Microsoft launches a cooling base
crunchgear.com 3/18/2009 — Hold onto your hats, partner, because this is going to be a wild ride! Microsoft just announced a laptop cooling base. Why? Because laptops need to be cool, that’s why! The cooling base will cost $29.95 and should be available in July - ...

Microsoft does the unthinkable, reveals own Notebook Cooling Base
engadget.com 3/11/2009 — Desperate times call for desperate measures, and while we can't say with any level of certainty that Microsoft Hardware engineers weren't toiling away on this laptop cooling stand back in the heyday that was 2005, we highly doubt that's the case. ...

One Microsoft Way
feeds.arstechnica.com 2/7/2009 — One Microsoft Way

This is the Microsoft I want to see
venturebeat.com 3/2/2009 — People sometimes ask me why I dislike Microsoft. The answer is simple: I don’t — I’ve just been disappointed with much of what it has done in the past decade. This disappointment stems from the 1990s, when I was a big fan of many Microsoft ...

Microsoft Notebook Cooling Base announced to prove that Microsoft still makes PC hardware stuff
obsessable.com 3/10/2009 — LAPTOP FAN: Microsoft Notebook Cooling Base announced to prove that Microsoft still makes PC hardware stuff

Microsoft Courts Students at MIX
eweek.com 3/20/2009 — Microsoft is continuing its courtship of students, some as young as high school age, to bring new blood into the ranks of .NET developers and Microsoft platform users. Microsoft invited more than 150 college students to the MIX09 show in Las Vegas as ...

How staffing agencies are handling the Microsoft cuts
blog.seattlepi.com 2/26/2009 — Microsoft's staffing agencies are handling the company's decision to cut bill rates differently.

Microsoft Preps Open Source Apps Marketplace
eweek.com 3/23/2009 — Microsoft is in the process of building out a marketplace for open source applications that could work like an equivalent to an app store for applications, services and support for open source technology that runs on the Windows platform. At MIX09, ...

What do you want to see in Microsoft's retail stores?
arstechnica.com 2/13/2009 — The rumor first started in April 2008 , and many were skeptical Microsoft was really planning to follow in Apple's footsteps and launch its own retail stores. In November , the company launched its online Microsoft Store in the US, and the ...

Microsoft to open retail stores
crunchgear.com 2/13/2009 — I guess it had to happen: Microsoft is opening retail stores with the help of some guy named Dave Porter who used to work for Wal-Mart. Super synergy. I can see it now: these stores will be the exact polar opposite of the Apple Store - brightly ...

Microsoft expands its hardware line — CNET News.com 3/10/2009
The software maker moves beyond mice and keyboards with its first laptop-cooling base station.

Microsoft plugs remote execution, spoofing holes in Windows — CNET News.com 3/10/2009
Microsoft issues patches for critical and important holes in Windows but fails to plug Excel hole that is being exploited.

Noted Canadian Joins Microsoft's Board — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 3/10/2009
Maria Klawe is president of Harvey Mudd College and formerly headed the Association of Computing Machinery.

Microsoft promises 'first' relational cloud storage — The Register 3/10/2009
Policy U-turn adds SQL Server network protocol Microsoft has revealed a single, simple change for its cloud platform that should make full SQL-Server functionality available almost overnight this year.…

Microsoft Issues Three Patches For Eight Vulnerabilities — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 3/10/2009
A "critical" update resolves a vulnerability in the Windows kernel that could allow remote code execution if a user views a maliciously crafted EMF or WMF image file.