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Paul Thurrott and his Supersite for Windows

February 4, 2010

It’s not often I get irked by some technical pundit who professes to be the law when discussing new technology. However, the latest blog post of self-professed Apple hater Paul Thurrott is disturbing in and of itself. I don’t mind people challenging Google, Apple, RIM or any other technology company with well thought out and [...]

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Microsoft: A Multi-Touching Moment!

May 28, 2008

Microsoft today demoed the new multi-touch portion of their next gen operating system Windows 7 yesterday at the All Things Digital conference. For those not familiar with multi-touch, it was brought into the main stream by Apple’s iPhone in June of last year and lets users concurrently use multiple touches on their device’s screen to perform commands [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo! On Again or Off Again?

May 18, 2008

Well, the saga continues. Looks like Microsoft is re-strategizing and making another play to gain some of Yahoo!’s assets to help compete better with Google. Looks like they want to purchase a significant piece of Yahoo! but still allow a portion of Yahoo! to exist independently. REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today [...]

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What is going on with the OLPC Initiative?

May 18, 2008

What a love/hate relationship! Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child’s chairman, and Microsoft Corp. announced on Thursday that Microsoft would be offering Windows XP at a $3 license fee to be installed on the XO laptop. Targeted at $100, the XO laptop currently costs just under $200 and needs to meet critical mass to drop the [...]

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