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'Steve Ballmer has done to Microsoft what George W. Bush did to the United States'
The company's annual meeting triggers a flood of bitter comments from current and former employees
The Microsoft (MSFT) blogs are having a field day mining the stream of comments left on Mini-Microsoft after Friday's annual employee meeting. The site has traditionally been a place for staffers to let off steam anonymously, but the tone and volume of the remarks made after this year's gathering suggest that morale in Redmond has hit a new MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 27, 2011 6:19 AM ETPosted in: Apple, George W. Bush, Google, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Mini-Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Steve Sinosfsky, Windows, WinRumors -
iPad vs. Windows 8: The war of the tweets
Shots were fired in both directions as partisans previewed Microsoft's next tablet OS
A war of words -- blogged, tweeted and syndicated -- broke out at Microsoft's (MSFT) annual developers conference Tuesday when the company distributed Samsung tablets loaded with beta copies of Windows 8, its answer to Apple's (AAPL) OS X and iOS, rolled into one.
Paul Thurrott, the news editor of Windows IT Pro and host of the Windows Weekly podcast, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 14, 2011 8:27 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Boy Genius Report, Daring Fireball, Jim Dalrymple, John Gruber, Mac OS, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, The Loop, Windows 8, Zach Epstein -
Video: German Apple store site defaced with Windows logo
A well-documented piece of street art appeared Friday at a Hamburg construction site
A group calling itself the .Wav Collective, after a Windows audio file format, has posted a video showing a pair of street artists disguised as workmen cordoning off a section of the Jungfernstieg in downtown Hamburg Friday morning, hoisting a ladder against the construction barricade at the site of Apple's (AAPL) newest retail in the city, and calmly MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 5, 2011 6:13 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, Germany, Hamburg, Microsoft Windows, Retail, Street Art, WAV, Windows -
Today in Tech: Windows 8 teaser
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* Microsoft teased Windows 8 yesterday at All Things D's D9 conference, unveiling a versatile user interface heavily inspired by its Windows Phone 7 platform. While users will be able to access the classic Windows desktop experience they'll also experience the Start screen above, which presents users' apps MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 2, 2011 10:24 AM ET -
Mixed reviews for the latest 'I'm a PC' television ads
Microsoft's new marketing campaign seems to be stuck in a time warp of Apple's making
Reactions to the new Microsoft TV ads -- the first of which aired Monday night (video below the fold) and featured a young woman who is persuaded to accept a free state-of-the-art Windows 7 PC by a salesman who secretly built a computer store in her home -- run, like water faucets, either hot or cold.
Half MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 10, 2011 11:11 AM ETPosted in: PCs, Apple, Advertising, Get a Mac, iPad, Microsoft, TV, Windows, I'm a PC, Microsoft Windows, Personal computer -
Apple malware: 6 years of crying wolf
A collection of dire warnings from the past puts this week's alarms into perspective
Three days after ZDNet ran a piece entitled "Coming Soon to a Mac Near You: Serious Malware": Daring Fireball's John Gruber has posted, under the headline "Wolf!" more than a dozen variations on the same theme.
They date back to 2004 and all sound a familiar warning: Apple (AAPL), having achieved critical mass in the market place, is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 5, 2011 7:41 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Daring Fireball, iPods, John Gruber, Macintosh, malware, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, PCs, Tablets, Trojan, Virus, Windows, Worm -
Is Mac under a virus attack?
No. But there's some bad news rising on the Apple malware front
Let's see if we can handle this one as a Q&A.
Q: Is there a Mac OS X virus loose on the Internet? Technically, no. As far as I know, no Mac OS X virus has ever been detected in the wild. But there are other kinds of Mac malware out there that you should know about.
Q: Like what? The MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 4, 2011 10:44 AM ETPosted in: Anti-Virus, Apple, Intego, MAC Defender, Mac OS X, malware, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, PCs, Safari, Virus, Weyland-Yutani BOT -
PC is to Mac as Tuna is to Hummus
A Hunch survey -- and a clever infographic -- offer an antidote to reductive name-calling
In the polarizing discourse of the Internet, people who prefer Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PCs over Apple (AAPL) Macs and vice versa slip easily into a kind of high-tech intolerance, trading insults like schoolchildren and dividing the world into mactards and wintards.
That's what's so refreshing about the infographic released Friday by Hunch, a crowd-sourced recommendation website spearheaded MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 24, 2011 5:46 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Caterina Fake, Column Five Media, Hunch, Information graphics, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, PCs -
How Dell hopes to ship your next server -- on mushrooms
Could a friendly fungus eventually eliminate styrofoam packaging? Don't laugh, it just might.
FORTUNE -- If your job was to ship 250 pounds and $25,000 dollars worth of computer servers, you'd no doubt pack them in a box using only the safest materials. And yet when Dell (DELL) ships four of its PowerEdge R710 servers it will soon offer a new packaging made of...mushrooms.
The idea seems off-the-wall, but it also seems MORE
Scott Woolley - Apr 5, 2011 3:21 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Dell, Dell PowerEdge, Microsoft Windows, Oliver Campbell, Packaging and labeling, servers, Windows 7 -
Today in Tech: Facebook email rolling out, NokSoft's $1 billion deal
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Microsoft is paying Nokia $1 billion to develop and market Windows Phone 7 smartphones. In exchange, Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows Phone 7 used on its devices, and those costs will likely be offset as the company downsizes its internal MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 8, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Charlie Sheen, comScore, Google, Hitachi, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, News Corp., Nokia, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, Windows, Windows Phone 7, YouTube
