by Nick Wingfield, Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal
Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp., once bitter rivals in the mobile market, formed an alliance to strengthen their positions at a time when other competitors have become far more troublesome.
The deal between the two companies will bring Microsoft’s Office programs and other software to Nokia phones. It is aimed squarely at the professional market that Research In Motion Ltd. targets so successfully with its BlackBerry line of smart phones.
by Jeremy Reimer , Contributing Writer, Ars Technica
I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we’d all used in office jobs. “You know, I’ve been using Word for over 20 years,” I said, and immediately felt older than dirt. But it was true.
On April 30, 2007, with all the usual fanfare that accompanies a software update, Microsoft added Barack and Obama to Office’s dictionary. It was a fairly quick canonization for the Illinois senator. His surname had been on Microsoft’s candidate list for new words since Jan. 5 of that year, and his first name followed three days later, in the same recruiting class as Zune, Klum, and Friendster.
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