In addition to being un-cool, Microsoft bears the burden of this stock chart.

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Ask the counter question: Should a judge on an august English bench be empowered to deem a product legally un-cool enough?

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So, yes, Microsoft is an un-cool tech company that turns out huge profits and has good, if not spectacular, growth prospects.

FORBES: Microsoft Isn't As Cool As Apple But It's A Good Buy

At this pace, it seems to hard to believe that a global deal on emissions targets (reconciling new emitters with older ones) can be reached next December at a meeting in Copenhagen, seen as a make-or-break time for UN efforts to cool the world.

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