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venturebeat.com - 3/2/2009

This is the Microsoft I want to see

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People sometimes ask me why I dislike Microsoft. The answer is simple: I don’t — I’ve just been disappointed with much of what it’s done in the past decade. This disappointment stems from the 1990s, when I was a big fan of many Microsoft products (and incidentally, could not stand Apple ...

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blogs.msdn.com - 2/26/2009

Microsoft “Surface in a Yacht”

— blogs.msdn.com — "Lazzara Yachts and Microsoft along with software development company Infusion became the first to launch the Microsoft... Surface technology into the yachting industry. This technology will change so many aspects of how our owners will be able ... (more) Microsoft “Surface in a Yacht”

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