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Dancin' Bill Gates Excels at the Power Point

[Bill Gates parties down at a Sundance party hosted by Microsoft's Bing search engine, at the House of Hype. Image (plus more dancin' pics!): DailyTruffle, via GuestofaGuest]
01/26/10
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By Richard Lawson
#chineseburn Click here to read Microsoft Helps China Oppress People

Microsoft Helps China Oppress People

Gates and co have admitted that a weakness in Internet Explorer allowed the Chinese government (allegedly) to attack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists, prompting Google to leave the country. And potentially causing a diplomatic incident. More »
01/15/10
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By Ravi Somaiya
#media Click here to read The Coming Search Engine Media Wars

The Coming Search Engine Media Wars

News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a pittance. Welcome to the future of paid media. More »
11/24/09
4,6444,644 views on this post, 1 visitors
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By Hamilton Nolan
#conspiracies Click here to read Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7

Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7

A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy? More »
11/20/09
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By Ryan Tate
#feuds Click here to read Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food

Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food

Don Dodge used to be an official evangelist for Microsoft, hyping the company's software and insulting its competitor Google. Then Microsoft laid him off, and Google hired him. Cue the bitter, flip-flopping blog post in which Dodge loudly switches sides. More »
11/17/09
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By Ryan Tate
#sadthings Click here to read Lymphoma Diagnosis for Paul Allen, Microsoft's Least Lucky Co-Founder

Lymphoma Diagnosis for Paul Allen, Microsoft's Least Lucky Co-Founder

Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. It's more tough news for the Microsoft co-founder, who has overcome more than his share of health problems before. More »
11/17/09
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By Ryan Tate
#mediawars Click here to read Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google

Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google

For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within "months." The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that's just its way of making search hugely profitable. More »
11/13/09
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By Ryan Tate
#exits Click here to read Über-Programmer Ditches Yahoo Over 'Lame' Microsoft Deal

Über-Programmer Ditches Yahoo Over 'Lame' Microsoft Deal

No one likes Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft. Wall Street wanted more up front money; tech elites called it an abdication, a "shame" and "seppuku." Now Yahoo is losing a programming icon over the embarrassing arrangement. More »
11/11/09
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By Ryan Tate
#feuds Click here to read Microsoft Flacks Banned 'Forever' Over a 'Significantly Less Blue' Scoop

Microsoft Flacks Banned 'Forever' Over a 'Significantly Less Blue' Scoop

Michael Arrington, the TechCrunch publisher and noted feuding diva, has "banned" Microsoft's PR firm Waggener Edstrom for a blown embargo. Forever. What huge scoop was stolen from him, by Microsoft's terrorist network? More »
11/04/09
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By Ryan Tate
#layoffs Click here to read Sluggish Microsoft to Fire Hundreds This Morning

Sluggish Microsoft to Fire Hundreds This Morning

Microsoft will begin its third 2009 layoff round as soon as this morning, TechFlash reports, because the software giant's growth has slowed. Conference rooms are already reserved. If you learn anything about the reboot, email us. (UPDATE: Social networking hit.) More »
11/04/09
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By Ryan Tate
#feuds Click here to read Jealous Google Lets Employees Flirt with Microsoft, But No Petting

Jealous Google Lets Employees Flirt with Microsoft, But No Petting

Google takes it all back, baby. The company now acknowledges it was wrong to begrudge programmer Jon Skeet a Microsoft MVP Award, just because it came from The Enemy. He can accept the prize. But no whispering sweet nothings. More »
11/02/09
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By Ryan Tate
#television

Who's Turned on Family Guy?

Click here to read Who's Turned on <em>Family Guy</em>?
After much deliberation, Microsoft has decided against sponsoring the upcoming Family Guy special, 'Seth MacFarlane's Holocaust Incest Tampon Hour.' They join an illustrious list of Family Guy haters. More »
10/27/09
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By Hamilton Nolan
#mistakes Click here to read CNBC's Microsoft Fail

CNBC's Microsoft Fail

Business Insider thought to ask CNBC if they planned on apologizing for the network's epic snafu on Friday, when reporter Jim Goldman misreported Microsoft's announced expense reductions as revenue reductions, news that "bombed" the NASDAQ. Guess what? Nope. More »
10/26/09
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By John Cook
#feuds Click here to read Bing Heats Google Ice Queen

Bing Heats Google Ice Queen

It's been ten years since Microsoft decisively buried Netscape, and Silicon Valley is still frightened of the monster in Redmond, Washington. Even giant Google is paranoid; the company is increasingly said to be chasing Microsoft's tail lights. More »
10/22/09
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By Ryan Tate
#startups Click here to read The Retreat of King Twitter

The Retreat of King Twitter

With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation. More »
10/21/09
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By Ryan Tate
#badideas Click here to read AP's Betting the Farm Microsoft Will Crush Google

AP's Betting the Farm Microsoft Will Crush Google

The Associated Press, self-declared enemy of internet evildoers, says it has seen some awesome new Microsoft search technology — top secret stuff — that will return its content to a position of total world domination. Google is so history. More »
10/09/09
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By Ryan Tate
#twitter Click here to read Selling Your Tweets to the Enemy

Selling Your Tweets to the Enemy

Tech bloggers are in a tizzy over the prospect of tech giants Google or Microsoft getting real-time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but Valleywag has learned that cash-hungry Twitter is already selling access to its "firehose" of data. More »
10/08/09
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By Ryan Tate
#feuds Click here to read Google Tells Employee to Decline Microsoft Award

Google Tells Employee to Decline Microsoft Award

Each year starting in 2003, Microsoft has honored Jon Skeet for his extensive work helping people code in a Microsoft-developed programming language. But Skeet joined Google last year, and his new employer is apparently the jealous type. More »
10/01/09
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By Ryan Tate
#therich Click here to read The Home Where Microsoft Got Reamed

The Home Where Microsoft Got Reamed

Microsoft is notorious for sticking it to enemies and business partners alike, especially among the tech elite of Silicon Valley. How satisfying for them, then, to hear how a hometown boy took the company to the cleaners. More »
09/30/09
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By Ryan Tate
#badvertising Click here to read Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7

Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7

Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, is available to the public Oct. 22. So why not host an awkward launch party for a perfectly diverse group of your friends? Microsoft made an unbearable video tutorial to get you going. More »
09/23/09
26,19826,198 views on this post, 14 visitors
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By Ryan Tate
#feuds Click here to read Steve Ballmer's Two Minutes of iPhone Hate

Steve Ballmer's Two Minutes of iPhone Hate

Microsoft's CEO seems determined to live out a career of comical self parody. Steve Ballmer, who suppposedly hurled a chair in an anti-Google tantrum, has acted out his iPhone rage in a Seattle stadium. How Big Brother can you get? More »
09/11/09
11,53711,537 views on this post, 6 visitors
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By Ryan Tate
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