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Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The New York Times
Calling all would-be Judd Apatows, Martin Scorseses and Coen brothers. Your cinematic ambitions may be supported by an unlikely patron, based not in Hollywood but more than a thousand miles to the north in Redmond, Wash.
That geographic clue gives away the sponsor: the Microsoft Corporation, which is underwriting an online movie-making contest [...]

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Tags: advertising · filmmaking

They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know. - The New York Times
ONE year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to “upgrade”?
Microsoft says high prices have been the deterrent. Last month, the company trimmed prices on retail packages of Vista, trying to entice consumers to overcome their [...]

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Tags: software