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  1. Comment - Betanews contest: Re-doing Bing, or, 'Name That Search Engine'

    (May 29, 2009 - 5:07 PM)

    The obvious answer: Microsoft Bob Hope. As they say in their blog announcement, "We needed a brand that was as fresh and new as our approach." They just need to sue Stephen Wolfram into atomic dust using their patents on FAT and Mono, co-opt the Wolfram Alpha engine and swapped Mathematica for Visual Basic and Wolfram’s brain for the exhumed corpse of Bob! My blog post on the subject: http://notnews.today.com/?p=500

  2. Comment - The Windows name: Is there special significance to '7?'

    (Oct 16, 2008 - 7:30 AM)

    Tentative names included Windows Blackcomb, Windows Vienna, WindOS X, Windex, Windows Steak and Bl*wj*bs Edition!!! (which proved in beta testing to be Tofu and Long Querulous Discussion About Where Our Relationship Is Going Edition) and Windows 2007^W2008^W2009^W2010.

    Blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/3l8pws

  3. Comment - Sony Ericsson to finally roll out its subscription music service

    (Sep 24, 2008 - 7:57 PM)

    Yes, this subscription service will work, unlike every other subscription service ever. And it'll be completely unlimited and DRM-free! Except for the limitations and, er, the DRM. I wrote a rant about it: http://tinyurl.com/4m2tjt

  4. Comment - Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan

    (Sep 4, 2008 - 8:04 AM)

    Microsoft Japan is already actually paying people to take the machines, with little success."We hope more people will be able to enjoy Xbox 360," said marketing marketer Takashi Sensui, "and we can stop enjoying quite so many of them. We also have this fine pile of HD-DVD drives ... Wait! Come back!" http://notnews.today.com/?p=63

  5. Comment - Microsoft extends Xbox 360 price cut to the US

    (Sep 4, 2008 - 8:00 AM)

    Microsoft Japan is already actually paying people to take the machines, with little success."We hope more people will be able to enjoy Xbox 360," said marketing marketer Takashi Sensui, "and we can stop enjoying quite so many of them. We also have this fine pile of HD-DVD drives ... Wait! Come back!" http://notnews.today.com/?p=63