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- Open source protester crashes Bill Gates speech at Chinese university
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Gates, who is very popular on Chinese campuses, had just finished a speech at Beijing University and was handing out prizes to students when a man walked on stage and unveiled a banner with "free software, open source" written on it. via Todd Bishop
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- Dell Users Demand and Get Windows XP Back!
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  But on Dell's IdeaStorm Web site, where visitors can post suggestions for the company and vote on the ones they think are important, a plea titled "Don't eliminate XP just yet" racked up more than 10,700 votes. "We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings," Dell responded in a Web posting Thursday.
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- Google Expands Office Software
  Posted by Jeff from SFGate.com
  The two companies already offer e-mail, word processing and spreadsheet programs, and other tools. Google's new presentation software will compete against Microsoft's ubiquitous PowerPoint software that's part of its popular Office suite. "This completes what most users of PCs consider the Office suite," said John Battelle
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- Microsoft Adds Daily Show, Colbert Report To Xbox Live Store
  Posted by Jeff from Gamasutra
  Microsoft has announced that starting today it will release episodes of Comedy Central's politically charged news programs The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report over the Xbox Live marketplace.
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- Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Google outbids Microsoft: Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.
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- Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowded
  Posted by Jeff from ZDNet
  Before those Washington State legislators fall over themselves to give more tax breaks to Microsoft, they should probably read up on the software giant's possibly declining fortunes. When Goldman Sachs takes you off their favorites list, there is a problem. "It's over after Vista," says one analyst.
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- Microsoft Opposing California Open Doc Bill
  Posted by Jeff from Slashdot
  "Microsoft is going through its email and phone lists asking people to support their opposition to California A.B. 1668 — 'Open Document Format, Open Source' — by writing to the California Assemblymen involved in this bill (contact info in the link). Apparently they fear that California will join Massachusetts in wanting documents based on open standards in their government. Let's see if this community can raise as much support for the California ODF bill as Microsoft can raise opposition."
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Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid

This Yahoo bid was stupid from the beginning. Microsoft was going to spend all its cash to chase Google in the advertising business? Huh? Ballmer clearly backed down when he didn’t want to ante up. I suspect the Microsoft board had second thoughts as well.

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7:14 pm 5/03/08
Jeff comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

You are misunderstanding – this is about Washington B & O taxes on corporations, not income taxes.

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9:31 pm 4/02/08
aknight comments on:
Blodget: MicroHoo ‘is gonna be a disaster’

At best a year to get the deal closed, two for integration. Multiple groups on each side working on similar projects… Sounds like a great idea and a nightmare to integrate.

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6:30 pm 2/14/08
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High-tech giants seeking massive tax break

Check out my rebuttal to Top Reader Excuses for Microsoft’s Tax Avoidance here.

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11:06 am 2/12/08
edseccocpa comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

Your concern that Microsoft is avoiding paying income taxes to the State of Washington is based on the erroneous belief that there is an income tax in Washington. Please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax

I really don’t know what you’re belly aching about.

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9:53 am 2/04/08
Jwgardner comments on:
Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism

I honestly never would have predicted such thinking from BG several years ago.

What I want to see now is the staunch capitalist’s response to such thinking. Maybe the Economist will have something (dismissive and venomous, as usual) to say about it…

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11:56 am 1/24/08
Shemuses comments on:
Xbox issues to cost Microsoft $1 billion-plus

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