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microsoft.com - 2/12/2009

Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice President of Retail Stores: Twenty-seven-year ...

— microsoft.com — Twenty-seven-year retail veteran will focus on transforming the PC and device-buying experience for retail consumers and developing and rolling out new Microsoft-branded stores. REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 12, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that ... (more) Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice ...

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news.cnet.com - 2/13/2009

Microsoft splits Zune team in two

— news.cnet.com — Software and hardware functions will be separate as company prepares for a day when the Zune service is offered via multiple devices. The move follows layoffs and a rough holiday quarter. (more) Microsoft splits Zune team in two

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blogs.zdnet.com - 2/13/2009

Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores

— blogs.zdnet.com — Microsoft is planning to launch a number of new Microsoft-branded retail stores, according to a company press release issued late in the day on February 12. (more) Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail ...

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Don't Believe Microsoft Phone Rumors
Microsoft Watch — ... be frustration that the Windows Mobile product is not getting the mind-share / market share with RIMM, AAPL and even Google Android stealing the thunder. We suspect MSFT may alienate some of their existing Windows-Mobile customers who will now compete with them in hardware. It's not puzzling for Microsoft to do reference designs, rather than create a smartphone. Long-time Microsoft observer Michael Gartenberg is convinced there will never be a Microsoft phone. Yesterday, he blogged : I think it's pretty clear that we're not going to see a phone from Microsoft. I've talked ...

The Macalope Weekly: With competitors like these, who needs friends?
Macworld — ... the law of Mac rumor site infallibility! You know, the one where they can have all the details of a device—features, price, timing—100% wrong but still be “right” when something roughly similar gets announced years later. She can’t steal their patented rumor-validation intellectual property! But why is the Macalope thrilled by this news? He is thrilled because a Zune phone must, by the comic laws that govern our universe, be simply hysterical. And the Macalope’s not going to let Michael Gartenberg’s staid, reasonable analysis stand in the way of his dream of one day being ...

The Macalope Weekly: With competitors like these, who needs friends?
MacUser — ... the law of Mac rumor site infallibility! You know, the one where they can have all the details of a device—features, price, timing—100% wrong but still be “right” when something roughly similar gets announced years later. She can’t steal their patented rumor-validation intellectual property! But why is the Macalope thrilled by this news? He is thrilled because a Zune phone must, by the comic laws that govern our universe, be simply hysterical. And the Macalope’s not going to let Michael Gartenberg’s staid, reasonable analysis stand in the way of his dream of one day being ...