Microsoft Considering Its Own Retail Stores
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| If Microsoft does open its own stores, the company will likely staff the
| locations with Microsoft employees to help present its products exactly the
| way it wants. Presumably, Microsoft's stores would offer products like
| Windows Vista, the Windows version of Office, the Xbox 360, the Zune media
| player, and possibly even Office for the Mac.
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http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/04/11.8.shtml
Editorial - Microsoft Retail Stores Would Fail
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| Microsoft retail stores would be like putting lipstick on a chicken.
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http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2008/04/11.1.shtml
Related:
How will Windows survive the death of the PC?
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| For Microsoft, the answer is critical, since Windows is still not a
| natural fit for a mobile platform that has no PC heritage.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/16/samsung_runcom_help_microsoft/
Microsoft Looks Within to Design and Test Chips
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| For more than two decades, Microsoft's software and
| Intel's processors were so wedded that the pairingc
| ame to be known as Wintel. But as that computing era
| wanes, Microsoft is turning to a new source of chip
| design: its own labs.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19soft.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
http://tinyurl.com/ydtq7k
Microsoft to join municipal Wi-Fi fray
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| Microsoft is jumping into the municipal wireless space with a deal
| to provide local content and ads for MetroFi's free wireless
| Internet service in Portland, Ore., by the end of this year,
| the companies are expected to announce on Wednesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6135679.html
Gates to generate your electricity
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| His personal investment vehicle -- a nice drive if you can afford
| it -- Cascade Investments is today expected to partner with New
| Mexico-based PNM Resources on electricity generation and trading.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35521
Microsoft takes it to the bank
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| Is the world ready for Microsoft Banking? Banks are traditionally
| very conservative with their software and hardware choices, and
| most still rely on expensive mainframes with multiple levels of
| failure protection. However, banks are also making a huge push
| to expand into other services, such as investment planning, and
| all these new services require new software. If they are
| successful, Microsoft will be laughing all the way to the, er, bank.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/11/14/5956
Microsoft Refuses To Acknowledge Major Wireless Headset Flaws
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| Weeks after the release of the new Wireless 360 headset, many
| customers have complained about hundreds upon hundreds of documented
| flaws with no official response or product recall from MS.
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http://www.2old2play.com/News/Microsoft_Refuses_To_Acknowledge_Major_Wireless_Headset_Flaws
Intel CEO mum on Vista's impact
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| Before the question could even be finished, Otellini shook his head and
| said, "no," he was not getting into any discussion about Vista.
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| We considered that not just odd, given Otellini's history of taking on all
| questions, but a sign that Intel is seriously displeased with Vista. If that
| weren't true, why couldn't the CEO muster even a lukewarm response like, "We
| certainly think Vista a superior OS, but after five years in development we
| would have hoped it had more of an impact on creating a demand for PC
| upgrades."
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9846349-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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