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Software Operating Systems

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Did Microsoft Conspire With the CIA to Attack an Iranian Nuclear Plant With a Computer Virus?

    Eugene Kaspersky​The 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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Microsoft Kinect Hacked To Run On Mac (VIDEO)

    ​One wonders if the latest person to hack the new Kinect gaming hardware was just trying to conveniently access it on on a different operating system, or simply looking to piss off Microsoft. Theo Watson here rigged the company's new flagship motion capture gadget to work on Mac OS X. He even ... 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

    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

    June 15, 2009

    New York Post: Bing Has Google in a Panic!

    NY Post sets up a face-offIt's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Microsoft Takes on Wii, Will Take Over Space Needle

    The Wii is on notice: Yesterday, with the help of Steven Spielberg and the two surviving Beatles, Microsoft unveiled a device for the Xbox that allows one to play without a controller. Instead, the Project Natal (yeah, that's the name) uses a camera, voice recognition software, and infrared technolo ... 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 >>

  • News

    August 27, 2008

    Microsoft Brings Seinfeld Back to Prime Time

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    How to Make Vista Cool

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    "What is the deal with a browser called 'Safari'?"

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    Turn Your Monitor and Cough

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Vista Sails Forward

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    Afternoon Edition: No Vista for You!

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2008

    Bill Gates Hates Books

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2008

    Afternoon 'God Help Us, It's Going to Snow Again' Edition

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2008

    Afternoon Leap Year Edition

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2006

    The Office 2007 Delay

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2006

    At Microsoft, WinFS Is Dead

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2006

    Monday Telegraph Room

    Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

  • News

    March 22, 2006

    Microsoft's Big Bet: Win With the Web

    Microsoft's Vista, assisted suicide, and a new waterfront solution.

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    Microsoft's Big Bet: Win With the Web

    Bill Gates is revamping Microsoft's core product with a souped-up, Web-linked version dubbed Windows Vista. Due later this year, it's the biggest rollout in a decade, with high-stakes implications for the company's dominance.

  • News

    June 9, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    "Microsoft's products are conceived . . . as weapons to be used against competitors rather than effective tools for customers."

  • 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 23, 2003

    Redefining Microsoft

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

  • Music

    October 9, 2002

    Joyful Process

    Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

  • News

    July 25, 2001

    Control freaks?

    Windows XP is either a technological coup or a public relations nightmare.

  • News

    July 4, 2001

    XPerience this!

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

  • News

    November 22, 2000

    Multics and Mr. Rogers

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

  • News

    May 31, 2000

    A nudge and a link

    The shifting sands of Net legislation make for expensive real estate.

  • Diversions

    February 23, 2000

    High-tech companies discover the Old Economy

    The shifting sands of Net legislation make for expensive real estate.

  • News

    January 12, 2000

    A worm in the works

    Could disasters loom as more and more pipeline operators switch to Windows NT?

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Interactivation!

    Top 10 lists of the year's best CD-ROMs and the best ones ever made

  • News

    November 10, 1999

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

    Seattle Weekly's handy guide

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    Control freak-alt-delete

    Reading the Findings of Fact as a riveting novel.

  • News

    June 30, 1999

    Internet Appleiance

    What the iMac really is—and what it means for Apple.

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Y2K ready, set, doh!

    Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products.

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Curse of the cultware

    Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products.

  • News

    April 7, 1999

    Media Player and privacy

    Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products.

  • News

    March 31, 1999

    Microsoft's New Brain Project

    A prodigy's Redmond isolation lab faces 'outing' over life secrets

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    IPeekaboo

    Is your personal privacy worth the price of a new computer? Most people hold out for a lot less.

  • News

    January 13, 1999

    Microsoft's Last Day

    A report from the future on the events that brought down the late, great American monopoly

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    Be careful what you wish for

    Why winning its antitrust battle might destroy Microsoft.

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    Dialing for digits

    How Microsoft hopes to route your phone calls through NT.

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    The mouse that roared

    Forget the feds. It's up to an obscure Utah company to prove what we already know: that Microsoft is a monopoly.

  • News

    July 15, 1998

    Caveat surfor

    Forget the feds. It's up to an obscure Utah company to prove what we already know: that Microsoft is a monopoly.

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    Take two

    Forget the feds. It's up to an obscure Utah company to prove what we already know: that Microsoft is a monopoly.

  • News

    June 3, 1998

    Infested

    Forget the feds. It's up to an obscure Utah company to prove what we already know: that Microsoft is a monopoly.

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