This interesting story was originally covered in the Men’s Journal, called “How a Geek Grills a Burger,” casts the former Microsoft chief technology officer as a “mad scientist” living out a “nerd fantasy.” He has a bestselling six-volume cookbook, he studied astrophysics with Stephen Hawking, and his giant Tyrannasaurus rex skeleton has turned his waterfront home [...]
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Rumor: Apple and Microsoft are discussing dropping Google as the default search engine
January 20th, 2010
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Looks like the iPhone wont have Google as the default search engine sometime in the future. Macrumors shared this interesting rumor – BusinessWeek sources have reported that Apple and Microsoft are currently in negotiations to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Microsoft’s Bing.com. The talks have reportedly been underway for [...]
Microsoft Demos Streaming Video Powered By Silverlight On iPhone
November 28th, 2009
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Looks like Microsoft is trying hard to woo Apple. A few days back Microsoft demonstrated a streaming video on iPhone using their Silverlight technology. Basically Silverlight users server side tanscoding and HTML5 video tag to display Silverlight content in a native H.264/MPEG-2 v8 format, which is recognized by the iPhone’s Quicktime player. And guess what [...]
Microsoft Makes Fun of Apple in this Humor Video
October 22nd, 2009
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Looks like Microsoft is going the Verizon way too, try to gain popularity by ridiculing the best smartphone in the market.Verizon had launched an ad campaign last week called ‘Everything iPhone Doesn’t, Droid Does’ which aimed at promoting soon to be launched Motorola Droid as a better alternative to iPhone. Check this video: And just [...]
Video: Microsoft CEO Ballmer Laughing At iPhone’s Potential
July 15th, 2009
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You got to check this again. Covered by CNBC in January 2007, I am sure quite a few would have watched this video. But there is no harm in watching this video again, which proves how shortsighted Microsoft has been all these years. – “ Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone on CNBC-TV. ” [...]
Microsoft is now providing an incentive to purchase iPhone 3GS
June 22nd, 2009
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Isnt this cool? Just a few months back Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said “there’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” And now Microsoft is incentivizing iPhone 3G S in a bid to promote its new search app Bing. Found this news on Technologizer which discovered this promotion by [...]
iPhone is just a Buzz – Ballmer
February 25th, 2009
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A few years back, Microsoft felt that iPods were just a buzz and then they realized that iPods seem to have revolutionized the music industry. This made Microsoft launch Zune. Zune came and almost vanished in no time. And now Steve Ballmer feels that iPhone is just a Buzz. With iPods, Apple revolutionized the Music [...]
