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The long reigning king of the desktop OS is in trouble. Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, is rapidly steering the company into the back office and service spaces, while their nascent mobile and desktop platforms are crumbling around them. Microsoft is putting on a brave face continuing to heavily advertise the 2-in-1 Surface debacle, but Nadella is only buying time, as he must surely know that Apple and Google is the two-headed beast that Microsoft can not stop. In less than a decade, Microsoft will be associated with IBM or Oracle, not Apple or Google. Apple’s iOS is poised for...

Motorcycle daredevil cannot sue sports network over "pimp" claim Evel Knievel has no valid defamation claim against ESPN over a photograph and caption published on a Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Jan. 5, 2005 -- Famed motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel cannot sue EPSN for defamation over a Web-published photograph of him and two woman with the caption "Evel Knievel proves that you're never too old to be a pimp," a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a decision centering on meaning of the word "pimp," the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) ruled 2-1...