In April, Microsoft called for an antitrust investigation into Google. I checked my calendar and it was the 16th, not the first. continue
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Stand a little less between me and the sun
on 11 May 2007
If you can’t beat ’em, pointlessly ape their bricks-and-mortar retail strategy
on 30 September 2005
So the New York Post reports that Microsoft is scouting for a storefront on Times Square, ‘to play catch-up with arch-rival Apple’. Blimey, you think you’ve made up with someone, then one little iPod patent and it’s arch-rivals all over again. continue
Lights! Camera! Legal action!
on 10 June 2005
It could only be Microsoft. Who else in the free world would launch a propaganda contest? continue
Would you like cranberry sauce with that?
on 12 December 2003
Windows Media Player (the latest version of which is now shipping for Mac) includes a most bizarre feature. When you rip a track from a CD, you can optionally ‘obtain a licence’ from its copyright holder continue
Rubbish: a history
on 21 November 2002
Garbage disposal is a problem as old as mankind itself, or possibly older. While most translations of the Bible suggest God ‘rested’ after completing the Creation, some scholars render this as ‘phoned for a skip’. continue
System of a down
on 3 March 2000
BILL GATES: Hello and welcome to the launch of Windows 2000. US JOURNALIST #1: It’s fantastic! US JOURNALIST #2: Quiet, he hasn’t started yet. continue
The sincerest form of flattery
on 25 June 1999
Microsoft and Intel, the multi-billion-dollar corporations which globally dominate the design and production of computer hardware and software but don’t have any kind of monopoly, have launched a new specification to define the future of the personal computer. continue
Soft evidence
on 19 February 1999
There were fresh surprises in the Microsoft trial today, as lawyers for the US Department of Justice uncovered more flaws in defence evidence.
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Yule be lucky
on 11 December 1998
’Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the campus / At Infinite Loop there’s a wheeze like a grampus… continue
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