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The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 14, 2008 Facebook’s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office Embraces The Browser (Thank You Google)

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on October 28, 2008 Microsoft made a major announcement today – they will be offering “lightweight” versions of Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote – through the browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox and … Continue reading

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Microsoft Plans ‘Cloud’ Operating System

Via The New York Times By JOHN MARKOFF Published: October 27, 2008 LOS ANGELES — Looking for growth in new markets where it is increasingly being bypassed, Microsoft said Monday that late next year it would begin offering a new … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office Labs Releases “Touchless” Multi-Touch Software As An Open-Source SDK

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on October 8, 2008 No, Microsoft is not getting into the car-wash business. But it is releasing “Touchless,” multitouch software from Microsoft Office Labs that uses a regular Web camera and everyday objects as … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Windows Cloud Smells Funny

Via Mashable October 2, 2008 – 3:45 am PDT – by Stan Schroeder I’m not a big fan of reaching for conclusions and unjustified criticism when it comes to tech journalism, because I see it way too often. But although I … Continue reading

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Cloud + Client

Via Tech Crunch by Steve Gillmor on September 29, 2008 This week two giants spoke to the technology wave known as cloud computing. Larry Ellison called it a new label on what everyone is doing already. He acknowledged he was … Continue reading

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Microsoft tries to put fear of God into scareware vendors

Via ARS Technica By Joel Hruska  | Published: September 29, 2008 – 09:20PM CT Microsoft and Washington State officials announced a new partnership today aimed at fighting scareware in general and one specific vendor in particular. Today isn’t such a … Continue reading

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Windows 7 On A Diet – Thank Goodness

Via Mashable eptember 23, 2008 – 8:58 pm PDT – by Steven Hodson 6 Comments With each successive release of the Windows operating system it has gotten bigger and bigger. While it doesn’t help that it has to keep supporting … Continue reading

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Powerset Adds Key Features to Microsoft Live Search

Via Mashable eptember 17, 2008 – 12:13 pm PDT – by Paul Glazowski Add a Comment In late June, Microsoft was said to be prepping an acquisition of the semantic search startup Powerset. On August 1st, the two were officially … Continue reading

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