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Microsoft buys Skype for over £5bn

May 11, 2011
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Skype, the VoIP company that famously claimed to work anywhere… even behind firewalls… has been snapped up by Microsoft for a cool $8.3bn.

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Montage – a new type of personal start page?

December 15, 2010
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Montage, by Microsoft, allows you to create attractive magazine-style pages that draw information together from many different sources.

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My poor wallet

June 16, 2010
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Microsoft and Apple unveil new technology that makes me wish my wallet were a little larger.

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Microsoft Invades Firefox!

June 4, 2009

John reports on Microsoft’s automatically installed FireFox extension.

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No Internet after Update?

July 10, 2008

John is a Salvation Army Corps Officer who likes computers, Radiohead and F1. He lives and works with his wife Marta in Gainsborough UK, and blogs at johnager.co.uk and johnager.org Last evening I lost internet connectivity on my work computer and I just put it down to a local problem, thinking it would probably be [...]

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