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Microsoft Copies Apple Icons…
Found this funny snippet today online. Looks like Microsoft was caught with an Apple icon on one of its properties. Here is the image from Microsoft’s website for Vista Business Edition: Here is the...
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Microsoft’s Jim Allchin: ‘I would buy a Mac if I didn’t work for Microsoft’
Sorry, but I found two Apple/Microsoft snippets worth posting today. This ComputerWorld article is amazing. Jim Allchin is the long-time development chief for Windows at Microsoft. ComputerWorld is...
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Microsoft Caught with a Bad Case of Mac OS Envy
There is a new blog on WordPress called Graceful Flavor, and they tend to focus on Apple news. They had a post yesterday that immediately caught my eye, entitled: New Microsoft Email Shows Panic Over...
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Bill Gates Loses His Cool
As someone who has been following the Apple/Microsoft relationship for almost twenty years, this week offered a real first for me – Bill Gates losing his cool in the face of relentless questions about...
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Steve Jobs Drops a DRM Bomb on the Music Industry: Thoughts on Music
Who would have guessed that on a random Tuesday in February, Steve Jobs would decide to drop a bomb on the music industry. But that’s what he did today, on the Apple.com website: Thoughts on Music:...
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Celebrating 10 Years of the Mac BU at Microsoft… in Stickies!
Sorry, one last post for the night. This was too cool to pass up. The Macintosh BU at Microsoft, which was formed after the 1997 Apple/Microsoft alliance, just celebrated their 10th anniversary....
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Mobile Search: What are People Looking For?
I feel like I’m perpetually behind with my blog lately. This tidbit is from a few days ago, but I think interesting enough to still warrant a post. JumpTap has a nice chart out on their breakdown of...
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What Do You Do When You Catch Mozilla & Microsoft Dancing?
OK, sensationalist title for some trivial pictures, but these were too good to pass up. Don Dodge posted some images from the recent Mix07 conference. Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Pictured...
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How to Mount NTFS Drives on Mac OS X with Read/Write Access
Elliot, this post is for you. A couple of weeks ago, I got really irritated with the whole Mac/Windows thing. I had purchased a USB hard drive with the intention of using it as a backup drive for both...
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Life at Google: The Microsoftie Perspective
I, like everyone else, am enjoying reading this post of pseudo-Q&A with an engineer who worked for Microsoft, then joined a startup that got acquired by Google. Not sure how legitimate it is, but...
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Proof That Microsoft Did Not Copy Vista from Apple Mac OS X
Who knew David Pogue was a funny guy? This video cracked me up.
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Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD: The Microsoft Conspiracy Theory
This article was funny enough that I had to share. Engadget: Michael Bay’s format war conspiracy theory: it’s a Microsoft fix Here is a tidbit: Responding to a commenter angry over Paramount’s decision...
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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3: First Impressions
Got to be careful what I say here. Mike Schroepfer might be reading. Actually, I was reading his blog when I found out that Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out. You can download it here. I’m playing the naive...
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Should You Be Eating Your Own Dog Food?
One of the best parts of my job at LinkedIn is responsibility for a world-class User Experience & Design team. It’s a new and rapidly growing team, and with the addition of new people and new...
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Source Code That Allegedly Broke the Microsoft Zune
Thanks to Lawrence, Ryan, JSTN. while (days > 365) { if (IsLeapYear(year)) { if (days > 366) { days -= 366; year += 1; } } else { days -= 365; year += 1; } } For non-programmers out there, this...
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Easter Egg: The LinkedIn Wizard Goes Web-Wide
For some reason, I *love* Easter Eggs. No, I don’t mean the candy colored eggs that people make and roll to celebrate the holiday. Easter eggs are the playful name for hidden features, games, and...
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Blackberry’s Impossible Mission
Today, Research in Motion Blackberry announced with great fanfare their new Blackberry 10 operating system and devices. Unfortunately, the market has shifted so radically in the past few years, it’s...
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Leadership Lessons from the Code Conference
This past week, I was able to attend the inaugural Code Conference organized by Walt Mossberg & Kara Swisher. One of the perks of the conference is, within close quarters, the chance to hear the...
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