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| Angel investor Tom McInerney, co-founder of the video site Guba.com,
| agreed: "Microsoft has been humbled a little bit. They've been forced to play
| nice. A cultural change has taken place with Microsoft. There is an
| acknowledgment that they are not the king of the hill anymore. And there is
| the looming concern that Google is the new Microsoft."
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http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_7285782?nclick_check=1
Ten Myths of Leopard: 10 Leopard is a Vista Knockoff!
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| Suddenly, rather than just being successful, Apple was made out to have the
| same anti-consumer, criminal ethics of Microsoft. “Apple is the new
| Microsoft” morphed into a perverse logic that subtly insisted that Microsoft
| would somehow be a good alternative for users fearful of worries about Apple
| instilled by the concern trolls.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/11/10/ten-myths-of-leopard-10-leopard-is-a-vista-knockoff/
Related:
Google Only Ahead Of Microsoft In Search: Ballmer
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| Live Spaces: nice tie in with the MSN chat platform, but still a poor cousin
| to Blogger as a blogging platform.
|
| Video: did someone say YouTube?
|
| The list could go on and on and on and on…. but I’ll stop there. Certainly
| Google hasn’t dominated every market it has taken on, but to say that Google
| runs second to Microsoft online in everything but search says a lot more
| about Steve Ballmer than it being a true reflection on today’s online
| marketplace.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/08/google-only-ahead-of-microsoft-in-search-ballmer/
Google's Android just a press release, says Ballmer
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| Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might
| have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
| and one of Google's biggest competitors.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/110807-googles-android-just-a-press.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Google reads your email, shocker - Steve Ballmer claims
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/google-reads-email-shokka
More on Troy Wolverton, the Street, and Apple Scandal
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| MediaNews did buy the Mercury News with a loan from Bill Gates' foundation,
| and is in the process of paying back that loan by publishing information
| without much journalistic or technical integrity.
|
| Specifically, I wrote “One might think that the San Jose Mercury News, being
| located in Apple's backyard, would tend to trumpet the company's success. One
| would be wrong... Apple's corporate proximity to San Jose is trumped by the
| Mercury News’ need to publish low cost, highly sensational news to make
| enough money to pay back Bill Gates for the favor of his humanitarian loan.”
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/082663E0-6FD8-4F1D-909F-1BC72833AD02.html
Bill Gates fund reports 12.8 pct PlanetOut stake
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| Bill Gates' investment fund Cascade Investment LLC reported in a regulatory
| filing on Friday that its holds a 12.8 percent stake in the common stock of
| online media company PlanetOut Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1331033020070713?rpc=44
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
|
| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
|
| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
|
| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
PC World Editor Resigns When Ordered Not to Criticize Advertisers
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| Apparently he also told the staff that product reviews had to be
| nicer to vendors who advertise in the magazine. The sad thing is
| that given the economics of publishing in this day and age, I
| doubt anything even comes of this even tho it essentially
| confirms that PC World reviews should be thought of as no
| more than press releases. I know that's how I will consider
| links from them in the future. But congratulations to anyone
| willing to stick to their guns on such matters.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/1810239&from=rss
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