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Microsoft

Crime Tech

Robbing the Xbox Vault: Inside a $10 Million Gift Card Cheat

A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme.

Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 Permalink

Tech

I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life.

It was Hell.

Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Business Tech

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley

The anti-trust saga of Microsoft and Netscape.

Victor Luckerson The Ringer May 2018 30min Permalink

The Young and the Reckless

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.

Brendan I. Koerner Wired Apr 2018 35min Permalink

Business Tech

The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth

The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.

John Heilemann Wired Nov 2000 3h10min Permalink

Tech

How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo

The story of a lead squandered.

Kurt Eichenwald Vanity Fair Aug 2012 30min Permalink

Best Article Business Tech

Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend

When computer science legend Jim Gray disappeared, his friends and colleagues – including Bill Gates and Larry Ellison – used every technological tool at their disposal to try to find him.

Steve Silberman Wired Jul 2007 30min Permalink

Best Article History Tech

Absolute PowerPoint

The definitive story of a ubiquitous software. PowerPoint’s origins, its evolution, and its mind-boggling impact on corporate culture.

Ian Parker New Yorker May 2001 20min Permalink

Arts Food

Microsoft’s Former CTO Takes On Modernist Cuisine

Tackling the science of cooking, one perfect french fry at a time.

Mark McClusky Wired Mar 2011 20min Permalink

Business Tech

The Wizard Inside the Machine

An early attempt to explain the world-changing power of computer software—and the minds of young programmers like Bill Gates—to a mass audience. “Software,” the article begins, “is the magic carpet to the future.”

Michael Moritz, Peter Stoler Time Apr 1984 Permalink