We totally fucking had a Windows 7 Launch party in the back room at BuzzFeed, you guys. It was the BEST goddamn Microsoft Operating System themed party I have EVER been to. Are you installing, or thinking about installing Windows 7 today? Upload pics of your own launch or pre-launch parties below!
Microsoft finally gets it with this heartbreakingly adorable commercial for Windows 7 that blows that Mac Guy out of the water. Let's face it: the Internet loves kitties surrounded by marshmallows!
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After 50 years of the iconic Futura typeface, IKEA has made a switch to Verdana. The 2010 IKEA catalog, now arriving at doorsteps around the world, reveals the company's choice to change all typography to the Microsoft font that every web designer has grown to hate.
Microsoft's website in Poland replaces a friendly looking black man found on their English site with a creepy looking white guy. Microsoft has since apologized and changed the image back, but that hasn't stopped the Something Awful forums from taking it and running with it.
http://www.techmeme.com/090812/p3#a090812p3
A Judge in the Eastern Texas District Judge found against Microsoft in a patent infringement suit, and has filed an injunction against the company that will prohibit sales of their flagship word processor Word™ in the U.S. Business analysts suspect that this will not effect sales.
Tech Buzz Google's auto-suggest search feature reveals a lot about the deep, inner psychology of the site.
Microsoft's Bing Jingle contest winner is the most gets-into-your-head-and-won't-leave advertising song since Toyota's “Saved By Zero” campaign. If you easily get songs stuck in your head, I don't recommend clicking through to watch this.
http://www.choicevalueinnovation.com/thedeal/Default.aspx
holy cow … this is huge!
We'll never know why Microsoft decided to pull this ad for Internet Explorer 8. But we will get to see a guy that looks kinda like Will Forte slip in vomit.
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2009/06/ie-vs-firefox-microsof...
In a pretty clever marketing ploy by Microsoft, they have “buried” $10,000 somewhere on the internet, and claim it can only be found using clues and the new Internet Explorer. My bet: Some clever hacker is going to find it using Firefox on Linux, right?
http://mashable.com/2009/06/11/microsoft-dumps-ms-money/
Although the Web 2.0 craze is largely behind us now, a couple of years ago there was a raging debate over whether online apps will ever be as good as desktop applications. If I remember correctly, naysayers were winning the debate; it seemed back then that complex, full-featured apps like Word, Photoshop and others could not be touched by lightweight, simple online applications. To some extent, this is true; professionals will keep using applications like AutoCAD, and I’d sooner expect AutoCAD to go online in some way than to see an online app take over its supremacy. However, many desktop apps have succumbed to online competition, and this trend will continue. Case in point: Microsoft’s discontinuation of Encarta (which was overwhelmed by the infinitely better Wikipedia) and now, MS Money.
http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009...
So this puts me in an awkward spot. I can't really discuss this too much further at the moment, but since Reuters dropped the ball. * Microsoft getting ready to unveil free anti-virus service * Software maker says will soon put beta version on website * Company employees testing it internally
Have you “Binged” yet? I used the new search engine for the first time today, and was greeted with this. Too soon? At least it's relevant.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/168702
If you're having trouble working with Excel, you might want to try moving your mouse continuously for several minutes. (Fun fact: it turns out that Microsoft's Help page is secretly written by your grandmother.)
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“Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 Webcam” from Microsoft is surging on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000NBAIZ8?tag=buzz0f-20
“Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 Pack” from Microsoft is surging on Amazon.
Culture Buzz Browse through 53 archival issues of Playboy, for the articles of course, and zoom at will. Downside is installing Microsoft's Silverlight, which is like Flash, only not actually Flash. Upside is issues ranging from 1954 to 2006 — you can read Nabokov and Sartre, and then you can watch how everything went downhill fast in the '80s.
Did anyone else do a mini-swoon for Microsoft's latest Windows commercial? Kylie, 4 ½, explains how she easily mails pictures of her fish Dorothy to her family. The girl is practically a computer hacker, but why does she have to email her parents? WHERE ARE KYLIE'S PARENTS?!?!?!!?!?!?
Microsoft Songsmith can turn anything into music genius, including the downward spiral of the global economy. This is clever, but then it gets kind of depressing. Cheer yourself up with a selection of classic songs Songsmith-ified.
In the wake of this week's Microsoft layoffs comes this mostly tactless cartoon parody.
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