Stories tagged with “Microsoft”
NEWS FLASH
Microsoft, Nike, And Others Endorse Washington Marriage Equality |
In a blog post this morning, Microsoft officially endorsed a proposed marriage equality bill in Washington state, where the company’s headquarters is based. In addition to recognizing how marriage would benefit its gay employees, Microsoft also emphasized that marriage equality is good for business because it will help them “continue to compete for talent” and “make our state and our economy stronger.” Microsoft joined five other Washington-based companies — Concur, Group Health, Nike, RealNetworks, and Vulcan Inc. — in sending a letter to legislators indicating their support.
Update
In addition to these companies’ endorsement, the marriage equality bill also gained the support today of Sen. Jim Kastama (D). Kastama’s is the 24th supportive vote in the state Senate, meaning the bill only needs one more yes vote to pass.
NEWS FLASH
Microsoft Funds Koch’s Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference |
Microsoft Corporation, which argues that climate pollution requires a “comprehensive and global response,” is sponsoring the Koch brothers’ Tea Party convention taking place in Washington, DC. Microsoft is a “gold sponsor” of the Americans For Prosperity Foundation’s fifth annual Defending The American Dream Summit, cheek and jowl with top climate denial front groups like the Heartland Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Speakers at the conference include climate deniers Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), Ken Cuccinelli, Ann McElhinney, Chris Horner, Myron Ebell, and Carly Fiorina. Their prominent involvement was captured in a photograph by Slate.com reporter Dave Wiegel.
NEWS FLASH
Growing Petition Calls On Apple To Abandon ‘Christian Values Network’ |
Over 1,300 people have signed a Change.org petition asking Apple to remove its online store from the “Christian Values Network.” Anti-LGBT organizations like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council use the network as a fundraising tool. Microsoft removed their store from CVN last week in response to a similar petition.
Yglesias
By Matthew Yglesias on Jan 2, 2009 at 11:20 am
A good friend of mine with general wise views on most matters has, in recent months, started taking the strongly counterintuitive line that those of us with iPods — a group that includes himself — are suckers and that the Zune is actually a better product. Except apparently nobody told Microsoft about leap years:
Owners of 30-gigabyte Zunes began flooding Zune-related Web sites with complaints early Wednesday morning. They said their players had suddenly stopped working, displaying only a frozen start-up screen.
After spending much of the day digging into the problem, Microsoft said that it had traced it to a software bug “related to the way the device handles a leap year.” Apparently the Zune was expecting 2008 to have 365 days, not 366.
Sloppy! I’ll say nothing more about my love of Apple products until Steve Jobs comes through with the product placement deal I deserve. Consider this post a good venue for a general Mac versus PC flame war — gotta get traffic back up.
Yglesias
By Matthew Yglesias on Sep 25, 2008 at 11:13 am
I was just looking up some of my web stats and saw that while a plurality of my readers use Firefox, a staggering 40 percent are using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Don’t use Internet Explorer. Don’t let your friends use Internet Explorer. Some Mac users including, at times, myself, have found Safari to be a good option. Other Mac users, including my current self, prefer Firefox. All Windows users should be using Firefox. It’s possible that Google’s new browser will reach a point where it’s better than Firefox. But Internet Explorer is not better. Don’t use it.
