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Microsoft claims it has to support IE6 because customers are still using it

As various big social media companies get behind a movement to stop people using Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft has said that it won't drop support for the 8 year old browser. Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager ... continue

Xbox 360 summer dashboard update hitting soon

Xbox Live is going to be down for an unspecified amount of time on August 11th, but this time for a worthwhile and explicable reason. That's because Microsoft will be updating your console with a brand new ... continue

Microsoft finally rids itself of a sharp fin in its side

It would seem that Microsoft is in the process of finally getting rid of businesses that it had accumulated through the purchase of larger companies. The news today is that the rumors of the ... continue

Xbox Live down overnight, makes apparent recovery

Gawker, Twitter, Facebook: all have temporarily gone down in the past few days in what has been a week of high drama on the stormy Internet seas. Last night, Xbox Live joined them in Downtime City, further ... continue

Xbox 360 autographed by Sarah Palin going for a million bucks

Doggone it, here's something. Ebay seller dmorrill123 has a luxury item that most of us Joe Six-packs might struggle to afford: a Sarah Palin-signed Xbox 360. The starting bid? A snip at $1.1 million. *winks* "The infamous Sarah ... continue

Microsoft Yahoo deal is a big win for Bing

After over a year of failed talks, takeover offers, proposals and god knows what else, Microsoft and Yahoo are finally doing business together in a deal to be formally announced Wednesday. Kara Swisher broke the news, with AdAge ... continue

Microsoft Issues Emergency Security Bulletin – Update Now

Microsoft has issued an emergency security bulletin after finding previously unknown vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. They recommend that you update your software now. The vulnerabilities allow remote code execution in the Internet Explorer browser. From Microsoft: This security update ... continue

Waggener Edstrom’s head of their Microsoft account has a new job

My first reaction when I read Frank Shaw’s post this morning about leaving Waggener Edstrom Worldwide for a VP position at Microsoft was one of – talk about jumping from the frying pan into ... continue

Microsoft fearing yet another EU bite of its wallet gives in

I am sure that this news will be giving a bunch of browser competitors a climax to their eternal wet dream of Microsoft being brought to its knees but in the end I don’t ... continue

Ah the perfect weekend link bait: Leaked Microsoft store pics

We all know that this is going to spread like wildfire throughout the tech blogosphere within the next couple of hours and provide us all with a weekend full of link bait headlines, but ... continue

Silly lawsuit time with Apple & Microsoft in Tsera crosshairs

Here we go again folks, yet another frivolous lawsuit being filed in The Eastern District of Texas (Tyler) District court which as we all known is the favorite court of silly companies looking to ... continue

Where is the Microsoft marketing team getting their great drugs?

Over the past little while we have been seeing some really different advertising coming out of the Monster at Redmond. Sure a lot of people didn’t like the Seinfeld and Bill ads (I thought ... continue

Considering Google Chrome OS with a serious pinch of salt

Some 24 hours after Google surprised no one and announced Google Chrome OS, the tech blogosphere has experienced its own equivalent of a Royal Wedding. While there's been a full spectrum of opinion, the coverage is tending ... continue

Google enters the Operating System market with Chrome OS

After years of speculation, Google is finally entering the (non-mobile) operating system market with Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system running Google Chrome exclusively on top of a Linux Kernel. The new ... continue

First Microsoft shook up its search – next up: Internet Explorer

There were, and still are, a lot of naysayers about Microsoft’s recent reworking of its search offering and subsequent launch of Bing. Its impact on the whole search business was never expected to be ... continue

The IE8 puke ad pulled – the warm and fuzzy crowd wins again

Last week I wrote here about the new series of online ads that Microsoft was running for Internet Explorer 8 and truth be told I thought they were all funny as hell, and yes ... continue

The coming Windows 7 tsunami: OMG which version do I get?

Just to clarify – this post is meant for all those windows users that are looking to upgrade to windows 7 when it finally hits the market. It isn’t meant for penguin lovers or ... continue

Warped and funny IE8 ads, I’m still chuckling

I know, I know. Microsoft and funny ads just don’t seem to go together. It’s almost as if the world is coming to an end, but I gotta tell ya folks these are definitely some funny ads ... continue

Hulu for PS3: Denied

"Unfortunately, this video is not available on your platform. We apologize for any inconvenience." Burn. Sometime this weekend, Playstation 3 owners began reporting inability to access Hulu through the device, and receiving the above message. Hulu was kind ... continue