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  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Novell-Microsoft Lawsuit Ends In Mistrial--Bill Gates Lives to Testify Another Day

    ​A $1 billion lawsuit that saw Bill Gates dragged in front of federal judge to testify has proved too hazy for jurors to piece together. But the Microsoft-Novell saga still looks to be far from over.

  • News

    September 14, 2011

    Steve Parker's Hurricane Tracker

    The Angry Birds-besting Issaquah app-man's biggest hit yet.

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Meet Steve Parker, the Issaquah Entrepreneur Whose iPhone Hurricane App Outsold Angry Birds

    Steve Parker​For years, Steve Parker worked as an insurance claims adjuster in Texas. Then, inspired when Apple began accepting phone apps from independent developers, he went to Barnes & Noble, bought a few books and taught himself programming. Though supportive, his wife and friends told hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Amazon Appstore Is a Bum Deal for Developers, Says App Company

    ​Russell Ivanovic runs a small mobile-app company called Shifty Jelly, which makes a pod-casting program called Pocket Casts. The app enjoys favorable reviews on the Apple Store and is quite popular in Ivanovic's home country of Australia. Until recently Ivanovic also had his app on the Amaz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Amazon Wins the "Appstore" Fight With Apple (For Now)

    ​As we've reported before, Apple thinks the term "Appstore", "App Store" or any combination thereof is solely owned by Apple. Amazon thinks otherwise and is in the midst of getting sued by Steve Jobs' legal wolves for calling its Android online market an "Appstore." So what do the courts have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Amazon Quotes Steve Jobs Himself in Defense of "Appstore" Trademark Suit

    ​Ever since Apple sued Amazon to keep the company from using the term "Appstore" to describe its "Store" that sells "Apps," the online retailer has been struggling to come up with an airtight defense to use in court. Thankfully for Amazon, Steve Jobs himself is helping them out on that front.

  • 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 22, 2011

    Amazon "Appstore" Debuts Today Amid Fanfare and a Big Fat Lawsuit from Apple

    ​Two things usually happen when a familiar technology innovation is modified and launched as something new these days. First, there's a big roll-out party/press event. Second, there's an even bigger lawsuit filed by a competitor that claims it's been copied. So on day one of Amazon's big debut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    More Patent Infringment Woes For Microsoft

    ​Microsoft can't swing a dead IP protocol these days without hitting a patent infringement lawsuit. First there was i4i, the software company that successfully sued them for ripping off their HTML editing software. Now another company, Uniloc Inc., has been given new life for a previous lawsui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Microsoft to Team With Rupert Murdoch in Effort to Block Google?

    Collude with this man at your own risk, Microsoft.​According to a report from the Financial Times, Microsoft is in talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to pay for the exclusive rights to deliver search results for papers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and others. Murdoch has be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2009

    New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Bashes Microsoft Bing

    Don't even ask about the Dalai Lama.​While several nice things have been written about Microsoft's new Bing search engine, including by his NYT colleague David Pogue, op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof does not agree. In a scathing Friday blog post, Kristof accuses MSFT of tailoring Chinese-lang ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    It's a Federal Judge's Word vs. Microsoft's

    Contraband?​If a federal judge says that Microsoft can't sell Microsoft Word anymore, will Microsoft have to stop selling it? Probably not, it seems. Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis issued an injunction--to take effect in 60 days--prohibiting Microsoft from selling any versi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Bada-Powered-by-Bing: Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Make a Deal

    Dude, it's made!​Steve Ballmer probably "loves this company" even more today, as Microsoft finally got its search deal with Yahoo!. (Wouldn't it be cool if, as part of the deal, Microsoft had to add an exclamation point to its name as well?) For at least the next ten years, Microsoft's Bing wi ... 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 29, 2009

    Bing's Early Reviews: So Far, Not Bad

    We're 24 hours into the Bing era--i.e. the era of Microsoft's new search engine. (It's called Bing!) And even though the public doesn't have access to the service yet, a lot of tech writers do, and their reviews are in--and excerpted below. Be ready for the product to launch--it'll be available to e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    PUSA Unveils its own iPhone Application

    I just got a press release from Dave Meinart announcing that Seattle's storied rock band, the Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) have jumped in bed with Apple and now have a new iPhone application. The $2.99 app gives those who subscribe to it, full-tracks from four albums as well as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    WSJ Reports on MSFT's Phone Strategy

    Let's shoot down some rumors and relay some facts about Microsoft and smartphones. The Wall Street Journal reports here that the Redmond software titan will start playing catch-up to Apple's iPhone app store by offering similar phone-friendly gizmos for the new Windows Mobile 6.5. One such service, ... More >>

  • News

    October 15, 2008

    The Suits: Spyder Bytes

    Microsoft's going after "scareware" Internet scams.

  • News

    August 27, 2008

    Microsoft Brings Seinfeld Back to Prime Time

    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

    April 21, 2008

    What, no Vista?

    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

    November 1, 2007

    The Reading Public Demands to Know: Where...?

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

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2006

    No LOL for AOL

    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.

  • 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.

  • Music

    March 9, 2005

    Henry Art Gallery

    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

    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

    July 25, 2001

    Control freaks?

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

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Wares wars

    The powers that be push for a software consumer nonprotection act.

  • Diversions

    February 23, 2000

    High-tech companies discover the Old Economy

    The powers that be push for a software consumer nonprotection act.

  • 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

    Organized Chaos

    A personal digital assistant speaks volumes about the owner—and the giver

  • 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

    September 8, 1999

    Vaporwages

    Tech pay isn't what the Times might have you think.

  • News

    June 30, 1999

    Internet Appleiance

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

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Curse of the cultware

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

  • 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

    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 22, 1998

    A visionary among hallucinaries

    Here's a software company that earns its valuation the old-fashioned way: by making money.

  • News

    July 15, 1998

    Caveat surfor

    Here's a software company that earns its valuation the old-fashioned way: by making money.

  • News

    June 3, 1998

    Infested

    Here's a software company that earns its valuation the old-fashioned way: by making money.

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    DIE! Microsoft, DIE!

    Redmond's day of reckoning is coming, and you read it here first.

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Drag-and-shop

    Redmond's day of reckoning is coming, and you read it here first.

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    Submerging channels

    Redmond's day of reckoning is coming, and you read it here first.

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