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When asked about Steve Jobs in a TV special that aired this week, Bill Gates said the Apple co-founder has shown “more inspiration” than any other leader in the tech industry.
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Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome →
People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.
Chrome Frame is a new browser plug-in developed by Google to give you a Chrome browsing experience inside of Internet Explorer. Let me restate that slightly to make it more clear: Chrome Frame turns IE into Chrome.
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Killing IE6 Helps Fight World Hunger (Really!)
Can’t convince your mom and dad to upgrade from IE6? Tell them it’s to fight world hunger.
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Is Apple the Enemy of the TV Industry? Microsoft Thinks So →
Music’s long struggle with the web has been well documented. As consumers shifted from CDs to digital media, music labels, artists, and the RIAA have struggled with how to cope. While some have decided to sue consumers for $22,500 per song, others have found ways to embrace the web.
Now Microsoft’s Director of Consumer and Online in the UK predicts that the same turmoil is going to hit the television industry in the next few years. And unless the TV business “aggressively move its content online” and builds “a critical mass of content that the traditional buyers of airtime will understand and buy into,” they will face an “iTunes moment” where their online business becomes dependent on Apple.
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In Apple’s Ad War, Microsoft Has Started to Fight Back →
Sean Siler would never be mistaken for a movie star. A former Navy officer who wears glasses and is a tad on the heavy side, Mr. Siler works at Microsoft, where he oversees the Windows division’s adoption of new Internet connectivity software called IPv6.
But there were audible gasps last summer when Mr. Siler, 39, auditioned for Microsoft’s new ad campaign for Windows, created by Crispin Porter & Bogusky, the Miami agency best known for its cheeky work for Mini Cooper and Burger King.
“I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’ ” recalls Rob Reilly, one of the agency’s executive creative directors. “It couldn’t have been more perfect.”
Everybody agreed that Mr. Siler looked exactly like PC, the character played by the comedian John Hodgman in Apple’s popular “Get a Mac” ads that lampoon Windows-based computers and those who love them. Two weeks later, Mr. Siler reported to a nearby television studio. The agency dressed him in PC’s dorky uniform — white shirt, baggy khakis, brown sport coat and matching brown tie — and handed him a script with the lines: “I’m a PC. And I’ve been made into a stereotype.”
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Microsoft sucks at Photoshop. But it could always be worse.
(Click through the photo for more examples of terrible Photoshop jobs.)
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It’s too obvious! I mean, the boxes don’t line up! What a bad graphics guy.
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Microsoft: IE6 Cannot Die →
We here at Mashable have been big proponents of eliminating Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) from the web. As we passionately argued in IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On, the outdated browser is stifling innovation, breaking websites, and hurting the advancement of new web technology.
A lot of people agree with us as well: Twitter and Digg, for example. Some of the web’s most popular companies even got together to form IE6 No More, a campaign to eliminate the horrendous browser.
Now the chorus has grown so loud that Microsoft itself has responded to the movement. The blog post on the Internet Explorer blog goes through the entire debate. While Microsoft advocates upgrading, it also highlighted the difficulty of getting people to upgrade and, most intriguingly, stated that “dropping support for IE6 is not an option.”
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Microsoft ID’s First Store Spaces →
Microsoft has confirmed the precise locations of its future Scottsdale (Ariz.) andMission Viejo (S. Calif.) retail stores, and posted photos showing the construction barricades painted white and sporting various product logos and the new retail trademark. As reported here last week, the store inside Scottsdale Fashion Square will be in space #1288 (pdf), a 60-foot wide space on the lower level, about midway in the mall. The Mission Viejo store will be in a 75-foot wide space (pdf) just off the mall’s main atrium. The company announced the malls last week, and earlier this week posted job listings for employees to staff the stores.
It’s just like an Apple Store, except the employees don’t make sense, and will freeze whenever you ask a question.
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