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News.blog: Photosynth goes public

News Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its "ooh, that's pretty" status to being a viable Web service for consumers. With its latest version, Microsoft has managed to shrink that into around the time it takes to...

Tags: managed, photographs, labs, collections

21 August 2008, 10:16

Email Prioritizer 'pauses' Outlook

News Microsoft Office Labs has released a prototype plug-in for Outlook that pauses incoming mails and rates them according to importance. Because it is an experimental tool, Email Prioritizer does not currently enjoy Microsoft support.

Tags: labs, mails, incoming, emails

21 August 2008, 9:15

News.blog: Microsoft's Flickr rights shockr

News Microsoft has always been rather strident on the topic of copyright infringement, as you may have noticed. Update: Selby, Blessed and Lumley are all still judges, Microsoft just told us. They still refuse to explain how they (Microsoft) screwed up...

Tags: imaging, photographs, rights, marketing

13 August 2008, 9:56

Windows to be replaced by Midori?

News Microsoft Windows' future appears to lie in 'the cloud', with details emerging about a possible new Web-based operating system from Redmond, called 'Midori'. Microsoft is refusing to comment on the new OS, saying Midori is one of many incubation...

Tags: os, hardware, cloud, research

6 August 2008, 9:47

Could 64-bit Vista finally be taking off?

News After several fits and starts, Microsoft finally released a 64-bit version of Windows XP in the fall of 2005. In a blog post this week, Microsoft's Chris Flores noted that 20 per cent of new Windows Vista PCs in the US that connected to Windows...

Tags: desktops, cent, models, gaming

5 August 2008, 10:19

Report: Google to advertise in games?

News Other companies such as Double Fusion, IGA Worldwide, MochiMedia, NeoEdge Networks and Microsoft-owned Massive Incorporated have been doing in-game advertising for some time already. Google is close to launching in-game advertising through a...

Tags: market, ads, google, advertising

4 August 2008, 10:09

News.blog: Yahoo Music switches off

News Surprisingly, Yahoo has chosen to dive headlong into a controversy that entangled Microsoft earlier this year. To Microsoft's credit, it announced last month that it was extending the deadline and would continue issuing keys for three more years.

Tags: keys, yahoo, transfer, protection

25 July 2008, 9:56

News.blog: Digg sold to Google soon?

News Rumours that the social news site might be purchased by Google, Microsoft, or two major media companies had whipped a sizable number of Digg users into a panic. Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all...

Tags: companies, google, comment, acquisition

23 July 2008, 9:20

News.blog: Yahoo and activist Icahn reach settlement

News Icahn, who had proposed his own slate of board members, was agitating for the company to reach a deal to sell all or part of the company to Microsoft. Icahn and Microsoft officials had previously stated that they could not work with the existing...

Tags: sale, yahoo, board, continue

22 July 2008, 9:32

News.blog: Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft joint bid

News Yahoo announced on Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a 'complex restructuring' and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.

Tags: board, deal, yahoo, financial

14 July 2008, 9:18

News.blog: Microsoft quiet before iPhone 3G day

News When Apple launched its App Store on Thursday before the release of the iPhone 3G, I checked to see if I could find anything from Microsoft. There were applications from Salesforce.com and Oracle, but nothing from Microsoft.

Tags: noise, browsing, developers, windows mobile

11 July 2008, 10:01

Photos: Gibson frets over custom guitars

News Gibson made for top Microsoft employees. The guitars can easily go for more than at retail and some, like a very small series of Les Pauls that Jimmy Page played and signed, are worth more than $100,000 on the open market.

Tags: channels, body, shape, production

1 July 2008, 10:16

Ending an era with Bill Gates' best quotes

News Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. We will never make a 32-bit operating system.until Microsoft launched the 32-bit OS, Windows NT 3.1 in 1993, that is (speaking at the launch of MSX in 1989).

Tags: industry, speech, magazine, cnet news

27 June 2008, 10:00

Asus Eee Box ready for August release

News Eee Box also serves as a reminder of Microsoft's latest concession regarding the extended availability of Windows XP. The cut-off date for sales of the operating system is 30 June, after which customers are supposed to buy Vista instead, but...

Tags: linux, box, operating system, xp

23 June 2008, 10:09

Photos: Futuristic PCs think out of the beige box

News In addition to his first place award, Holleman's design also struck a chord with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who handpicked the Napkin PC for the Chairman's Award. Credit: Microsoft/Taeho Wang, Minjoong Kim

Tags: fantasy, entry, human, shape

20 June 2008, 9:57

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Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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