<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : microsoft : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>4283</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/4283/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks, if not days.  But what do some of its toughest testers think?]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>7</score><crdate>10/24/2006 1:43:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-24T13:43:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12987</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/12987/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft group president Jeff Raikes told an audience in San Francisco last week that the company hopes people, if they&#8217;re going to pirate software, choose to pirate Microsoft software. What&#8217;s Raikes thinking?]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>27</score><crdate>3/13/2007 5:07:15 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-13T05:07:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41662</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41662/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Hit With Class Action Suit Over Xbox Live Fees ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Georgia man claims Microsoft improperly allowed his underage son to use his debit card to subscribe to the company's Xbox Live gaming service.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>92</score><crdate>11/14/2007 8:20:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-14T20:20:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>92067</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/92067/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, Microsoft installs a firefox extension. You are not notified that this will happen, nor are you given an option to install or not install. Not only that but the uninstall button is disabled. The only way to uninstall the extension is via registry hacks.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>221</score><crdate>1/31/2009 11:50:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-31T11:50:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133568</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133568/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Could Microsoft Pip Apple To The Post With A Tablet Device]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the longest time rumours have been rife about an tablet computer from Apple with nothing concrete confirmed.  It seems that all the while Microsoft have been quietly developing their own and now it's at an advanced prototype stage theyv'e started to share details.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>200</score><crdate>9/23/2009 7:58:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-23T19:58:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>110489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/110489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Vine: Emergency Social Networking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released Vine, software aimed at helping friends &amp; relatives connect during times of crisis. 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Some people could not access the service and so they are now sueing Microsoft for damages.<br/><br/>Wait...A game server is down and you're damaged?  I guess they had nothing else to do if they can't play online. For God's sake...read a friggin' book!!!<br/><br/>BTW..They plan on giving a free acrade game to everyone.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>124</score><crdate>1/8/2008 12:17:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-08T12:17:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54206</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/54206/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft re-designs the iPod package]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if Microsoft re-designed the iPod package...?]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>108</score><crdate>3/13/2008 5:11:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-13T17:11:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>92910</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/92910/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Latest Microsoft Bug - Real Mosquitoes]]></title><description><![CDATA[What's all the buzz about?  Microsoft founder Bill Gates let loose mosquitoes into the crowd at the TED Conference. <br/><br/>The crowd was abuzz, literally. One attendee, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar jumped on his Twitter account to say, &quot;That's it.  I am not sitting up front anymore.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>170</score><crdate>2/5/2009 8:50:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-05T08:50:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36808</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/36808/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Getting Hip With Open Source]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article talks about Microsoft and their Open Source AJAX project.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-12</score><crdate>9/26/2007 2:56:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-26T14:56:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32995</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/32995/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer performing a curious dance on Microsoft 25th Anniversary. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[What could possibly make Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's onstage antics even better? A techno remix, of course!]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>-12</score><crdate>8/24/2007 2:55:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-24T14:55:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>131708</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/131708/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>459</score><crdate>8/26/2009 4:15:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-26T16:15:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>83787</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83787/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Be bangin' with Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is launching a clothing line based on their products and logos from the '80s.  BIG TIME!!]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>82</score><crdate>12/6/2008 4:21:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-12-06T16:21:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43354</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/43354/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft unplugs oral sex talking Santa chat bot]]></title><description><![CDATA[An artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off topic saying: &quot;It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else....&quot;]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>75</score><crdate>12/5/2007 1:50:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-05T13:50:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>56167</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56167/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Surface]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft Surface is a crazy futuristic way to interact with your computer.  Microsoft has never done anything quite like this before.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>44</score><crdate>3/28/2008 5:15:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-28T17:15:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>94403</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/94403/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft bounty for worm creator ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reward of $250,000 (&#163;172,000) has been offered by Microsoft to find who is behind the Downadup/Conficker virus.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>142</score><crdate>2/13/2009 10:46:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-13T10:46:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>42789</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42789/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Nintendo, Microsoft, Philips Fail Greenpeace Toxic Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nintendo completely failed to show any environmental credentials, while Microsoft and Philips do little better.<br/><br/>*Note: Sony scored second highest, at 7.3 (Take that Nintendope and Microshaft)]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>77</score><crdate>11/28/2007 9:49:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-28T21:49:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>126951</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/126951/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft warns of serious Internet Explorer security hole]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn't fixed yet.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>328</score><crdate>7/7/2009 12:19:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-07T12:19:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>87177</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/87177/1/</url><title><![CDATA[All 1st Gen Zunes Locked up at the same time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently Microsoft has screwed us all.<br/>I have yet to see a fix for the issue but its happening to everyone who owns a first gen Zune.<br/>Where the HELL is Microsoft? It has gotten so bad CNN is now covering the story!]]></description><comments>43</comments><score>713</score><crdate>12/31/2008 10:39:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-12-31T10:39:39+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>