Quoted: These new technologies are perfect metaphors for what's happening in the industry, Mike Elgan says. In both cases, Windows is asleep while Microsoft's own partners give users what they really want.

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Quoted: Windows XP: Dead or just resting?

Quoted: Microsoft gets more crap than any other company in tech That's partly because it's given us garbage like Clippy Microsoft

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Quoted: Our tests show that Windows Vista and Office 2007 not only smash Redmond’s previous records for weight gain, but given the same hardware diet, run at less than half the speed of generation XP

Quoted: Company's been considering ways to move its software business into "the cloud." Leaks suggest that Microsoft's getting close to an announcement.