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Where is the Microsoft Surface theme song?

February 12, 2013

For the launch of Windows95, Microsoft licensed Start Me Up from the Rolling Stones as a way to kick off the biggest software upgrade in the company’s history and forever brand Mick Jagger’s crooning with a key feature of Win95. Now we have the Surface. Where’s the theme song?

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Steve Ballmer Developers Rap

May 4, 2011

Mad props for getting Linus Torvalds into a rap song. This has to be a first. Smixx – Developers (feat. Steve Ballmer) by Smixx

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All Aboard for the Cloud Wars

March 1, 2011

Marketing campaigns are gearing up for the major players offering cloud services as add-ons to their core products. Google Docs recently launched Google Cloud Connect,  a plug-in which lets  you add your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to Google Docs and share with your colleagues. (Ars Technica reviews Cloud Connect and says it’s “not ready [...]

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Viral Video – Two Approaches

July 1, 2010

My aunt Karen is in the advertising industry and she forwards me snippets where our two industries cross paths. It’s always interesting to see something you know really well from another perspective. In this case, she sent over an article from Advertising Age, Why Microsoft Killed Kin After Just Six Weeks While the article’s conclusion [...]

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Loosely Connected

February 4, 2010

Mike Manos has joined Nokia as VP of Service Operations and has been tasked to build the cloud infrastructure for our Ovi services. The New York Times calls him a “data-center celebrity” and reading his blog certainly shows the knowledge and experience he brings to the table. His initial post gives a hint of his [...]

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Microsoft Tablet vs. Apple Tablet

September 30, 2009

Gizmodo has the goods on the Courier Tablet while Wired’s Gadget Lab has the summary (and hilarious mockup) of something iLounge is calling an the iPad. Either way, folks are looking for a way to innovate beyond the touch screen and netbook form factor. I’m not so sure this is the solution. If it’s going [...]

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BrowseRank – Microsoft’s Answer to PageRank

July 25, 2008

Microsoft announced today that they’ve discovered a better way to rank web pages. While Google’s PageRank sorts roughly on the number of incoming links that point to a page, a vote of confidence by bloggers and website editors, Microsoft’s BrowseRank looks at browsing behavior to see which links get more clicks. Sounds good on the [...]

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Where’s the Kaboom?

May 4, 2008

There are so many things I could say right now about Microsoft walking away from the table this past weekend. More than anything, I feel like someone peering up over the parapet and looking at the smoke clearing from the battlefield. Listen to marvin03.wav Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom?

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Microsoft Max – a P2P picture sharing service or viral user acquisition service for Passport?

September 10, 2006

Like everyone else who follows RSS readers closely, I downloaded the new Microsoft Max application and started playing around with it. The application is stunning in its presentation and really shows off what you can do with Microsoft’s .NET Framework and, kudos to Microsoft for releasing this as a prototype for future development. As an [...]

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Google’s Real Market – Small Business

February 15, 2006

Keen observation by Phil Sim on Squash – follow the money trail and you’ll see that Google’s real customers are the small business clients that are buying advertising, not the millions of users running searches. This puts them in direct competition with Microsoft who sees their fastest growing market in the SMBs. People have questioned [...]

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