MSN Admits Zune is Ugly
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| I saw a post on the homepage of MSN today for the top design disasters of the
| tech world. Guess what made the list? Our friend the brown Zune. Good to see
| Microsoft has some humor in itself, even if it is a stretch from one of their
| affiliate companies.
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http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/12/msn-admits-zune-is-ugly/
Ballmer: Microsoft's behind Google in ads, search
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| Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer says the software giant has a long
| way to go to compete with Google, when it comes to search and advertising.
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http://www.news.com/Ballmer-In-advertising-and-search%2C-Microsofts-way-behind-Google/2100-1024_3-6213073.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
A Word of Warning about Microsoft Live Writer
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| Reminds of my college newspaper days, when 20,000 copies hit the street with
| this gem of a headline (A 2-line headline is referred to as
| a "double-decker"):
|
| A Triple Decker
|
| Goes Up Here
|
| And Down Here
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/a_word_of_warni.html
Buggy software is standard.
Related and recent:
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| Yahoo was the second most used engine, followed by Baidu, the Chinese
| language search engine, the report said.
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| Google sites 37 billion searches
| ^^
| Yahoo sites - 8.5 billion
| ^^^
| Baidu 3.2 billion
| Microsoft sites 2.1 billion
| ^^^
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7039114.stm
Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company
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| The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into
| Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he
| helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2jran7
Microsoft says Zune executive will leave company
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| Bryan Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft's entertainment
| and devices division, also played a key role in shaping the Xbox
| game console business and the introduction of its Internet
| Protocol television software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6155200.html
Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits
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| In March, Blake Irving, the Corporate VP in charge of the Windows
| Live platform, announced his plans to leave Microsoft, effective
| this summer. Payne announced his resignation from Microsoft shortly
| after Irving made his announcement.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=407
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