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Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:32 PM

Ballmer at VC Summit

Dan''l Lewin kicked off Microsoft's Annual Venture Capital Summit at our campus in Mountain View, CA today. Dan'l spoke about the Strategic and Emerging Business Team (SEBT), our Innovation Centers worldwide and our work with Students with programs like
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:22 PM

Skyfire will change your life

One of the most impressive DEMO s I’d seen at DEMO last year was Skyfire ’s. For those of us who have had smartphones with limited web browsing capabilities (like Pocket IE with Windows Mobile), Skyfire will forever change the way you use your smartphone.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:58 PM

Do you like apples?

Will : Do you like apples? Clark : Yeah. How do you like them apples ? “ ai ”
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:16 PM

The Commercials – let’s call a spade a spade

I’m just as perplexed as anyone else about the commercials . I’ve been following our advertising story closely for the last couple of months right up to our launch on 9/4. But this cartoon nails the way I (and most of my friends seem to) feel:  
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:50 AM

Yammer should enjoy it’s 5 minutes of internet fame

I’ve been perplexed for a few days about TechCrunch50 ’s winning pick, Yammer . I finally started to use it, and I’m not all that impressed. Clearly, winning at TC50 has done wonders for Yammer, but I don’t think this spike will last long. /* Yammer is
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Friday, September 12, 2008 6:29 PM

TechCrunch50 – crème de la crème

This week, TechCrunch reinforced itself as the most powerful tech blog on the planet. TechCrunch50 was everything it was made out to be. Startups, press, speakers – these guys were the crème de la crème of their respective contingents. The TechCrunch50
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:20 PM

Ashton Kutcher doesn’t think the Surface is just blah blah (blah)

Ashton Kutcher launched his new startup, Blah Girls , at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco this week. Ashton walked by the Microsoft lounge several times, in and out of interviews as you can imagine. From Ashton’s most recent blog post , I think he liked
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:31 PM

TechCrunch50 – Day 0

I’m pretty damned stoked about TechCrunch50 . I spent most of today setting up the Microsoft lounge area at the venue. The idea for the lounge started when I was sitting with the Qik team brainstorming ways in which we could partner to do some fun things
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 1:30 AM

Qik announces support for more Windows Mobile devices

The mobile-based video streaming company, Qik , has announced support for even more Windows Mobile devices. Over the last few days, Bhaskar and Jackie announced support for the following devices: AT&T Tilt HTC Touch Dual HTC Touch Diamond HTC Touch
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:29 PM

Windows Server support for Amazon EC2 - coming soon

At Amazon Web Services’s Startup-Tour here in San Francisco, Jeff Barr just announced the AWS roadmap and it included “support for Windows Server”. Jeff says that Amazon has received “several requests” for Windows Server support for EC2 and while he couldn’t
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