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Microsoft spent $1.9M lobbying gov't in 2Q
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/08/24/business-technology-hardware-amp-equipment-us-microsoft-lobbying_6808591.html
Microsoft's 'Edge' With Obama
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| Reports that President Obama will be able to keep his BlackBerry likely
| provoked smiles in Waterloo, Canada--and frowns in Redmond, Wash.
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| [...]
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| First, of course, Obama needs to use the device. Microsoft is optimistic that
| he will. "We have a whole group working with the Executive Office of the
| President," says Siegel. "We've had various conversations with the right
| people about this. Everyone would like him to use the device that everyone
| agrees is most secure."
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http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/technology/100161887-1-microsoft%2527s-%2527edge%2527-obama.html
The long road to HTML 5
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| The developers also are planning to use Microsoft Silverlight for future
| parts of the service, too, according to a source. The choices make sense.
| Flash players and, to a lesser extent, Silverlight are widely accessible by
| browsers in the United States. But by using those technologies, the White
| House was showing a preference for a single vendor's technologies, something
| government agencies try to avoid. It looks too much like an endorsement and
| invites vendor lock-in.
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http://gcn.com/articles/2009/08/31/html-5-long-road-to-development.aspx
The Trouble With Trillions
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| There are very many half-way reasonable projects that just would not cut it
| according to normal investment criteria. Take the $11 million to build a
| bridge connecting two adjacent portions of Microsoft's headquarters in
| Redmond, Washington. If Microsoft, with its vast financial resources, had
| figured that the bridge was worth $11 million dollars, wouldn't they already
| have been planning to build it themselves, without any stimulus money? Since
| they didn't do it themselves, all we really know is that they valued the
| bridge at less than $11 million. In other words, taxpayers spent $11 million
| and turned it into something less valuable.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/08/25/john-lott-trillion-deficit-obama/
Recent:
GE, Microsoft, Caterpillar fight Obama tax plan
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| Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) have seen their
| bottom lines bulge over the years by farming out work for cheaper
| compensation to overseas countries. Now, with the U.S. economy reeling,
| President Obama's $190 billion tax proposal that ends incentives for American
| companies to create employment overseas while hoping to create more jobs in
| America won't necessarily have the intended impact, according to economists,
| businesses and some Obama insiders, Bloomberg reports.
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http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2009/05/obama_tax_plan_could_collatera.php
REI, Microsoft meet with Obama on health care
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| Local companies REI and Microsoft were among a handful of businesses praised
| today by President Obama for programs designed to make their employees
| healthier and keep down health-care costs.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009211558_webreiobama12.html
Microsoft offers stimulus-tracking software
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| Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled a software program that will help
| government agencies track projects funded by the economic stimulus program.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30567123/
Obama Names Craig Mundie to Sci-Tech Advisory Council
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/04/27/obama-names-craig-mundie-to-sci-tech-advisory-council.aspx
Microsoft Taps Pryor To Lobby Senate
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| Microsoft has hired David Pryor Jr. as director of government affairs, where
| he will lobby the Senate.
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| The company's newest lobbyist has family ties to the Senate. His father, is
| former Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark. and his younger brother is Sen. Mark Pryor,
| D-Ark. who was elected in 2002.
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http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2009/03/microsoft-taps-david-pryor-jr.php
Ballmers, Gateses give combined $200k to Obama inauguration
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| The committee's website also lists "William Gates" for a
| $50,000 donation, although it's not clear [i]f that's the
| Microsoft co-founder or his father, who are often confused
| in elections filings. Melinda Gates is listed separately
| for another $50,000 donation, as is Ballmer's wife, Connie.
| That's $200,000 total from the Gates and Ballmer families,
| for anyone keeping track.
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| [...]
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| Rob Glaser, RealNetworks CEO, $50,000
| Steven Van Roekel, Windows Server Solutions, $50,000
| Nick Hanauer, Second Avenue Partners, $25,000
| Craig Mundie, Microsoft chief research and strategy
| officer, $25,000
| Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, $25,000
| Mike Mathieu, former CEO of All Star Directories, $25,000
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Ballmers_Gateses_give_a_combined_200000_to_Obama_inauguration36851134.html
BSA lobbies Obama for software patents at the Democratic Convention in Denver
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| IP-watch tell us that BSA went to lobby Obama at the Democratic Convention in
| Denver with a list of principles, where the first one is "inspire creativity
| and innovation through strong, comprehensive, and enforceable intellectual
| property policies, including copyright, patent and trademark laws." Software
| patents are definitely on the top of the agenda of American multinationals.
| BSA does not has any small software company in its members, and Microsoft
| more active then the other members in using the association as a vector for
| its purposes.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-86815/bsa-lobbies-obama-for-software-patents-at-the-democratic-convention-in-denver
http://tinyurl.com/68wgn9
Microsoft Word Now Knows the Difference Between Osama and Obama
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| In my post yesterday, I quoted a frustrated reader who couldnât believe that
| Microsoft Word still proposes âOsamaâ as a corrected version of âObama.â He
| wanted to know why Microsoft didnât update its dictionary.
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/microsoft-word-now-knows-the-difference-between-osama-and-obama/?ref=personaltech
Microsoft tries to fix big glitch on Obama
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| One mixup, with potentially vast effect, apparently belongs to the
| unintentional category and gained wide currency this week: The spell-checker
| in Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail software recommends that users replace the
| word "Obama" with "Osama."
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| 'Can of worms'
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http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/19875329.html?location_refer=Most%20Viewed:Homepage
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