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voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/21/2008

Spamhaus: Microsoft Now 5th Most Spam Friendly ISP

— voices.washingtonpost.com — Microsoft is rising quickly on a running list of the Top 10 Worst Spam Service ISPs as... maintained by spamhaus.org, a group that tracks unsolicited commercial e-mail. The software giant debuted on the list earlier this month at number 9 (one being the ... (more) Spamhaus: Microsoft Now 5th Most Spam Friendly ISP

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techcrunch.com - 11/24/2008

Microsoft To Rebrand Search. Will It Be Kumo?

— techcrunch.com — Microsoft will relaunch Windows Live Search under a new brand sometime early next year, says a source... within the company. What we don’t know is what that new brand will be, although a few names have been thrown around. According to our source, ... (more) Microsoft To Rebrand Search. Will It Be Kumo?

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hehe2.net - 11/17/2008

WTF?! Is It Just Me or Is That a Mac In A Vista Ad??

— hehe2.net — I know that this is a Linux blog, and thats what readers have come to expect. But... sometimes one encounters stuff that is just too good to pass. So that other day my dad bought a new HP Pavilion desktop, and since I am the geek in residence I ended up ... (more) WTF?! Is It Just Me or Is That a Mac In A Vista Ad??

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Insider emails show Microsoft feared Mac OS X vs. Windows Vista comparison in 2005
MacDailyNews — ... Inc. started poking fun at the operating system -- Microsoft Corp. officials were already worried about comparisons between Mac OS X and Vista, insider e-mails disclosed yesterday revealed," Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld. "An e-mail thread from October 2005, more than 15 months before Vista debuted, showed that an article in The Wall Street Journal by columnist Walter Mossberg grabbed the attention of managers at Microsoft," Keizer reports. Full article - recommended - here .

Microsoft Apple envy apparant from insider e-mails
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Computerworld's Gregg Kaiser, exposes some of the behind the scenes emails going on around the Vista marketing campaign at Microsoft.  Microsoft was already preoccupied with the Mac's reputation and how, in particular, Walt Mossberg had been singing its praises: "You won't have to worry about Vista if you buy one of Apple Computer's Macintosh computers, which don't run Windows," Mossberg had written. "Every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider the Mac. Its operating system, called Tiger [at that time, the most-current Mac OS X -- Ed.], is better and more secure than Windows XP, and already contains most of the ...

Microsoft saw Apple's anti-Vista campaign coming
AppleInsider — ... officials were concerned about the performance of Windows Vista and the way it would be compared to Mac OS X long before Apple zeroed in on the problematic software with its humorous "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" advertising campaign, internal emails show. Computerworld notes that in October 2005, more than 15 months before Vista hit the market, a column from the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg outlining recommendations for buying a PC with the upcoming operating system in mind caught the attention of Windows software engineer Padmanand Warrier. Troubled by a particular ...

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