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6 Entertaining Games Made Entirely in Microsoft Excel
“Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool. But it’s not just for spreadsheets anymore. Believe it or not, you can turn the data-analyzing, number-cruncher into one unbelievably cool game. The Microsoft software has a few secrets up its sleeve; many people have managed to design new games or recreate classics like Monopoly […]
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How Apple and Microsoft intend to destroy Android
“Groklaw nails it: “In other words, [Apple and Microsoft] want to disarm the companies that got there first, built the standards, and created the field, while the come-later types clean up on patents on things like slide to unlock or a tablet shap…
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Are Microsoft and Nokia closet patent trolls? Let the EC decide. ??? Tech News and Analysis
Updated: Google has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and Nokia and is also tattling on the companies with U.S. regulators, accusing them of patent-troll-like behavior, according to the Wall Street Journal…
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The story of how Bill Gates discovered (& backed) a battery startup ??? Cleantech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “Bill Gates started taking a class from Liquid Metal Battery founder and MIT Professor Don Sadoway via MIT???s online open-course program. Gates took Sadoway???s 34-lecture series on batteries and contacted Sadoway by email to meet with…
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Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft’s Disputed Android Patents
Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft’s Disputed Android Patents”B&N is really blowing the lid off of what Microsoft is doing and how they are forcing money from Android. It has accused Microsoft of requiring overly restricted NDA agreements from those e…
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THE TWEAKER
“Gates looked back at Jobs calmly. Everyone knew where the windows and the icons came from. ???Well, Steve,??? Gates responded. ???I think there???s more than one way of looking at it. I think it???s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and …
