Microsoft is outsourcing its own IT. Not a joke. /via @gruber

Great resources for wide deployments of Office 2008.

On how Microsoft screwed up the best XBLA game in the past year.

Wow.

Microsoft assistants as parody. This is going to be fun.

Nothing like getting your Universal Binary beta out ~26 months after the Intel transition began.

"I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously? Do I really have to explain why this is a bad idea? Again?"

Microsoft threatened to dump the Macintosh version of Office 10 years ago during talks with Apple because the move would “do a great deal of harm” to its rival, according to a memo made public in a recently-settled antitrust case.

Gruber on the Gates interview.

"If you use Office v. X or Office 2004 for Mac OS X, you are familiar with the Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker Toolbar. And as a Mac OS X user you are well aware that you can PDF in any application without the help of a stupid toolbar."

"So, after all this, do I have enough to judge Windows inherently more vulnerable to severe malware than OS X? I do."

"MSN will have exclusive portal rights to syndicate the show's 53 episodes for three years." Somebody has made a terrible mistake.

"Microsoft has reached a deal with Demetri Martin, the comic behind the fake news program's periodic "Trendspotting" feature, to star in a marketing campaign for the upcoming Windows Vista."

"Microsoft Vista feature presentation with the video replaced by a OSX desktop"

Researchers from Microsoft Tuesday showed a prototype software program that lets people use a floor pad from the popular "Dance, Dance Revolution" game to sort e-mails and digital photos by stomping and moving their feet.

"At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office."

"Iwata-san has the heart of a gamer—and my question is, what poor bastard’s chest did he carve it from, and how often do they perform human sacrifices at Nintendo HQ?" - brilliant rant on the state of gaming.

I always wanted Bill Gates cheesecake pictures!

Music thieves, music thieves, music thieves, music thieves...