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You've probably heard all about Google's continuting quest to take over the entire internet galaxy by launching of their own free internet browser, Chrome, since noon yesterday. They have a cute little comic to go along with it, typical of the "candy, beanbags" and "kindergarten esthetic of the Googleplex" that their marketers and admen love so much. Oh, you guys!

The reviews are in, and they're pretty good. It's fast, anyway. But Walter Mossberg at The Wall Street Journal's Personal Technology blog complains that it's "rough around the edges and lacks some common browser features Google plans to add later. These omissions include a way to manage bookmarks, a command for emailing links and pages directly from the browser, and even a progress bar to show how much of a Web page has loaded."  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/google-takes-jab-comics-microsoft-chrome-browser#comments Arts & Culture Google Microsoft Corporation Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:12:39 -0400 Gillian Reagan 74431 at http://www.observer.com Microsoft Outlook Keels Over Dead, Do-Gooder Gates Gets 10% Dispensation http://www.observer.com/node/32181 ERICA: "OH MY GAAAAAWWWWDDDD!"

Yes, I was screaming at the top of my lungs, but "Oh My God," was all I could get out as I sat there staring at my computer screen blankly. My email program crashed. It had a heart-attack, followed by a stroke and then capped it off with an aneurism resulting in five years of saved emails, all in carefully notated folders, disappearing forever. Gone. Done.  read more »

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Please, please, please, spare me your lectures on "backing things up." I get it. I was dumb not to have saved everything somewhere, but excuse the hell out of me. I think it's a little dumber that Microsoft freakin' Outlook, without warning, becomes corrupted and dies when the storage limit goes above 2 gigs. No little pleasing tone comes up with a message reading: "please free up some space in your folders or your storage limit will be met" --just full on deadness. I called Apple, I called every computer expert friend I have (and shout outs to anyone else out there who this has happened to, because I know there are a lot of you!), but I'm just undeniably screwed. ]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32181#comments Apple Inc. Bill Gates Microsoft Corporation Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:40:45 -0400 Observer Staff 32181 at http://www.observer.com Government Secrecy Inspires Conspiracy, Paranoia and Rumors. http://www.observer.com/node/38410 Other than a possible hiccup in the volume of telephone sex, did the revelation that the National Se  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/38410#comments Politics Dick Cheney John F. Kennedy Microsoft Corporation National Security Agency Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:00:00 -0500 Nicholas von Hoffman 38410 at http://www.observer.com Saddest New York Times "Business" Section Paragraph Ever http://www.observer.com/node/32676
"The possibility of a deal by Microsoft and AOL was first reported by The New York Post."

(Microsoft Said to Be in Talks on Forming Link to AOL, by Saul Hansell, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2005.)

To spare readers the sorrow, the Times held off on saying it till the eighteenth paragraph. —Matt Haber
]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32676#comments Media AOL LLC Microsoft Corporation NYP Holdings Inc. Saul Hansell Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:58:00 -0400 Observer Staff 32676 at http://www.observer.com Get Rich Quick? http://www.observer.com/node/33825
Despite all the bubble-talk, diving into real estate might not be the best move for would-be brokers,according to Slate. While New York Magazine warned a few weeks ago about broker glut, The Times reported this weekend about the phenomenon on Long Island where you can get certified in only a week (and without too strenuous requirements). "I don't understand what the teacher says," Ms. Franco said of the English-speaking real estate course instructor. "Nothing, nothing, nothing." Good news: she passed.

Today, The Times David Dunlap reports on the Ground Zero memorial that, like the forgotten middle child, has been neglected with heated debates over the Drawing Center and International Freedom Center.

Billionaire Ron Perelman might have a massive new neighbor, a 60-foot-wide mansion, combined from two buildings, according to Page Six. The price: $40 million.

With sleek Apple stores popping up all over, Microsoft wants to get in on the retail game. According to The Post, the are eyeing space on Times Square.

-Michael Calderone
]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33825#comments Real Estate David Dunlap International Freedom Center Long Island Microsoft Corporation Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:07:00 -0400 Observer Staff 33825 at http://www.observer.com Being Bill Gates' Best Friend (And Running Microsoft, Too) http://www.observer.com/node/46419 Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft , by Fredric Alan Maxwell.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46419#comments Real Estate Boy Ballmer Frederic Alan Maxwell Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Stephen Metcalf 46419 at http://www.observer.com Is Greenspan's Next Cut … Alan Greenspan? http://www.observer.com/node/44863 Another Bush in the White House, another flagging stock market, another stumbling economy.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44863#comments Real Estate Alan Greenspan Microsoft Corporation The White House Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Landon Thomas Jr. 44863 at http://www.observer.com Calling All Czars: Ersatz Romanov Paul Allen Summons Subjects to Throwback Party http://www.observer.com/node/44783 Did you get your invitation?  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44783#comments Real Estate Hollywood Microsoft Corporation Seattle Seahawks St. Petersburg Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Landon Thomas Jr 44783 at http://www.observer.com Golf's Dr. Bob Tees Up Bogeymen as Tiger Soars http://www.observer.com/node/44566 Last Sunday, on the fifth hole of the final round of the Memorial Tournament, Tiger Woods hit a shot  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44566#comments Sports Microsoft Corporation New York Mets Texas Rangers TiVo Inc. Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Michael M. Thomas 44566 at http://www.observer.com The Over-Improvement of Everything http://www.observer.com/node/44270 By nature, I am not anti-technology. As a child, my favoritetoy was a screwdriver.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44270#comments BMW 3 Series Ford Explorer Microsoft Corporation Palm Pilot Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Bruce Feirstein 44270 at http://www.observer.com