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Microsoft Goes From Ad Buyer To Seller
The technology empire prepares to take on Yahoo and Google in the search advertising market.
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Oracle Could Certify Apps On IBM, Microsoft
Not many companies have databases that could stand up to Oracle's testing processes, Larry Ellison told OpenWorld attendees.
Microsoft Turns 30
The ubiquitous maker of Windows and Office has been around since the Ford Administration.
High-Performance Graphics in Flash 8
Early this year, I was inspired to create an experimental piece called varicose-g. Varicose-g uses a simple branching algorithm paired with the drawing API to draw an organic vein network. In Flash Player 7, the experiment ran slowly, and I was forced to dynamically clear older veins to reduce the graphic compositing overhead. This limited the generative quality of the experiment and reduced the complexity…
Microsoft Is Done For. Google Owns the World… You Believe That?
I just got back from Microsoft's Company Meeting. My first "real" meeting. This is the one they hold in a local baseball stadium with 10s of thousands of employees.
Insight Into Chinese Internet
The battle for the internet in the coming years will be in China. With nearly 100 million users already and showing nothing by growth, many companies with business on the net are building models for China. In a recent interview, Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley provided some insight into where that market is going.
