We're moving from the PC age to the Internet age, and Microsoft is simply not a force on the Internet.
Microsoft clearly sees customer concerns about privacy in the digital age as a business opportunity: Give consumers something they say they want in the form of greater sense of protection as they navigate the online world.
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It has a decent shot at displacing Microsoft as the next great near-monopoly of the information age.
Even though people who own gaming consoles are not representative of the general population (and many are not even of voting age), David Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft Research, geeks out over the possibility of using new weighting and de-biasing methods to extract more meaningful insights from his sample.
Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, made the Rich List at age 30.
The acquisition, for which Facebook and Microsoft did not provide a price, was reported yesterday by Advertising Age as likely to happen today.
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That's likely due to Xbox Music being exclusive to Windows 8 devices (which includes the Xbox 360, despite its age, and Windows Phone 8) -- Microsoft promises a continued focus on Xbox Music going forward, while Zune support drops out.
Tykes will find plenty to keep them busy too, with Goosebumps' Attack of the Mutant, and Microsoft's Creative Writer 2, Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs, Magic School Bus Explores the Rain Forest, Plus for Kids, and 3D Movie Maker.
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That's why some of the tech age's hottest employers--like Facebook, Google and Microsoft--aren't at the top.
Microsoft today is a disparate collection of businesses, all led by guys my age and even older.
"Bruce Shelly, codesigner of Sid Meier's Civilization , is involved in this project, so expect remarkable things from Age of Empires later this year, " babbles a sycophantic quote from Canada Computes on Microsoft's web page.
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