GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The latest ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft features the Windows XP “Bliss” desktop image. Throwing things back to the early 2000s, the tech giant’s latest soft-wear features “Bliss,” the default desktop image in the time of Windows XP.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“Bliss,” the Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper image, as seen in a YouTube video tutorial. Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the default desktop wallpaper image for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, the search for “Bliss” is still an intriguing one.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Fries came up through Microsoft in the ’80s, after the video game crash of 1983 forced him, as he put it onstage, to “get a real job” instead of pursuing game design. The Xbox project was a money sink on both the hardware and software sides, with Fries estimating it lost $1 billion per year for Microsoft until he left the company.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The topics covered included anecdotes from the start of the project, insight into what motivated some of the earliest decisions in the Xbox’s history, and predictions about what’s coming next in the video game industry. “Music and video and TV real-time broadcasting, that’s all coming together.

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Galido

MAY 10, 2016

While previous malware programs may have caused secondary physical problems, Stuxnet was unique in that it targeted software that controls industrial systems. Code Red (2001) Compared to modern malware, Code Red seems like an almost kinder, gentler version of a threat.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 27, 2010

By 2001 analysts were growing concerned that Microsoft’s revenue stream could falter, as the IT managers at large corporations began baulking at upgrading the software on all their PCs every time a new version of Microsoft Windows or Office was released. Rework your product versioning. Build evolutionary business models.

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