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Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich-media application plugin, saw a similarity between the plugin’s name and those iridescent glass rocks used to fill silk flower vases in restaurants and offices. I guess they thought this was a good thing, because Microsoft apparently gave them out at the SXSW music festival a few years ago to promote Silverlight. I’ve [...]
We all know about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal which was confirmed recently. Yahoo gave up it’s effort to oust Google in the search field by agreeing to use Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Microsoft will allow Yahoo’s sales reps to sell search ads on Bing and Yahoo sites and Microsoft agreed to let Yahoo keep 88% of [...]
Microsoft now gives you the chance to win free Microsoft merchandise, custom gadgets, and gaming software through points2shop.com. Once you visit this site and sign up for free, you become elible to earn Microsoft points and redeem them at Amazon.com to choose your prizes. In order to earn the points, you have to compete against [...]
This custom t-shirt is the closest we’ll get to see Yahoo and Microsoft making a business deal, at least for now. The shirt is made with combined ring-spun cotton, which gets softer with each washing. You can find this logo on promotional hats as well, and other products will likely come out to play at [...]
Last year, Microsoft handed out these promotional pocket cards to students participating at its Imagine Cup competition. The competition is sponsored by Microsoft every year and encourages students to compete in an array of computer technology categories such as software design and game development. The card has a small piece of plantable seed paper at [...]
On June 8th, Microsoft ran an all-day live infomercial promoting its new search engine called Bing. The event aired on Hulu, and was hosted by G4’s Olivia Munn and Saturday Night Live’s Jason Sudeikis. Aside from explaining the benefits of Bing for hours on end, the infomercial also featured an array of guest celebrity appearances and comedy sketches. Just [...]
(Via: Search Engine Watch Blog)
Microsoft will re-launch Windows Live Search under the new brand name of Kumo, which means “cloud” or “spider” in Japanese (somewhat of a zen-like translation). So is Microsoft going to have a tech launch party for this re-branding venture because they are going to have to create some sort of [...]