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Old 29th December, 2008, 12:29 PM
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Top 10 Microsoft Stories Of 2008

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Monday, 29 December 2008
Having bid farewell to Bill Gates, Microsoft tempered its appetite for Yahoo, tweaked Vista, leapt into cloud computing, allowed a peek at Windows 7, and warmed up to open source.

By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
December 15, 2008 04:00 AM

In any era of change, there are bound to be many stories underscoring tension and difficulty as well as others pointing the way forward and laying out the new vision. 2008 was full of these for Microsoft The company is striving to find its footing as it shifts from long dominance in a proprietary client-server world to a more uncertain future where competition comes from open source, the Web and other corners.

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Wow, Bill Gates is done? I bet he's retiring at 40 right?
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