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Microsoft’s press kit for Internet Explorer 8.
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In August, 2005, as Microsoft was gearing up production, an engineer raised a hand and said, “Stop. You have to shut down the line.” This wasn’t just a brief moment. The engineer spoke up repeatedly.
That engineer, who asked not to be identified, had deep experience in manufacturing. When production results were really off kilter, stopping [...]

Microsoft is buying Powerset, developer of what it hopes is a smarter way to search the Web. Powerset uses so-called “semantic Web” technology that brings up results based on an understanding of a word’s meaning and the context of its use. That’s in contrast to the method used by the major search engines, which work [...]

Ah, 1978. Good times. Fast forward almost 30 years later. Still part of Bill gates is retiring extravaganza.

Bill Gates is retiring. And what more glorious way can anyone do that than by giving Fortune magazine rare photos of yourself doing all sorts of glorious shit, like as glorious superhero sashaying down this glorious ramp. Love you, Bill. We’re gonna go and cry now.
{Mad: Bill Gates dances with an iPod}

You’ve been using Windows XP all these years, now treat yourself to finding some nice little Easter egg song.

Someone asks the immortal question: “For the last few days, the four giant display “screens” at The Bay downtown (Toronto, Canada) have been crashed. Could this be the world’s largest BSOD?”
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The entries are in: the Giz’s Photoshoping game involving inserting Eternal Good Dude With Nice Balls Bill Gates throughout history. More nightmare-inspired photos than you can swallow, and some of them can just leave you clutching your breast and muttering, “So true. Oh, so true.”

The newly-filled Gallery of Bill Gates horror here.