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	<title>Martin Stabe &#187; microsoft</title>
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		<title>New York Times: Bits blog: Microsoft and H.P. to Reveal Slate PC Ahead of Apple</title>
		<link>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/ahead-of-apple-microsoft-and-hp-to-reveal-slate-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;On Wednesday, [Steve Ballmer], Microsoft’s chief executive, will unveil a novel take on a slate-type computer during his evening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.&#34; <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/ahead-of-apple-microsoft-and-hp-to-reveal-slate-pc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;On Wednesday, [Steve Ballmer], Microsoft’s chief executive, will unveil a novel take on a slate-type computer during his evening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>paidContent:UK: Big News Bucks Unlikely From Bing? Journalism Could Be The Loser</title>
		<link>http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-big-news-bucks-unlikely-from-bing-journalism-could-be-the-loser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Andrews: &#34;yanking news from Google searches would pose this challenging question: do web users value news so highly that they would switch search providers? The answer, in sad truth, may turn out to be &#39;no&#39;.&#34; <a href="http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-big-news-bucks-unlikely-from-bing-journalism-could-be-the-loser/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Robert Andrews: &quot;yanking news from Google searches would pose this challenging question: do web users value news so highly that they would switch search providers? The answer, in sad truth, may turn out to be &#039;no&#039;.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>FT.com: Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. ...[The] Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers [besides News Corp] to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine.&#34; <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. ...[The] Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers [besides News Corp] to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>FT.com: Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;[The] Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers [besides News Corp] to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine.&#34; <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;[The] Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers [besides News Corp] to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Techcrunch: Badda Bing! Microsoft woos newspapers by funding their stick to beat Google</title>
		<link>http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/13/badda-bing-microsoft-woos-newspapers-by-funding-their-stick-to-beat-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Microsoft plans to launch an assault on Google’s flank, by cosying up to major content providers, especially newspapers, that feel hard done by Google News. It plans to use Bing as a way to entice them out of the Google eco-system, into one where, increasingly, the content of major newspapers could well be found more often on Bing than on Google. ... Our sources say Microsoft has pledged to help fund research and engineering into ACAP to the tune of about will put £100,000. This is the more granular version of the robots.txt protocol which has been proposed by publishers to enable them to have a more sophisticated response to search engine crawlers. &#34; <a href="http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/13/badda-bing-microsoft-woos-newspapers-by-funding-their-stick-to-beat-google/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Microsoft plans to launch an assault on Google’s flank, by cosying up to major content providers, especially newspapers, that feel hard done by Google News. It plans to use Bing as a way to entice them out of the Google eco-system, into one where, increasingly, the content of major newspapers could well be found more often on Bing than on Google. ... Our sources say Microsoft has pledged to help fund research and engineering into ACAP to the tune of about will put £100,000. This is the more granular version of the robots.txt protocol which has been proposed by publishers to enable them to have a more sophisticated response to search engine crawlers. &quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Nieman Journalism Lab: Microsoft’s vision for a “next-gen newspaper” looks like TweetDeck</title>
		<link>http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/microsofts-vision-for-a-next-gen-newspaper-looks-like-tweetdeck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike Google&#39;s Fast Flip thing, this is actually a radical thought about how future news sites might work: &#34;Microsoft’s response [to the NAA] ... included an intriguing screen shot of an unreleased product it calls the &#39;Next-Generation Newspaper&#39;... the concept bears a close resemblance to TweetDeck&#34; <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/microsofts-vision-for-a-next-gen-newspaper-looks-like-tweetdeck/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Unlike Google&#039;s Fast Flip thing, this is actually a radical thought about how future news sites might work: &quot;Microsoft’s response [to the NAA] ... included an intriguing screen shot of an unreleased product it calls the &#039;Next-Generation Newspaper&#039;... the concept bears a close resemblance to TweetDeck&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>On The Media: So Long, We Barely Looked Things Up in Ye</title>
		<link>http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2009/04/10/segments/128359</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Tom Corddry, who was part of the team that created Encarta, talks about designing the first digital encyclopedia, the surprising backroom negotiations that surrounded its launch, and plastic that smells like leather.&#34; <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2009/04/10/segments/128359">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Tom Corddry, who was part of the team that created Encarta, talks about designing the first digital encyclopedia, the surprising backroom negotiations that surrounded its launch, and plastic that smells like leather.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Observer: Face facts: where Britannica ruled, Wikipedia has conquered</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/05/digital-media-referenceandlanguages</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/05/digital-media-referenceandlanguages#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Naughton: &#34;The story of Britannica is now a business-school case study in how rapidly competitors can emerge - apparently from nowhere - in a digital world. The First Rule of Business nowadays is that somewhere out there someone (and not just Google) is incubating a business plan that is based on eating your lunch.&#34; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/05/digital-media-referenceandlanguages">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[John Naughton: &quot;The story of Britannica is now a business-school case study in how rapidly competitors can emerge - apparently from nowhere - in a digital world. The First Rule of Business nowadays is that somewhere out there someone (and not just Google) is incubating a business plan that is based on eating your lunch.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>CurryBet: Mumbai terrorist attacks show that search engines still can&#8217;t get breaking news right</title>
		<link>http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/11/search_breaking_news_mumbai.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Belam: &#34;We are used to hearing that search engines are one of the primary routes that people find news on the net, but I&#39;ve just been having a scout around the three major search engines as news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai unfolds, and I have to say that they are not performing very well.&#34; <a href="http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/11/search_breaking_news_mumbai.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Martin Belam: &quot;We are used to hearing that search engines are one of the primary routes that people find news on the net, but I&#39;ve just been having a scout around the three major search engines as news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai unfolds, and I have to say that they are not performing very well.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>CIO: Telegraph CIO on swapping Google in for Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://www.cio.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&#038;ArticleID=2996</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;In an exclusive interview with CIO magazine, TMG CIO Paul Cheesbrough told us why [he's shifting 1400 Telegraph staff from Microsoft Office to Google Apps].&#34; <a href="http://www.cio.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&#038;ArticleID=2996">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;In an exclusive interview with CIO magazine, TMG CIO Paul Cheesbrough told us why [he's shifting 1400 Telegraph staff from Microsoft Office to Google Apps].&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Washington Post: Microsoft&#8217;s Ballmer on Yahoo and the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403770_pf.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Balmer: &#34;there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form.&#34; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403770_pf.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Steve Balmer: &quot;there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Microsoft: Blews &#8211; What the blogosphere tells you about news</title>
		<link>http://research.microsoft.com/projects/blews/blews.aspx</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level o <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/projects/blews/blews.aspx">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level o]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>WSJ.com: Google Offers to Help Yahoo Fight Off Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120206856800138831.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;AT&#38;T Inc., News Corp. (owner of Dow Jones &#38; Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Time Warner Inc. -- all considered candidates to do such a deal -- aren't preparing rival bids for Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter.&#34; <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120206856800138831.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;AT&amp;T Inc., News Corp. (owner of Dow Jones &amp; Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Time Warner Inc. -- all considered candidates to do such a deal -- aren't preparing rival bids for Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New York Times: Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/technology/04yahoo.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;a spokesman for the News Corporation said Sunday night that it was not preparing a bid, and other frequently named prospective suitors like Time Warner, AT&#38;T and Comcast have not begun work on offers, people close to them said.&#34; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/technology/04yahoo.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;a spokesman for the News Corporation said Sunday night that it was not preparing a bid, and other frequently named prospective suitors like Time Warner, AT&amp;T and Comcast have not begun work on offers, people close to them said.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Publishing 2.0: What Microsoft Buying Yahoo Really Means</title>
		<link>http://publishing2.com/2008/02/02/what-microsoft-buying-yahoo-really-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Karp: &#34;The main problem with Microsoft and Yahoo, looking forward, is that they are not web-native companies — they rely on centralized control models, rather than distributed network models&#34; <a href="http://publishing2.com/2008/02/02/what-microsoft-buying-yahoo-really-means/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Scott Karp: &quot;The main problem with Microsoft and Yahoo, looking forward, is that they are not web-native companies — they rely on centralized control models, rather than distributed network models&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Observer: Can Microsoft beat tough kid Google?</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/03/microsoft.google?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=media</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Microsoft faces the same sort of challenges from the internet as the newspaper industry: if it puts its product online it risks cannibalising its own business.&#34; But of course, Google is doing just that... <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/03/microsoft.google?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=media">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Microsoft faces the same sort of challenges from the internet as the newspaper industry: if it puts its product online it risks cannibalising its own business.&quot; But of course, Google is doing just that...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New York Times: Deal That May Create More, Not Less, Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/technology/02google.html?ex=1359694800&#038;en=7924182e8a4fc3db&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;In most industries, a merger of two major companies would cause everyone else to panic over a decline in competition. But in the case of the online advertising market ...&#34; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/technology/02google.html?ex=1359694800&#038;en=7924182e8a4fc3db&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;In most industries, a merger of two major companies would cause everyone else to panic over a decline in competition. But in the case of the online advertising market ...&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Indiskretion Ehrensache: Microhoo &#8211; Microwho?</title>
		<link>http://blog.handelsblatt.de/indiskretion/eintrag.php?id=1676</link>
		<comments>http://blog.handelsblatt.de/indiskretion/eintrag.php?id=1676#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Handelsblatt's Thomas Knüwer notes that a Yahoo-Microsoft merger would have a signifcant hurdle to overcome in the European Commission's anti-trust authorities (in German). <a href="http://blog.handelsblatt.de/indiskretion/eintrag.php?id=1676">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Handelsblatt's Thomas Knüwer notes that a Yahoo-Microsoft merger would have a signifcant hurdle to overcome in the European Commission's anti-trust authorities (in German).]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Guardian: Microsoft&#8217;s letter to the Yahoo board</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/01/microsoft.microsoft</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/01/microsoft.microsoft#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Together we can unleash new levels of innovation, delivering enhanced user experiences, breakthroughs in search, and new advertising platform capabilities.&#34; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/01/microsoft.microsoft">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Together we can unleash new levels of innovation, delivering enhanced user experiences, breakthroughs in search, and new advertising platform capabilities.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>BBC Internet Blog: The Days Before Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/12/the_days_before_launch.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/12/the_days_before_launch.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News Interactive's launch editor Mike Smartt explains the process of getting the site running 10 years ago. And  has a mockup of an &#34;MSBBC&#34; logo that might have been following talks with Microsoft. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/12/the_days_before_launch.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[BBC News Interactive's launch editor Mike Smartt explains the process of getting the site running 10 years ago. And  has a mockup of an &quot;MSBBC&quot; logo that might have been following talks with Microsoft.]]></content:encoded>
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