MetaFilter posts tagged with microsoft and ms

Gimme 5!

Afroblanco — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:24:28 -0800

No PC should be without MS DOS 5 - apparently because it has mouse support, a full-screen editor, and an utterly inexplicable music video. Guaranteed to save you at least 45K!!! of RAM, that is. No doubt produced by the same people who brought us W-W-W-Windows 386.

The future of MS, Apple, and Google

Tlogmer — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:13:53 -0800

The future of Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

Gates talks with an editor at Scientific American

sourbrew — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:01:57 -0800

Gates talks about our future. Bill gates shows a side that is rarely seen by computer users. Love him or h a t e h i m, I just want to know why he doesn't want me to have one of these some time in the next 15 years too.

Microsoft does something not terribly evil

Tlogmer — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:02:50 -0800

Scientific American on Microsoft's new, gigantic attempt at a Palo Alto.

judith — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:02:50 -0800

While MS-bashing is often too easy, this statement about recent security holes seemed especially astounding: "Outlook Express ships with every Windows system, or rather as part of IE, so it's on every system. But unless it is configured to receive mail, you are not at risk," said Scott Culp, manager for Microsoft security response. Interesting. Unless it is configured to receive mail, like, you know, an email program.

jragon — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:37:16 -0800

MS : Linux is the threat. According to the Register, Linux has been upgraded from a threat to the threat.

I'm waiting for Ballmer to call Linux the Evil Empire.

moz — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 13:49:56 -0800

Microsoft bans use of Open Source with its wireless internet tools. Will this be a huge PR blunder, or will people accept MS' hardline stance against this so-called "potentially viral" software?

dwivian — Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:02:17 -0800

Microsoft to stay one company? Appeals say Microsoft to stay a behemoth. I think Clippy is here to stay.

owillis — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:40:54 -0800

Hailstorm! "Web Services" like Ebay on your im app, email, phone, whatever. Is the era of the "universal login" finally here? (Microsoft or not).

cCranium — Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:27:03 -0800

Microsoft has never made a good product , and is therefore a Bad Company, says baylink.

owillis — Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:07:55 -0800

Microsoft Reader is out. Did MS finally make a decent product, to really spark ebooks. Or is it more of the same?

skallas — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:39:37 -0800

An ends-justify-the-means pro MS argument that completely ignores the merits of fair business and what the industry could have been without a juggernaut like MS.

PaperCut — Sat, 20 May 2000 18:21:54 -0800

New Microsoft Bug Found This one's pretty serious. Because it affects the whole world.

mathowie — Tue, 07 Mar 2000 20:55:34 -0800

Oh. My. God. Microsoft continues to amaze me and all its users with increasingly alarming security vulnerabilities. The Office 2000 Clipart Gallery (clipart for chrissakes!!!) can compromise any Win95/98/NT/2000 machine with something as simple as an email message read in Outlook. Here's Microsoft's take on it, and their patch.

mathowie — Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:31:42 -0800

Microsoft recently put up their own page on the history of Microsoft.com. They were even cool enough to include screenshots and approximate traffic loads for each iteration of the site.