn't pick out of a lineup, made himself briefly very famous. And possibly very unemployed. In an interview, Aldous, a manager at Micr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Microsoft's Dungeons & Dragons Game

    You may not play Dungeons & Dragons. You may not care about Dungeons & Dragons. But if you're of a certain age you most certainly know someone who does play and does care about Dungeons & Dragons. And if that person saw this video from TechFlash, you and I both know that their eyes would literally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Newsweek's Massive F U to Ballmer

    ​Guess who's about to wake up next to a horse's severed head? Newsweek technology writer Daniel Lyons. In a blog post yesterday, which goes into print next week, he offers up some choice words for the Microsoft CEO. Some select quotes: "Instead of being scary, Microsoft has become a bit of a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Microsoft WinMo Getting Ass Kicked by Cupcake

    ​While Redmond is crowing and Steve Ballmer is gloating about the successful launch of Windows 7, the smartphone platform Windows Mobile is being treated like a bastard stepchild--locked and starved in the basement, if you will. With the PC operating system market now fairly mature, the new gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Microsoft's Windows 7 Launch Parties Prove Predictably Pathetic

    Scientists believe this to be the only known photograph of a successful Windows 7 launch party.​You may remember that prior to its release, Microsoft tried to hype their new operating system Windows 7 with a series of exclusive "launch parties."The promotions folks in Redmond have been known f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    One Microsoft Whopper, Coming (Urp) Up!

    ​Burger King of Japan is promoting Microsoft's Windows 7 release today with this seven-layer Whopper. It's 5 inches in diameter, and tips the scale at 1 3/4 pounds - about equal to the weight of the change it could remove from your pockets - $15.90 in U.S. coins. It's available for one week ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    We Couldn't Help Noticing...

    ...this Seattle Times link box, listing stories related to the Windows 7 rollout-sale: * You might be interested in: * Precocious 5-year-old gives Windows 7 pitch From The Seattle Times * A brief guide to the availability of Windows 7 From Seattle Times Business & Technology * Wind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Seattle Blogs: What Ballmer Wants, Ballmer Gets

    "Yeah-yuh!"​Plenty of daily blogs. One low, low price. - The Microsoft Blog reports that the Windows 7 launch coincided with news of a touch-screen e-reader from Amazon. Ballmer HAPPY. - Hotdog & Friends finds out that while all Husky football nail-biter losses hurt, they don't all hurt the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Console Flame Wars! Sony Beats Microsoft for First Time, Trolls React

    This man will use all the powers of his massive intellect to utterly eviscerate your purchase of a PS3. So long as it's online.​While gearing up for tomorrow's release of Windows 7, Microsoft got a bit of bad news. For the first time in...ever, more people in the U.S. bought Sony's Playstation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Ballmer Jumps the Shark. Or Talks About the Shark

    ​Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a Woody Allen fan? Or a fan of sharks? We can't be sure after a long and generally flattering weekend New York Times feature on the coming launch of Windows 7. (Now only two days away! We can't contain our Win-citement!) The Ballmer quote that leaps out is this, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Thank Goodness for Microsoft, Another Reason Why Life is Better Here Than in Cleveland

    Remember Seattleits, no matter how bad things get at least you don't live here.​The whole world is anxiously awaiting the release of Microsoft's Windows 7, set to drop on Thursday. Jon Talton says the newest operating system isn't just important for Microsoft, it's important for the whole regi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Windows 7 Put to the Test

    ​The countdown to Microsoft's Oct. 22 launch of Windows 7 now stands at seven days. But test versions of the operating system are out there, and more reviews are coming in. After Walt Mossberg's favorable assessment, tech site CNET has opted for a more quantitative approach. The site compared ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Ballmer Employs Underage Software Testers!

    ​Everyone is holding their breath until Thurs., Oct. 22, the national rollout day for Windows 7. And while early reviews are favorable, developers and end-users alike may worry about the reliability of the platform. Vista, as we know, was a debacle. And those of us clinging to XP on obsolete o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Microsoft News, Both Good and Evil

    ​Good: Wall Street Journal tech writer, noted curmudgeon and Kingmaker Walter Mossberg says Windows new operating system, Windows 7, is "the best version of Windows Microsoft has produced." Evil: Google funboy Eric Schmidt says Microsoft is evil. Sort of. "We have not yet found the evil room ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    OMG, That Windows 7 Launch Party Is Going to Be HOT!

    This operating system is so fun! (Warning: Black people subject to digital whitening for Polish promotions.)​The 'Soft has already shown us that it knows how to cut loose--see, e.g., Microspotting. Now it wants us to do the same! In case you didn't know, Windows 7 is coming out soon, which is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Sorry About That One, Stock Market

    Bloomberg.com headline this morning, one of many pinning the swoon on our local tech giants It looks like our companies are dragging everyone down, as the markets all dropped today--particularly the NASDAQ--in reaction to earnings reports from Redmond and soon-to-be South Lake Union. Microsoft's ea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Ad Wars, Price Wars, and Pyrrhic Victories: Apple Gets Microsoft to Edit Commercial

     For a long time, Apple mercilessly flogged Microsoft with its John Hodgman-starring Mac/PC ads, in which poor Mr. PC (Hodgman) is constantly outwitted, outclassed, and generally outdone by his good-natured, better-looking counterpart. Microsoft finally fired back with its "Laptop Hunter" price ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Google Attacks Pearl (Sammamish) Harbor!

    It's on! Google has announced on its own corporate blog its intention to compete with Microsoft in the PC operating system market. That's right: It's Mountain View versus Redmond, the upstart search engine/advertising company against the world's No. 1 software company. Google has now stated its inte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Windows 7: Is It Worth the Upgrade?

    There's a recession going on, and most of us--especially in the corporate sector--are trying to keep our desktop clunker PCs going by opening the chassis and forcing in as many extra memory cards as will fit in the slots. (Or just sprinkling them in loosely, for luck.) Anything to keep XP running a ... 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

    February 10, 2009

    Windows 7: Behold the Mystery!

    We at Seattle Weekly have never upgraded to Windows Vista, and I am typing this on an XP-equipped old PC that dates to the Clinton administration. But maybe I'm lucky, according to this Gizmodo tell-all feature about the new Windows 7, which has been made available to some beta testers. Take, for e ... More >>

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