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Top 10 Microsoft Stories Of 2008

 
Having bid farewell to Bill Gates, Microsoft tempered its appetite for Yahoo, tweaked Vista, leapt into cloud computing, allowed a peek at Windows 7, and warmed up to open source. (link)

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It’s Not All About ‘Rights’
blog.heritage.org 12/15/2008 — Just in time for today’s recognition of Bill of Rights Day, the anonymous scribe within The Heritage Foundation – self-identified only as ”A Conservative” — pushed the send button on a fifth electronic circular under the nameplate “New Common Sense.”  ...
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Charter Communications Seeks Talks With Bondholders
blogs.barrons.com 12/15/2008 — Charter Communications (CHTR) , the heavily leveraged cable operator controlled by Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen , today said it has asked its financial advisor Lazard LLC to begin talks with its bondholders “about financial ...
Rob Beschizza
beschizza.com 12/17/2008 — Wherein an ad for Microsoft’s planned 20 editions of Windows 7 is “leaked.”
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Why So Little Buzz Surrounding Windows 7?InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/12/2008
When Microsoft does something funky -- like CEO Steve Ballmer's infamous Monkey Dance -- the press can't get enough of it. Yet when the folks in Redmond act inspired, the publicity is apparently somewhat sparser. That sure seems to be the case ...
Microsoft Comes To Its SensorsInformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/13/2008
Lately we've seen some really interesting applications that depend on devices that have sensor hardware such as accelerometers, light sensors, touch sensors, and Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Most of the innovation has been on mobile ...
The case for and against Sam ZellBusiness news and Fortune 500 - FORTUNE Magazine 12/15/2008
How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
Intel Releases Windows 7 Graphics DriverInformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/16/2008
Hardware vendors are getting an early jump on Microsoft's next OS to avoid Vista-style compatibility headaches.
Google: A little more like Microsoft every dayCNET News.com 12/16/2008
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