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Apple's 'PC' grilled about Microsoft
John Hodgman, who plays the PC in Apple's commercials, was quizzed about Microsoft during the "Not My Job" segment of NPR's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me" quiz show this weekend. "Wait, Wait" fan Ben Romano of the Seattle Times has a recap here.
Microsoft says security holes have declined in Windows but warns that vulnerabilities in software applications have become a bigger threat, according to the New York Times. Also see coverage by CNet News.com. Here's the full report.
The new "Superbar" taskbar in Windows 7 is hidden inside the build of the operating system given to Professional Developers Conference attendees last week, reports Rafael Rivera of Within Windows.
Microsoft has parked an "I'm a PC" promotional booth outside an Apple store in Birmingham, England, Apple Insider reports. (With photo.)
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Quoted: "And the thing that I think that's most interesting is, I don't even have to do the hard selling anymore, now I have Microsoft telling people that the future of the operating system is delivered in the cloud, not on their desktop. How fantastic is that for us?" -- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, talking with the San Francisco Chronicle about his company's cloud computing initiatives.
Microsoft's "Geek in Disguise" blogger Steve Clayton: "What I believe you actually saw last week at the PDC, if you looked carefully, was Microsoft 3.0." Read the full post here.
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Todd Bishop is co-founder and managing editor of TechFlash. He has covered Microsoft and the technology industry for more than five years, most recently as a daily newspaper reporter and blogger based in Seattle.
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