If you walk into any mall today, no matter how bad of a mall it is, you will find an apple store. Seriously I bet you can't even remember the last time you walked into a mall and didn't see an apple store, in fact I dare you to find a mall that doesn't have one of those giant glass shrines to Steve Jobs. Almost a year ago, on October 22, 2009, Microsoft launched its own store that sells... well honestly I can only guess what they sell because there are only 4 of them and they are all out west in places that I...

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Microsoft has their hand in everything don't they? Well just don't touch my storm trooper cookie jar! Yahoo! and Microsoft's multi-year deal kicked off with Yahoo! swapping out their own search engine technology for Microsoft's Bing in the US and Canada on Tuesday. Later this year Yahoo! will transition to Microsoft's adCenter. After a takeover attempt in 2009 that went bad, Microsoft and Yahoo! struck a deal that would let Microsoft power Yahoo!'s searches and in exchange Yahoo! would be Microsoft's exclusive partner for advertising revenue. This is Microsoft's attempt to break into Googles share...

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Regardless of how you feel towards Microsoft as a company you have to admit that Microsoft Office is an important tool that all people need. Now I'm not saying all people need to pay for it, that would just be silly, but in reality even the hardest and most loyal of mac fanboys have a copy of office on their computer. It just makes since to use office. Microsoft has released details about office 2011 for mac. Microsoft has released some videos and they are going to release more as time goes on and we get closer to the launch. So...

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No need to get your eyes checked, you read that right.  Rumors are showing up on various tech blogs that Steve Ballmer will be joining Steve Jobs on stage for part of his keynote presentation at WWDC. Why you ask?  Supposedly, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will allow software developers to write applications for various Apple products such as the iPhone, iPad and OS X. The Visual Studio element is said to take up almost 10 minutes of the speech.  I guess we all know what part nobody will care about already.

Update: Microsoft's official Twitter page has denied Ballmer's attendance at...

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