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Microsoft's YouTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean

Microsoft's official YouTube channel was hijacked on Saturday and all videos hosted on it were temporarily removed. The hacker replaced them with others claiming that Microsoft is holding a contest.

Senh: Youtube channels are getting hacked lately. First, it was Sesame Street's channel, which replaced kids videos with porn. Now, it's Microsoft's turn.

 

Steve Jobs' Post-Mortem Advice For Google, Microsoft, And President Obama

Steve Jobs authorized biography(ironically I ordered it for my Kindle) comes out Monday and he was pretty upset with Google and its Chairman Eric Schmidt. The exact quote, if you haven't read it is:"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

Senh: This article is gone from Forbes. I wonder why.

 

Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Acquisition Deal

Welp, it's official. Microsoft and Skype are one. Well, Skype isn't alone in this world any longer, anyway. While this deal was announced months back, there has been plenty of work in the time being to ensure all the legalities were ironed out. Now, Microsoft has closed its acquisition of Skype, locking in an $8.5 billion payment that was...

 

European Union approves Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype

The European Commission approved Friday the proposed $8.5 billion acquisition of the Internet phone and video communication provider Skype by Microsoft Corp., saying the deal would not significantly impede competition in Europe. The approval appears to be the final step in the technology company’s effort to acquire Skype. The European Commission is the EU’s executive branch.

 

Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo: sources

Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo: sources

Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.

 

Microsoft Explains Why the Start Menu Needed to Die

On Tuesday, Microsoft explained why the Windows 8 start menu is now a start screen: no one used it.

Senh: Really? I use it all the time. I have my shortcuts, but whenever I need to access a program that I didn't creat a shortcut for, then I click on the start menu. It's a good organization of every program on the computer.

 

IBM Tops Microsoft in Market Value

IBM topped rival Microsoft in market valuation for the first time since 1996, the latest sign of the technology industry's shift in emphasis away from the personal computer.

 

Microsoft breaks with PC world, reinvents itself with Windows 8

Microsoft breaks with PC world, reinvents itself with Windows 8

Last week, at a large developers’ event, Microsoft formally introduced its next operating system to the world, and it’s nothing like the Windows you’re used to. It’s clear the company has watched and learned as Apple stormed into the marketplace with the iPhone and iPad. Microsoft’s new Windows 8 looks and feels like it’s built from the ground up to do away with the noisy, dated interfaces of the desktop computer, replacing them with a touch-friendly experience that’s focused on a new way of computing.

 

Is Windows 8 Doomed?

Is Windows 8 Doomed?

There was a time in the tech business when your company could be as slow as molasses in January yet still prevail based on shear market size. That day disappeared in the rear view mirror many years ago, as Microsoft is about to learn as it prepares to introduce a major Windows upgrade.

Senh: Here's a pessimistic view of Windows 8. It's Fox News, so they gotta be "fair and balanced."

 

Adobe: Flash is an Exception to Windows 8's 'Plug-in Free' Rule

One of the unambiguous messages we heard from Microsoft's Build 2011 conference in Anaheim all last week was that development of HTML5 "Metro-style apps" for Windows 8 would be "plug-in free." All requests for Microsoft to "clarify" that rule only underscored the blunt reality of the statement: HTML5 is about the absence of plug-ins, and thus, Metro will have an absence of plug-ins ...

 

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