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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.

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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer doing the unthinkably but characteristically hilarious: selling Windows 1.0 back in the 1980s. Alright, this wasn’t exactly broadcast, but still. It’s nice to see Microsoft’s top gun back in that distant time when the company wasn’t yet swimming in filthy fucking lucre.

Microsoft has recently forged an unholy alliance with Tmsuk, one of Japan’s largest humanoid robot makers, as part of the company’s bid to dominate the highly advanced field of robotics. Tmsuk has been known for pushing the cutting-edge in robotics (a great lineup of its robots can be found here) and creator of the T-5 [...]

Because shit is.

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One day, your computer will be a big-assed table. With pictures of other people’s kids all over it. Instead of actually playing with your kids, you can just look at video of them playing by themselves… And you’ll smile knowing you’ve only paid 10,000 dollars to do it.
Microsoft Surface. So groundbreaking, it makes you cry.

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You can now enjoy downloading the fully cracked version of Microsoft Windows Vista on bit torrent, courtesy of the scene group called “NoPE.”
The NoPE release has a major key difference to other previous pirated copies of Vista - it is completely cracked, the product appears activated, updates work, and no key needs to be entered, [...]

Director of Microsoft’s Genuine Software Initiative Cori Hartje smiles as she holds pirated copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 that she bought for less than $10 apiece in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Maybe it’s the bright pirated colors, but doesn’t she look so satisfied and happy? If it were our software getting bootlegged, we’d probably [...]

Humans can’t effectively absorb information if it is delivered to them both in written and verbal form. Which explains why, in a typical Powerpoint presentation, your eyes start to glaze and something lulls you to sweet, sweet slumber.
So indicated by the findings of researchers at the University of New South Wales. “Cognitive load theory” creator [...]