Go: new open source programming language from Google
arstechnica.com 10 days ago — Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn't want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faster compilation? That's one of the reasons why there are so many ...

Microsoft shows off multi-touch mice
techreport.com 10/7/2009 — After having invaded our phones and notebook touchpads, multi-touch technology may soon make its way into our mice, too. During a tour of Microsoft's labs, the folks at CrunchGear got live demonstrations of several multi-touch mouse prototypes from ...

Microsoft takes on Google as Office moves to Web | Technology
reuters.com 7/13/2009 — Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will release three versions of its dominant Office software that users can access over the Web, catching up with products that rival Google Inc launched three years ago. The news helped send shares in the ...

Microsoft Bing review
itreviewed.net 6/19/2009 — Today’s search engines - believe it or not there are others besides Google - do a great job of helping us navigate the Web and find information, but Microsoft reckons they don’t do a very good job of enabling us to ‘use’ the information we find. ...

Microsoft BING scares me
johanlouwers.blogspot.com 5/30/2009 — BING is the name of the new search engine from Microsoft. However, even do mainstream media is referring to it as the new search engine on the block and the attempt of Microsoft to battle Google, it is not a search engine. Even Microsoft itself is stating that it is not a search engine.Microsoft ...

Microsoft's Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week)
blogs.zdnet.com 9/10/2009 — If the Tweets coming out of Microsoft's annual company meeting are on point, the 2.0 release of Microsoft's Bing search engine is coming this fall, and possibly as soon as next week.

The 50 Best (and Worst) Moments in Windows History
maximumpc.com 10/20/2009 — In just a few days, Microsoft at long last will officially release Windows 7 to an eager public ready to put the Vista saga behind them. It's a been a long wait, particularly for those who opted to stick with XP until something better came ...

To Bing or not to Bing? Hands on with Microsoft's new search
arstechnica.com 5/28/2009 — Microsoft has finally taken the wraps off the new branding for Live Search, and the final name is Bing. We've known since March that a rebrand was coming, and we've been saying for even longer that Live Search is in dire need of one ...

The Go Programming Language
golang.org 9 days ago — Go is simple package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n") } fast Go compilers produce fast code fast. Typical builds take a fraction of a second yet the resulting programs run nearly as quickly as comparable C or C++ code. safe ...

Remember that Awful Bing Jingle? These Kids Will. Forever.
maximumpc.com 21 days ago — If there were an office pool on how low can Microsoft stoop, the winner would be the guy who picked this. Microsoft was able to get students at the Keith Valley Middle School in Pennsylvania to perform the Bing jingle-- on camera . The horror! MG Siegler, over at TechCruch , rates the Bing ...