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25 Jun 2009 10:21

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Tech: Windows 7: Still expensive, but cheaper than Vista

  • $119 The price the average consumer will pay to upgrade to the Home Edition from Windows XP or Vista; the most expensive package – a new version of Ultimate – costs $319 source

18 Jun 2009 11:01

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Tech: Microsoft’s Bing is gaining in popularity week by week, guys

  • 16.7% Bing’s overall share of the search engine market last week source

15 Jun 2009 02:58

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Politics, Tech: Dear TechCrunch: Your journalism sucks sometimes. OK?

  • One of the Techcrunch‘s bloggers, MG Siegler, has become known for somewhat transparent shoddy journalism of late, but the worst example yet may be his tearing apart of Microsoft’s gesture by claiming that it all looks like hooey to him. If you’re gonna post something, do your homework or don’t post at all. OK? source

10 Jun 2009 09:21

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Biz, Tech: Google’s CEO sez Microsoft is just making noise with Bing

  • It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year. I don’t think Bing’s arrival has changed what we’re doing. We are about search, we’re about making things enormously successful, by virtue of innovation.
  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt • Who says that, despite Bing’s early popularity, they’re not a threat and will “evolve to a different strategy” that won’t affect Google. In other words, MS is rattling their cage again and not really hurting anyone. • source

05 Jun 2009 10:05

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Tech: The new search engine in town, Bing, isn’t doing too shabby

  • No worries, they’re still dominant: Google’s market share is still at an overwhelmingly huge 71.47%. source
  • Microsoft’s just-launched Bing search engine comes on strong with a 16.28% market share. source
  • Sad little also-ran Yahoo seems to be suffering the brunt of Bing’s early success, falling to just 10.22%. source

01 Jun 2009 20:56

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Tech: Jesus tap-dancing Christ, MS brought its Xbox A-game to E3

  • Oh yeah, the games: Most importantly, Bungie is back on board for a brand-new Halo game, “Halo: Reach,” out next year.

28 May 2009 21:04

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Tech: Wow. CNet says Microsoft’s Bing search engine tops Google

  • Google keeps improving in the area of in-search collation and display as well, but Bing makes Google look complacent, and that’s not good for Google. For the moment, Bing’s on top in this game.
  • CNet reviewer Rafe Needleman • On Microsoft’s Bing, the funnily-named new search engine designed to compete with Google big time. Needleman says Bing doesn’t consistently top Google, but it does it enough to make it look competitive. That’s OK, though; Google should be fine. Heck, MS totally got upstaged by Google today. But that said, Bing launches fully on June 3 keep an eye out. • source
 

27 May 2009 20:16

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Tech: Again, MS is late to the game with its new Zune. Here’s why.

  • Why would we want to listen to HD radio when we can stream stuff from the Internet? source
  • It refers to itself as having a HD display, but that display is smaller than the iPhone. *hmm* source
  • Just because a music player can connect to a video game system doesn’t mean it should. source
  • It supposedly has a Web browser, but if its name is “Internet Explorer,” no way Jose. source
  • Lauren probably wouldn’t want one because it’s trying too hard to be really hip. source

27 May 2009 10:50

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Tech: Wannabes. Microsoft, Sony get in the Wiimote controller game

  • Microsoft’s device, granted, is a camera-based device that will allow users to move around without use of a controller …
  • rip-off #1
  • rip-off #2

25 May 2009 18:24

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Tech: Bing! Apparently Seinfeld’s influence on Microsoft continues

  • $80 million plus to rebrand their also-ran search engine source