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Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, will now be integrating search results from that cool “computational knowledge engine” Wolfram Alpha. Because, you know, Microsoft will just buy anything and everything just to make Google stop existing. Except Google is, like, sooo un-buy-able. Last July, Microsoft bought Yahoo!, sort of, and it’s still doing more integrative stuff, like [...]

Microsoft takes over what Yahoo has for search, supplanting the latter’s search engine with Microsoft’s Bing.
A ten-year deal announced today follows what seems like years of negotiations, company reshuffles, infiltrations of high-powered shareholders and even the replacement of Yahoo’s own CEO. But Yahoo has finally handed over the reins of its search business to Microsoft, [...]

Microsoft: the not-so-good, the bad, and the ugly.

If you love getting flogged and fucked in the ass, browser-wise, download now the new Internet Explorer 8.

Some dude named Johannes Kreidler derived real melodies from stock charts using Microsoft’s Songsmith.

The ever-lovable Bill Gates, who is now retired and spends his days dancing to an iPod, opened a jar full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about malaria being a deadly disease that can fuck up anybody, including the rich and smart and those who call themselves “doctor” and with [...]

This Zune Art sort of “ad” inspires the immortal, “Why, God, why?” question.

Microsoft doesn’t only have fangs, it also has liver. It seems the giant is taking its “I’m A PC!” ad campaign to another level by actually rubbing it where it matters. This is a photo of a new “I’m a PC” recording booth just outside an Apple Store in Bullring, Birmingham, England, where a staff [...]

While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the Mac maker now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths its revenues.
For the quarter ending in September, [...]

Nothing much, really. Just Apple taking a stab at Windows Vista. In some other planet, they’d just call this mud slinging. But actual mud slinging is definitely more fun.

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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