I woke up to this today:

 

 

As we gear up to bring you the New Xbox Experience, Xbox LIVE and the Xbox LIVE page on Xbox.com will be down for 24 hours, beginning on September 29, 2008 from 12:01 AM PST until 11:59 PM PST. During this time you will not be able to access Xbox LIVE.

 

 

Xbox Live is down for an entire 24-hour period today so Mi...

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I'm not really sure what cost $300 million about this ad campaign. Let's do the math:

 

Seinfeld's salary: $10 million, although that's rather steep considering he's done absolutely nothing for the last decade.

 

Production: $500,000, have you seen these ads? What about them possibly costs money to shoot? Did they have to rent the entire city th...

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Apple has been tearing Microsoft a new one for a very long time now with their uber-trendy John Hodgeman/Justin Long Mac vs. PC ads. And as annoying as that format became, even the new ones are still more entertaining than 98% of commercials you'll see out there ("Head On! Apply directly to the forehead!").

 

So when it was announced that Micros...

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Oh yes, it's true: U-Dub does put the "dub" in "www". The AeA, the American Electronics Association, has given Seattle a gold star for its tech-nastiness. The city led the nation in net new tech jobs in 2006, and these jobs make it that much better for University of Washington grads, who have access to the Washington offices of Microsoft, Amazon...

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1. Bill Gates
Net Worth - $59 billion

There's no doubt that Bill Gates is a genius. He built Microsoft with a mission and a dream. Gates left the ivy strewn walls of Harvard to start the Microsoft we know, and accuse of being a corporate monopoly, today. He never finished his degree, but he received an honorary degree, in 2007, from Harvard, and...

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Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the world, is officially stepping down from his position of power today. Going forward, he will devote his time and attention on charity work. He won’t sever his ties with Microsoft completely though. He will remain the company’s non-executive chairman.

 

One of Bill Gates’ ch...

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Bill Gates scored a 1590 on his SATs and enrolled as an undecided undergrad at Harvard, only to take an unfinished "leave of absence" two years later to start the tiny software company that ultimately became Microsoft. Almost thirty years later, Microsoft actually tried to recruit Mark Zuckerberg before he went off to Harvard to, oh-so-ironicall

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