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Microsoft rep shows up Bing Maps, stunning augmentation

Microsoft on February 19th, 2010 Comments

Microsoft’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated some stunning augmented reality integration inside of Bing Maps at the (Technology Entertainment Design) TED conference last week.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas worked on the Seadragon technology at Microsoft which is designed to retrieve large amounts of data using a fast, seamless, zoom based interface. The technology [...]

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A rootkit has been confirmed to cause all of this Windows XP BSOD madness

Microsoft, Security on February 18th, 2010 Comments

Last week, Microsoft issued an update for Windows XP that made them suddenly get the Blue Screen of Death each and every time you tried to boot up. Microsoft had to try pretty hard to figure out what the problem was, and they found out that it wasn’t technically the patch they put out, but [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo are combining! The deal has been approved

Microsoft, Search Engines on February 18th, 2010 Comments

The European Commission and US Department of Justice have both approved a Microsoft and Yahoo deal that will see the software giant acquire the internet search and search advertising businesses of Yahoo.
In a statement on Thursday, the European Commission (EC) concluded that the market shares of both Microsoft and Yahoo were limited. [...]

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Microsoft’s Hotmail had a security blip earlier.. wow what is going on?!

Microsoft on February 17th, 2010 Comments

A statement isssued by Microsoft revealed that the company is looking into reports that some users of its Hotmail service were accidentally shown other users’ inboxes when attempting to access their mail through their mobile phone. The Windows Live sign-in service was down for an hour yesterday; whether the two events [...]

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Microsoft IE9? When did this come about.. when is this coming out?

Microsoft on February 16th, 2010 Comments

Microsoft’s mid-March Mix 2010 is filling out nicely! Giving us all sorts of nifty information that we really haven’t been talking about much.
Yesterday, the guys from Redmond told us with lots of remaining questions about Windows Phone 7 after yesterday’s unveiling that “all will become clear at Mix.” Now Microsoft is promising to share more [...]

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Microsoft: Next version of Windows will be completely different

Microsoft, Technology on February 16th, 2010 Comments

A Microsoft project manager has posted and then removed a blog post regarding what he feels the next version of Windows will be like.

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This whole Windows BSOD update has gotten even more wacky

Microsoft on February 13th, 2010 Comments

Microsoft, is scrambling. They are scrambling as much as I scramble eggs, and it is getting pretty out of hand. If you really wanted to update to Linux and you needed one last reason, this is probably it.
Long story short, there was a 17 year old security hole that was inside, and the engineers over [...]

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