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Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: Sweat Time at Microsoft

BY Stan Slap
Relevancy Score: 41

"You just did a very bad thing," said Bill Gates, reacting to a presentation of Stan Slap's suggestions. In this excerpt from his upcoming book, "Bury My Heart at Conference Room B," consultant Stan Slap relates how Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and a room full of Microsoft execs loved and loathed the concept of leading with your values.READ»

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iFive: BP Delays Cap Test, Apple Finds Allies, Microsoft's 12th Man, WikiLeaks Details, Google Thanks Fiber Fans

BY Addy Dugdale
Relevancy Score: 35

While you were sleeping, innovation was putting on a jaunty little cap to wear with its oil-colored capelet, eschewing anything nerdlike such as black T-shirts, and leaving home without its British citizenship.1. What is a disaster ...READ»

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Microsoft's Windows 7 Phones Will Push Ads On You?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 30

We've yet to see how Apple's iAd campaign works in the flesh, and it's already been deemed slightly controversial. Yet with news about Microsoft's own aggressive ad plans for Windows Phone 7, Apple again seems like the good guy. A ...READ»

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iFive: BP and the Arts, Animals Love Innovation too, Italy Crashes Out, Microsoft Goes Very Mobile, Facebook's New Employee

BY Addy Dugdale
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As Little Italy drowned its sorrows with buckets of grappa and espresso chasers, innovation was poking fun at oil giants, skittering around on its bionic paws and playing Hunt the New Facebook Employee in the corridors of the White ...READ»

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iFive: Rdio, HP, BP, Neuro--that's the New Euro--and Microsoft

BY Addy Dugdale
Relevancy Score: 43

While you slept, the innovation news kept gushing. Here's what you've missed so far:1. "We did not have the tools you would want in your tool kit," said BP CEO Tony Hayward in an interview for the FT (did you know that BP's official ...READ»

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How a $2 Version of Microsoft Office 2010 Could Cost More Than $100, Eat Up New PC Memory

BY Kit Eaton
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Calm yourselves, Microsoft Office fans--the new version for 2010 isn't due for launch until tomorrow. Until then you can amuse yourselves with info on how MS is manhandling, shoehorning, and maneuvering to make the launch a ...READ»

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Microsoft's Sleep Server Can Green Corporate Networks

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the smartest. That's the case with Microsoft's sleep proxy project, which preserves remote access to corporate desktop machines while allowing them to remain in sleep mode. Consider: Many people ...READ»

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Microsoft Cancels Innovative Courier Tablet Project

BY Gizmodo Staff
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According to sources familiar with the matter, Microsoft has cancelled Courier, the folding, two-screen prototype tablet that was first uncovered by Gizmodo. We're told that on Wednesday, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer execs informed ...READ»

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Officials in China Find Labor Violations at Microsoft Supplier

BY Addy Dugdale
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Several days after the National Labor Committee reported that one of Microsoft's suppliers was maltreating its underage, overworked employees, the Chinese authorities have weighed in, accusing two companies of violating local labor ...READ»

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Mac vs. PC Ads Finished? Justin Long "Can't Say Definitively" (But It's About Time)

BY Addy Dugdale
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Justin Long, the floppy-fringed star of the Mac v. PC ads, revealed that he heard it from a good source (er, a PC, actually) that the sweet-natured, yet passive-combative ad campaign run by Apple is coming to an end. In an interview ...READ»

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

BY Austin Carr
Relevancy Score: 27

Daily news of note about our Most Innovative Companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, and Funny or Die.READ»

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Most Innovative Companies - Technology

BY Mark Borden
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Microsoft Announces New "Chief Creative Officer" Position

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 17

The software behemoth appoints a 13-year veteran to a new position, meant to oversee ad relationships.READ»

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Icon Wasteland: the Madness of Multiple Desktops

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 37

Everywhere we look, we are surrounded by desktops. Once it was merely our laptops and PCs, and then it was our companion netbooks, too. Then our Web 2.0 accounts: Facebook, MobileMe, Google apps. After that, our phones got smart ...READ»

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Bing Introduces 3-D Photosynth Maps

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 23

In an effort to beat Google at mapping, Microsoft Bing will use crowd-sourced photos to create a 3-D virtual worlds in its Maps application, the company has told FastCompany.com. The 3-D models will eventually be knitted into Bing ...READ»

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Microsoft Opens Surface "Interactive Table" SDK for Free

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 41

Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the Surface software developer kit, or SDK, to ...READ»

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Chrome OS Is Still Not an Attack on Windows

BY Chris Dannen
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Google's OS was sneak peeked today at the Googleplex. The Wall Street Journal digital called it a "direct challenge to Microsoft Windows." Really? Let's clear up some confusion once and for all: Putting the word "OS" after something ...READ»

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What Happens If Apple Grows Too Fast?

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 22

CNBC is predicting that Apple may top Microsoft as computing's most valuable firm. But that kind of success might be self-defeating. As CNBC rightly acknowledges, Apple has a long way to go before it can dethrone Redmond, but ...READ»

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Microsoft Quarterly Revenues, Profits Take a Hit

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 21

If Apple's recent financial report had a musical theme, you might choose Tchaikovski's 1812. But Microsoft's just-revealed quarterly stats might incline toward something somber from Handel ... they're not looking cheery. The lead ...READ»

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Microsoft a "Bunch of Clueless Idiots," Says Danger Source

BY Chris Dannen
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AppleInsider has reported disclosures from several sources close to the Microsoft/Sidekick debacle, saying that the failure is only a taste of Redmond's growing internal incompetence. The sources, which AppleInsider claims were ...READ»

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Furious Sidekick Owners Blame Microsoft

BY Chris Dannen
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Update: T-Mobile says that much of the data may indeed be recoverable on Microsoft's backend, according to the New York Times. Engineers in Redmond are "optimistic that much of it can be recovered," but individual customers have yet ...READ»

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Can Microsoft Grab Leadership Role With Mouse 2.0 and Other Interface Designs?

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 52

The software giant has produced five prototypes for multi-touch mice--and the stakes are high.READ»

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Microsoft's Looking Glass Tool Tracks Social Buzz for Companies

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 21

So you can figure out how to calm the angry Twitter masses or handle Facebook slapdownsREAD»

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Microsoft Expects a Party From You

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 31

Barack Obama got a big lift from social Web-inspired parties during his presidential campaign. So why not do the same with Windows 7 when it launches on October 22?READ»

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Does Bing Visual Search Actually Work?

BY Chris Dannen
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Microsoft dropped a major new Bing feature today: "visual search." It does what it sounds like, instead of giving you a list of links with thumbnails, Bing gives you a bunch of images you can sort through. But does this actually ...READ»

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