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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Announcing the Microsoft Newton

courierWell, what do you know? Like Apple, Microsoft is also developing a tablet computer. It’s called “Courier” and it’s remarkably different from what Apple is imagined to be cooking up.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Do You Have a Reservation at the Virus Bar or Are You Here for the All-Day Workshop on Printer Drivers?

flanders_microsoft_store_thumbApple and Microsoft have long competed for market space. And soon they’ll be competing for retail space as well. In remarks at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference today, COO Kevin Turner said Microsoft has settled on a location for the retail stores it announced earlier this year: Right next to Apple’s stores. There goes the neighborhood, right?

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Wrath of Icahn

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

And It’s Easily Cleaned With a Bit of Microsoft Windex …

gates_touchwall.jpgMicrosoft started with a vision of a computer on every desk, and soon it hopes to put one on every wall as well. During Microsoft’s 12th annual CEO Summit today, Chairman Bill Gates demonstrated TouchWall, a 4-foot-by-6-foot multitouch computer that can transform home and office walls into computers.

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Gates at CES: Big Pimpin’

Tonight, tech’s highest roller gave what may have been his final Vegas performance. Sadly, it was far from his most memorable. All glitz and very little glory–certainly not the sort of glory befitting such an iconic figure. In the end, the memory of the event that lingers longest is not Gates reflecting on his storied [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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