Week 7 Tech Briefing

Theme: Any (very recent) technology related story related to the Microsoft Corporation

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First Session

Team One - Bliss/Barnum
Microsoft loses Alcatel-Lucet patent legal spat
Richard Gaywood

Team Two - Bolthouse/Chapman
Bill Gates wants everyone to have Touch-Walls, How sweet...

Team Three - Stressman/Stephan

Team Four - Winkler / Weston
Microsoft today relaunched **Farecast**, the online travel prediction site that it acquired last month.

Team Five - Barber / Brown

Team Six - Wilson / Hite
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx

Team Seven - Vandermeer / Boyce
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/21/ms.office.supports.odf/

Team Eight - Keyes / Aungst
Googles widening the gap between yahoo and microsoft in users - http://www.mercurynews.com/google/ci_9343569

Team Nine - Guzek / Harkins
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 is the leading web browser, but the fresh-outta-beta Firefox 3 and Apple’s Safari 3.1 are gunning for its crown
http://loader.gadgetzone.com.au/Reviews/May-2008/Group-Test--Firefox-3-vs-IE-7-vs-Safari-3-1.aspx

Third Session

Team One - Witte / Guy
Microface?

Team Two - Anderson / Vanderlaan:

Team Three - Stowe / Savage:
Really cool newsreader - check it out here.


Team Four - VanMatre / Martin
Microsoft SP3

Team Five - Dunkle / Stephens

Team Six - Conkright / Lowery
Microsoft Surface!
Team Seven - Drumm / Turner

Team Eight - Atem / Colbert

Team Nine - Susick
One windoze per child