Sony launches missile Sony has launched a new salvo in the battle for the home media centre market against Windows Media Centre-based PCs and Apple’s “Digital Media Hub” strategy. PlayStation 3, already in 675,000 Australian homes — and 20% of those in the last three months — gains a new “TV” icon. Initially this provides direct access ABC iView […]
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Guy Rundle: Microsoft, Rupert’s latest longevity ploy
Now the full portability of text has occurred, it should be obvious that news organisations will decompose –- just as department stores no longer have their warehouses out the back, and chemists no longer have someone in the back making up goop.
Has Murdoch just saved the newspaper industry?
The newspaper industry is desperate for cash, and Microsoft — and its search engine Bing — has bucketloads of it to spend. Can newspapers save themselves by selling the tech giant exclusive rights to their content?
Murdoch puts a gun to Google’s head, Microsoft helps pull the trigger
Rupert Murdoch has been threatening to pull all News Corp content from Google, and Microsoft is willing to pay him to do it. But Bing can’t buy all the news — and it might just sell its credibility in the process.
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Microsoft-Murdoch deal in the works
Microsoft is in negotiations with News Corp to pay the media empire to pull all its news content from Google, insiders tell the Financial Times.
Kristof: Microsoft’s Bing is a Chinese propaganda tool
NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof is calling on his readers to boycott Microsoft’s Bing search engine, because it actively censors search results in China on politically sensitive topics like Tienanmen Square and Tibet.
Former Microsoft ambassador: Why I’m ditching Gates for Google
Microsoft’s former “ambassador to startups”, Don Dodge, worked at the company for almost five years, but now he’s saying goodbye to Outlook, Office and IE, and hello to Gmail, Docs and Chrome: he’s a born-again Googler.
Apple closes in on Microsoft
Ten years ago, Apple’s market capitalisation was $17 billion and Microsoft’s was $356 billion. Today, Apple’s is $182 billion, compared with Microsoft’s $261 billion. Can it come from behind to completely conquer the computing market?
VIDEO: Reinventing the mouse
With the rise of laptops and touch-screen computing, many have predicted the death of the computer mouse. But Microsoft is working on five cool new iterations of the device that integrates multi-touch technology to go well beyond the old point-and-click.
Google has its head in the clouds over biggest deal yet
Google has nabbed its highest-profile client so far, with Los Angeles City Council voting to dump its Microsoft Office applications and transfer over to Google Apps’ ‘cloud computing’ based services. Is Microsoft’s dominance of the office software market under threat?
Only in Japan: the Windows 7 Whopper
In an bizarre cross-marketing campaign, Burger King in Japan has created a special Whopper to celebrate the release of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system, featuring seven quarter-pound beef patties.
Microsoft vs. Google: who’s winning the social media search wars?
Yesterday, both Google and Microsoft announced deals with Twitter to add tweets to their search results. But which company scored the better deal? And which will do a better job? The blogosphere weighs in.
Video: Go inside the Microsoft store
Microsoft has opened the doors of its first retail store, and — surprise! — it’s a whole lot like Apple’s. It has also, curiously, opened a cafe in Paris, which doesn’t actually sell any software or computers.
Not so fast, Microsoft: Google scores a Twitter deal of its own
Just hours after Microsoft announced its big coup in inking a deal with Twitter to include tweets in its search results, Google has announced its done one too. Close, Gates, but no cigar.
Take that, Google: Microsoft teams up with Facebook and Twitter
Microsoft has struck another blow to Google in the search engine wars, inking a deal with Facebook and Twitter to include their content in its Bing search results. You can already try out its Twitter search here.
A history of weird and wonderful Windows ads
Celebrate the release of the latest Windows operating system (and hopefully the death of Vista) with a look back through some of the weirdest ads for each Windows release.
Is Windows 7 worth your time?
The latest version of Microsoft Windows goes on sale today, but after the sheer awfulness of its last effort, Vista, is another costly upgrade worth your while? Gizmodo has a complete guide to everything you need to know.
A tale of two tablets
As Apple and Microsoft race to release their own tablet computers and get a foothold in the emerging e-Reader market, new leaks and rumours reveal what each party will be offering.
leaked Microsoft’s top-secret tablet
Images and details of a new tablet computer by Microsoft have been leaked online. We won’t lie: it’s mostly interesting because Apple is also releasing one, but both could be potential “Kindle killers” in the e-reader market.
BUSTED: Microsoft’s secret war on Google
Microsoft has been employing PR firms to work full-time on “Google-bashing” and hosts secret strategy sessions known as “screw Google” meetings, as part of a broader campaign to discredit the search giant, inside sources tell Daily Finance.
How Google won the book war
Google now hosts a virtual library of millions of entire books, as well as blurbs and excerpts, angering publishers and authors (who aren’t getting royalties), and Microsoft and Amazon (who didn’t think of it first). How did they get away with it? Scan first, ask questions later.
Microsoft get bitter in browser wars
Is it a case of sour grapes for the former king-pins of the internet browsers? A senior Microsoft Internet Explorer executive says she’s “skeptical” of claims by rival Mozilla that its Firefox browser has been downloaded over one billion times, deriding it as “interesting maths”.
Crikey wrap: Yahoo + Microsoft = Google killer?
Yahoo has 20% of the search engine market, Microsoft 8% and Google 65%. So it was perhaps a no-brainer that Microsoft and Yahoo would eventually hook up to defeat their common enemy. Here’s what pundits are saying about the deal.
The search is over: Yahoo gives in to Microsoft
Yahoo has officially given up on trying to best Google in the search engine game, finally reaching a partnership deal with Microsoft after years of negotiations and scrapping their own search engine in favour of the software giant’s new model, Bing.
VIDEO: TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington on Charlie Rose
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington talks to Charlie Rose about Google vs. Microsoft Bing, e-readers, Facebook and his decision to publish those leaked Twitter documents.
