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Topic: Microsoft 
Chuck Thacker, a technical fellow at Microsoft Research, has won the prestigious A.M. Turing Award -- sometimes called the Nobel of computing -- for a lifetime of contributions to computing. The Association for Computing Machinery recognized Thacker for his work on building Alto, the first modern personal computer, whi... More at digg.com
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Microsoft updates MSN design. online search market share ComScore figures show Bing holds 11.5% of online search market share, Google holds 65.5% in February 2010... More at mixx.com
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Microsoft on its part is not in talks. People feel the software giant has run away from this space and is a big time failure. But wait a min. If you think, MS has actually left the space you are wrong.... More at digg.com
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geek4 sends in an analysis indicating that Microsoft may have the most to lose if hedge-fund operator Elliott buys Novell. (The eWeekEurope piece is based on a longer and geekier writeup by Andy Updegrove on how the mechanics of an unsolicited tender offers can play out in the tech world.) To avoid meltdown or asset-st... More at slashdot.org
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gollum123 tips an article at the NY Times on the progress of the European Windows browser choice screen that we have been discussing recently. "Rivals of Microsoft's market-leading Web browser have attracted a flurry of interest since the company, fulfilling a regulatory requirement, started making it easier for E... More at slashdot.org
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Microsoft ‘takes on Goliath’ with Bing ads mocking Google — Microsoft's ‘Bing and decide’ campaign, starting on television this week, attacks ‘information overload’ of rival's results — Microsoft is to launch a multimillion-... More at techmeme.com
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Whoa. During the keynote presentation at TechEd Middle East in Dubai, Microsoft's Eric Rudder played the same Indiana Jones-ish game on a Windows computer, a Windows Phone 7 phone, and an Xbox 360. Gaming is about to get real ubiquitous.... More at digg.com
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suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget:
"Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch control... More at slashdot.org
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Microsoft has made a small but vitally important step forward in improving the overall tone of the online chat and gaming banter within its Xbox Live community.... More at digg.com
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox — Guess we don't have to wait until MIX to have all our Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered! Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Stu... More at techmeme.com
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It appears that Microsoft is as happy as anyone to see the death of IE6.... More at digg.com
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tekgoblin writes to let us know that Gizmodo has some early shots of the new prototype "Courier" booklet (foldable tablet) on the way from Microsoft. "Courier is a real device, and we've heard that it's in the "late prototype" stage of development. It's not a tablet, it's a booklet. The dual 7-... More at slashdot.org
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As of today, Microsoft has around 75% of its employees are working on cloud-related projects. "A year from now that will be 90 percent," says CEO Steve Ballmer. According to its Wiki page Microsoft currently has 93,000 employees... yikes.... More at digg.com
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We're told Courier will function as a "digital journal," and it's designed to be seriously portable: it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed.... More at digg.com
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superapecommando writes to share that Microsoft appears to be going all-out on research in the coming year, with a great focus on the cloud. Supposedly planning to spend $9.5 billion in R&D, that's $3 billion more than the next closest tech company. "'Especially in light of the tough difficult macroeconomic ti... More at slashdot.org
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