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December 2008: Firefox, Safari, and Chrome grab more users
In the waning days of '08, Internet Explorer's market share dropped by just 1.5 percent, while Firefox jumped by 0.56 percent, and Safari gained 0.80 percent. After months of fighting for fourth place, Chrome picked up 0.21 percent, finally pulling ahead of an immobile Opera.
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Warning: WMP12 beta could corrupt your MP3s
In the leaked Windows 7 build 7000, Windows Media Player 12 may corrupt your MP3s under specific circumstances. Microsoft has confirmed the problem and is working on a fix.
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Microsoft backed Obama during the 2008 elections
During the 2008 elections, 71.4 percent of Microsoft's contributions went to Democrats, and 28.4 percent went to Republicans.
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Ballmer to kick off CES 2009 this Wednesday
This year's CES preshow keynote address doesn't come from Bill Gates, but Steve Ballmer. Here's what to expect and how to watch it.
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Windows 7 build 7000 outperforms Vista and XP
According to 23 tests comparing the 32-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows XP SP3, the upcoming version of Windows will be more efficient.
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China jails top Microsoft software counterfeiters
Microsoft is applauding China's recent sentencing of 11 ringleaders of what the software giant is calling "the world's largest software counterfeiting syndicate."
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Rumor: Microsoft to lay off 17% of staff on January 15, 2009
January 15, 2009 is apparently the day Microsoft will be laying off 17 percent of its workforce. It's quite hard to believe such a huge number of people will lose their job (15,000), so we're labeling this as a rumor, for now.
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One Microsoft Way's top 10 of 2008
This year on One Microsoft Way, we covered Windows 7, Zune, Microsoft Answers, Mojave, Windows Live Messenger, and of course, Bill Gates.
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Support for IE8 prereleases extended again, final in April?
Microsoft has changed the support cutoff date for pre-release versions of IE8 from December 31, 2008, to March 31. We can safely assume that the final version of IE8 won't be ready until March/April.
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Microsoft's 2008 donations: almost $500 million
Microsoft gave away nearly half a billion dollars last year in gifts and matching contributions. Top brass have also maxed out their donations to the Obama inauguration.
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