We're still waiting for the verdict: Zune, the "next gen iPod killer," or Zune::Microsoft as albatross::Ancient Mariner. But this post is about an earlier ill-fated Microsoft expedition. The Seattle-Search blog mentions that December's search scores are in, and here's how the top three stack up:Google +0.4 share with 47.3% of the market Yahoo! +0.3 share with 28.3% of the market Microsoft -0.5 share with 10.5% of the marketHere's the comScore release. In real numbers,......

We're not sure what size the Seattle Dixie Chicks fanbase is, but this seemed worth a note: today MSN Video is webcasting their sold-out concert appearance at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, the place where Natalie Maines made her feelings about Dubya known three years ago. If you're into that whole twangy, free-thinking women thing, this is as good as it gets until they show up in Tacoma November 11. We note also that......

The Bill Gates Show in Vegas is wrapping up but if you want to catch up on all the hot Gates action there's the Gates keynote, the Gates/O'Reilly interview and the Gates blogger lunch. At what point does Gates become a bigger brand than Microsoft itself? Bill and others have taken the stage during Mix 06 and issued a big fat mea culpa for the fact that you're still using Internet Explorer 6. They're very......

The eyes of the internet were on Seattle for three days over the weekend as the "unconference" Seattle’s tech elite cooked up raged on the waterfront. At Technorati the current number one search is for "Gnomedex." That in itself is a noteworthy event and we’ll be slightly saddened when "Tom Cruise" returns to the top slot sometime soon. Flickr has over 2000 images tagged with “gnomedex” and that number will probably get a lot......

Passionate technology enthusiast, reporter, consultant, personality and entrepreneur Chris Pirillo recently moved himself and his Gnomedex conference to Seattle. Seattlest checked in on him to make sure he's settling in, altough we haven't had a chance to stop by with a box of cookies yet. Name, web browser, news aggregator? Chris Pirillo, Maxthon, NewsGator. Maxthon is a free overlay to Internet Explorer and kicks the stuffing out of other browsers out there today. NewsGator integrates......

Thanks to Mister Snitch for alerting us that Bill Gates is legally changing his name to 'The Gates', after buying all rights to the name from the artist Christo for $30 million. The Gates was knighted last night in a private ceremony (hot!) with the Queen of England. The Redmond PR department has requested that Seattlest refer to the Microsoft founder as "The Gates, Knight Commander of the British Empire" from here forward. In other,......

Redmond is recalling Xbox power cords, all 14.1 million of them around the world, and suggests that you turn off Halo 2 until you can get a new cord. There have been around 50 cases of minor injury or property damage due to the cords, but 1,400 of the consoles have burned up. Replacements are promised in between two to four weeks, which tells Seattlest that Redmond can expect a flood of about five......

Our boys in Redmond chose the right venue yesterday--the RSA Conference--to finally admit that they won't be able to withhold Internet Explorer 7 until the 2006 release of the Longhorn operating system as they had planned. Bill Gates also announced a new Microsoft Anti-Spyware software package coming soon, saying "We've made the decision that all of our Windows licensees should have that capability." The implication is, of course, that non-licensed Windows computers will be shut......