crunchgear.com - 1/15/2009
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Remember this video from last April ? The video featuring a Springsteen-like band singing about Windows Vista? We all watched, jaws on the floor, for three minutes and two seconds, each of us wondering if another video would ever come along to make this one go away.
Well here’s the promo ...
neowin.net - 1/19/2009
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neowin.net —
Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile
services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona
next month. The software giant is aiming to move your mobile data into the cloud and rival Apple's MobileMe service. Microsoft announced the ...
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Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month
microsoftontheissues.com - 1/9/2009
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microsoftontheissues.com —
Workforce Development and Economic Stimulus Given the constant
flow of dreary news battering American workers – including
today’s announcement that jobless claims soared to 524,000 in December as the unemployment rate jumped to a 16-year high of 7.2 ...
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Microsoft On The Issues
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/17/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
The European Commission has accused Microsoft of harming
competition by bundling its Explorer web browser with its
Windows operating system. The commission said it had reached the preliminary view that the US software giant had undermined consumer ...
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BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft is accused by EU again
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Videos: Microsoft’s Songsmith Promotional Video is Embarassing to Watch
The UberReview —
Microsoft seems to have created its own little thing of creating deliberately bad promotional videos. I have to say, while we may mock profusely, it does give them a lot of publicity. This video is the usual fare, but what is amusing is that the laptop in the computer seems to be a last generation Mac Book Pro running Vista (albeit with a sticker covering the Apple logo. [Consumerist via Crunchgear]
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Songsmith Makes You Calm, Fitter, Healthier and More Productive
TechCrunch —
While this could have been anything from Kid A, this is actually a version of "Creep" reworked by Microsoft Songsmith and the peppy beats could potentially completely cure the melancholy infused into countless proto-Goths by this moody yet charming band over the years.
The strange thing is this: SongSmith actually brings out some of the original music here but the quality here is nill. It reminds me of chiptunes. I once heard "Closing Time" done on a Gameboy's audio processor and the song, which is a bit schmaltzy in the first place, sounded like one of the songs ...
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