ostatic.com - 1/30/2009
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Even Microsoft can't ignore the power of Mozilla's Firefox browser anymore. The company has released a Firefox extension called Live Search that is designed to deliver fast results and suggestion based on Microsoft's search engine from within Firefox. The extension was written by the Live ...
news.cnet.com - 1/30/2009
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Remember that teenage trick of sticking your fingers
in your ears and saying, "I can't hear you"?
That's how I felt on Thursday morning when I talked to Adam Sohn, the marketing director for Zune. No retreat, baby, no surrender. I don't ...
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Microsoft: More Zunes coming in 2009
seattlepi.nwsource.com - 1/30/2009
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Microsoft Corp. is suing a former employee, claiming
that he applied for a job at the company
under false pretenses and then used his role at Microsoft to gain access to confidential data related to patent litigation he is now waging.
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Microsoft sues CEO of Ancora for spying
crunchgear.com - 2/1/2009
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The poor bastard who got a tattoo of
the motivational “Blue Monster” has been laid off .
Blue Monster Man, Dan Woodman, writes: Working at Microsoft has been the greatest experience of my life and I have no desire to forget about it. ...
(more)
Blue Monster guy laid-off at Microsoft
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