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Microsoft reaches out with 'Touch'
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| Microsoft surprised attendees to Novemberâs
| Professional Developers Conference with free
| touch-screen laptops. It wasn't largesse, for
| the company had an ulterior motive: to get
| developers to write applications that utilize
| touch interfaces.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/MICROSOFT_REACHES_OUT_WITH_TOUCH_/By_David_Worthington/About_MICROSOFT/34001
Microsoft Recruits Student Bloggers With Free Software And Trips To Conferences
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| Weâve confirmed with Microsoft that the tech
| giant has launched a new program, called Student
| Insiders, to enlist college students to blog
| about Microsoft products. In return, the
| Microsoft âStudent Insiderâ will be able to
| attend Microsoft conferences, such as
| Microsoftâs developer conference, PDC, and
| others and then write about their experiences
| and the products. The student will get all
| expenses paid to attend conferences as well as
| receive free training on Microsoft products.
| Student Insiders are expected to cover 15 events
| or topics a year, with at least â500 engagements
| per event/topic.â
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| It appears that Microsoft will try to recruit
| students with âestablished blogsâ to write about
| a wide variety of Microsoft products. The
| advertisement we received focused on getting
| students to review Microsoftâs Expression
| Studio, a design and development software.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/15/microsoft-recruits-student-bloggers-with-free-software-and-trips-to-conferences/
Microsoft begins testing new tech support forum staffed by paid 'independent experts'
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4817
It seems like Microsoft also have COLA "staffed by paid 'independent experts'."
Recent:
Would Top Sites Really Opt-Out Of Google Based On A Microsoft Bribe?
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| Every so often, internet pontificators try
| to come up with ways to "kill Google." It's
| a silly game, but in an oddly timed move,
| three people (who have all put forth "how
| to kill Google" ideas in the past) all
| suddenly published similar ideas, yet
| again. Jason Calacanis, Mark Cuban and Tom
| Foremski all posted similar ideas about how
| certain sites (such as the top sites in the
| top search results) could all choose to
| opt-out of Google and, say, join another
| search engine like Bing. It's one of those
| ideas that sounds good for about 5 seconds.
| And then you actually think about it.
| First, the numbers being tossed around
| concerning how much it would cost, say,
| Microsoft, to convince most of these sites
| to opt-out of their number one driver of
| traffic is significantly higher than what's
| being mentioned in these articles. Many of
| these sites rely on Google traffic to make
| a ton of money, and they're not going to
| throw that away easily.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1153526971.shtml
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