A judge recently ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of their flagship products. Microsoft is guilty of infringing i4i’s patent on XML software.
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Sorry for the picture quality, it was taken on my camera phone.

Anyways, these babies retail for about $70.00 bucks but I got them for around $42.00 thanks to  something called Bing Cashback!

Bing is Microsoft’s new search engine, and they’re basically paying you to use it!  This is a list of all the stores that qualify for Bing Cashback and the percentage that you will receive back when buying stuff from them.

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PS3 Slim!

• $300
• 120 GB HDD
• 32% smaller
• 36% lighter
• Definitely not a 100% sexier
• Comes out first week of September

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As Beta 2 for Internet Explorer nears its release, Microsoft is seeking more testers for its product. (Currently, the only way to directly submit a bug report is to be a part of the Technical Beta program.) Beta 1 was focused more on developers, and Beta 2 will be concentrating more on the end user. This might include GUI enhancements, stability fixes, and other similar revisions.

If you’re looking to participate, send an email to IESO@microsoft.com and “tell [them] a little about yourself including why you’d be a great beta tester.”

via the IEBlog

The third and most likely final service pack for Windows XP is now being distributed by Microsoft via Automatic Updates for users everywhere. More than two months after it had arrived on Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center, users who have AU set to automatically downloading and installing updates should now see it.

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Google has struck again, this time through a deal with the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education in Australia in which 1.3 million new users would switch to its free email product.

Through the deal, the students and teachers will receive customised Gmail accounts. Although Gmail is free, the costs lie in the tight security and integration with existing systems that Google would provide.

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Welcome to the “Mojave Experiment.” What do people think of Windows Vista when they don’t know it’s Windows Vista? We disguised Windows Vista as codename “Mojave,” the “next Microsoft OS,” so regular people who’ve never used Windows Vista could see what it can do – and decide for themselves. Now decide for yourself.

Microsoft gathered some ordinary folks, asked them about their views of Vista, and then let them try out what they called “Mojave,” an identical version of Vista.

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