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Last week we hooked up with Fark.com to run a photoshop contest: "What are we likely to see as the result of the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover?" Here are our favorite submissions. Image above: shilrobot

You can't know everything. And in a place like Microsoft, chances are you'll need to get a fact or an opinion on something that you know very little about. Knowing who to ask is an important survival skill around here....

When I imagine surly construction workers like my uncle hauling tools and concrete and porta potties around, trucks loaded up with schnazzy gadgetry is not what I picture. But that's exactly what Ford (and Microsoft!) see. Their "Work Solutions" concept[...]

We heard your feedback loud and clear, besides a VPC with software we needed to provide you with better tools so you can easier customize the VPC for demo scenarios. We did just that! We created a Demo Tool that helps you with that. An easy to use tool[...]

Some take umbrage with our report suggesting buying Yahoo forces Microsoft to sell MSNBC.com to NBC. These sources claim MSNBC.com earns more money than Yahoo News and they'd be surprised to see Microsoft divest itself from such a profitable property.[...]

Enterprise IT is boring ... except when it gets lowdown and dirty. LIke it's starting to between Microsoft and VMware. Last week, Microsoft announced a "vision and strategy to accelerate virtualization adoption." We could relay the details, but they're[...]

Copyright © 2008 Wayne Schulz. Visit the original article at http://www.geardiary.com/2008/01/26/is-google-apps-a-microsoft-office-killer/.I started experimenting with Google Apps for a story I wrote about a month ago. For those who have never used Google[...]

Take that, Apple Microsoft reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street's already lofty expectations, as sales of PCs and Xboxes soared. The company also forecast future results that met or beat analysts' outlook.…