Engineers at Microsoft are experimeting with ways to speed up touch latency on mobile devices.
Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'
Googlighting
March 1st, 2012 · Comments Off · humor, Internet, Microsoft, tech, video
“What happens when the world’s largest advertising business tries to sell productivity software on the side? Beware the Googlighting Stranger.” Microsoft’s no holds barred anti-Google Apps video portrays Google in a less than flattering light. It’s nice when the big boys duke it out.
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TellMe vs. Siri
November 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Apple, Microsoft, tech, video
Aussie bloke pits a Windows Phone 7 voice assistant against an iPhone 4S Siri. Teen anal? Pfft!
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Kinect effect
November 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · Microsoft, news, tech, video
M$’ Kinect turned one year old last weekend. Their promo video features invisible musical instruments and other such imaginary friends. More here.
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Where are they now?
February 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off · history, Microsoft
As Microsoft seems to be unravelling from the top down you just have to sit back and wonder what happened to all of the original members of the 1978 founding crew shown in the above graphic. The BusinessInsider has a bead on all eleven of them.
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Microsoft vs. Java
January 25th, 2011 · Comments Off · humor, Microsoft, tech, video
Follow along in this nifty drama of a son who is blacklisted by his own family for going against tradition.
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Windows phone
September 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · humor, Microsoft, tech, video
A new ad for the Windows phone 7 system phone doesn’t suck and also carries a message.
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Gates & Ballmer – A Night at the Roxbury
June 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · humor, Microsoft, video
Obviously taken during much better times.
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Steve Ballmer rendered in BSODs
May 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · bizarre, humor, Microsoft
That is all.
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HP Slate
April 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Microsoft, news, tech, video
Anyone remember Ballmer introducing an iPad-like device just prior to Apple’s announcement? We finally have a video of the thing being demonstrated. How much of the video is CGI is anyone’s guess. The device, which runs Windows 7, is not yet available for sale.
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Microsoft Bob
March 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · history, how-to, Microsoft, odd, stupid, tech, video
On March 31st, 1995, Microsoft introduced Bob, a user interface for uneducated computer users. From the beginning, Bob has been considered the stupidest idea ever conceived for a PC. Today, fifteen years later, it is still considered the stupidest idea ever conceived for a PC. Bob was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las [...]
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The death of Internet Explorer 6
March 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · bizarre, humor, Internet, Microsoft, news
It was inevitable. Finally, after 8 long years of rotten code, IE6 will have it’s “funeral.” More and more Internet services are dropping support for the browser this month. A little memorial will be held in Denver later this week. Check out the details here. (Incidentally, all our work computers are running XP with IE6 [...]
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