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“…actual questions from actual interviews conducted by Microsoft employees on the main campus.” gulfstream/769
Don’t be mean, Apple! Also, the iLife ad is a bit unfair in that Microsoft wouldn’t be allowed to bundle anything vaguely similar with Windows. (It … gulfstream/2075
Slate is now making money. (Also discussion of how being an arm of Microsoft helps, general analysis of the economics of web publishing.) … gulfstream/1130
Hullo font geeks! Adobe’s OpenType User Guide describes some of the features of the new OpenType format (which was developed with Microsoft). … gulfstream/900
Long post on what Microsoft is doing to try to acquire Yahoo, and how hostile takeovers happen in general. gulfstream/2432
Profile of Crispin Porter + Bogusky (a few months old), the non-traditional ad agency behind Microsoft’s new (and quite good) Seinfeld + Gates campaigns … gulfstream/2515
Rather nice rant about Microsoft Word embedded in this Louis Menand piece about writing, citations, and style guides. (Which reminds me: what’s … gulfstream/1295
Analysis of Google Chrome, pointing out that for quite a while, Microsoft have been legally prevented from deeply integrating IE into Windows: “Chrome, … gulfstream/2511
The iPod, with packaging designed by Microsoft. gulfstream/1999
MSN 5.0 (for Mac) looks rather nice. The features page says it can be used across different networks (!)—anyone got this to work/know what it’s … gulfstream/1812
Problems with IE’s SSL implementation, etc. You can count on Slashdot to jump up and down about any security problem that Microsoft pooh-poohs—but … gulfstream/893
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Here is an important new development in the Washington press corps' perceptions game. Often in the past, when chasing some alleged miscreant, the press … fortune
What's really been great for us is the iPod has been a chance to apply Apple's incredibly innovative engineering in an area where we don't have a 5%-operating-system-market-share … fortune
I remember coming to work in the morning when our sales were $20 million, and I'd tell myself: "This means we have to sell $100,000 of software before … fortune
The machines process the half-billion lines of code necessary to simulate 777 flight on eight megs of RAM, less than you'll find in most laptops. "It … fortune
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How we test the compiler backend - Visual C++ Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Interix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don't really understand this, but it seems to add POSIX compatibility at a fairly low level to Windows. Provided by Microsoft.
Dynamic Variables - Microsoft Research
Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com
"The company’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, has continued to deliver huge profits. They totaled well over $100 billion in the past 10 years alone and help sustain the economies of Seattle, Washington State and the nation as a whole. Its founder, Bill Gates, is not only the most generous philanthropist in history, but has also inspired thousands of his employees to give generously themselves. No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure."
Windows 7: The almost-there operating system « Trying To Be Helpful
Seadragon.com
JS widget for providing "deep zoom" features--you provide an image, it produces the tiles and the JS code required for the panning and zooming.
Principles of Service Design: Service Patterns and Anti-Patterns
argues that CRUD is not SOA
Microspotting | You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft
guy worked at a gas station in seattle; moved to work at microsoft doing tech support and eventually became a programmer. realised working at microsoft was great when he realised that you didn't have to ask for permission to take a bathroom break.
IE8 and the X-UA-Compatible situation | FarukAt.eş
how ie8 uses the X-UA-Compatible header, and what rendered mode is used in different situations.
Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 | Webdesigner Depot
moblog: The Windows Shutdown crapfest
PC System Design Guide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
there's actually a standard for those different coloured 3.5mm ports on the back of pcs: lime green is "Analog line level audio output for the main stereo signal (front speakers or headphones)."
Ajaxian » Microsoft Live Labs Web Sandbox
microsoft tool takes html + js, returns sandboxed js that can safely (maybe) be embedded in a page.
Windows Vista Help: Use Snipping Tool to capture screen shots
vista evidently has a nice screenshot tool, good for bug reports
CoRD: Remote Desktop for Mac OS X
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
bill gates has trouble downloading software from microsoft.com
What laptop does Steve Ballmer use for his presentations? Right... on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
Download details: IE App Compat VHD
ie 6,7, 8 virtual machines for xp and vista
Microsoft's New Database Cloud Ready to Rumble with Amazon | High Scalability
new hosted distributed database from microsoft. not sql--more like amazon's simpledb, couchdb, etc.
Why The Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Will Be a Disaster - Silicon Alley Insider
Smart Network Data Services
see if your email is getting rejected by hotmail
Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F#
Microsoft Excel : Calculation Issue Update
LM hash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say “No” To Google
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo (video)
Download details: PowerPoint Viewer 2007
get the new windows vista fonts by: (a) downloading the powerpoint viewer; (b) installing cabextract and de-cabbing the installer (twice) to get some *.ttf files.
Nick Tosches: Autumn and the Plot Against Me: On The Web: vanityfair.com
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Enable Parent Paths Is Disabled by Default in IIS 6.0
how to get include file="../foo" to work in iis 6
Microsoft Typography - TrueType Hinting (1 of 5):Introduction
Microsoft adCenter Labs Demonstration
Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth
Rockin' on without Microsoft | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
Use of Microsoft Copyrighted Content
A guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell : Page 1
XML.com: An Overview of MSXML 4.0
Poynter.org - Microsoft Longhorn Readability Fonts
Poynter Online - The Next Big Thing in Online Type