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Yahoo beats Street...waits for Microsoft
CNNMoney.com - USA
Earnings top estimates but may not be enough to lure Microsoft into
raising its takeover bid for the Internet company. By David Goldman,
CNNMoney.com staff ...
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Yahoo's Q1 does not change value for Microsoft -sources
Reuters - USA
O: Quote, Profile, Research) first-quarter results have not changed
Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) view of the
Internet company's value ...
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Microsoft finishes big XP update
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Microsoft said on Monday that it has wrapped up development of its
long-awaited Service Pack 3 update to Windows XP. The update, which
consists of ...
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Microsoft CRM Online: not so sharp
ZDNet - USA
Let me start off by offering grudging congratulations to Microsoft,
which took the wraps off CRM Online today, for finally acknowledging that
it has to ...
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Microsoft Eyes Management as Key to Virtualization
PC World - USA
Microsoft is targeting system management as a way to differentiate
itself from competitors in the virtualization market, the company said
Tuesday. ...
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Microsoft Loses Appeal of "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit
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bfwebster writes "Microsoft has lost its appeal to remove
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Microsoft finally releases new Vista Ultimate Extras, still ...
By Ryan Block
Last year Microsoft really carried on about fulfilling its commitment to all the power users that anted up to get untold future Vista Ultimate Extras -- yet none really materialized besides the disappointing early stuff like DreamScene ...
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Rerun: Jobs on Microsoft
By Andy Space
Just a rerun of an old favourite: A younger Steve Jobs speaks on Microsoft. Enjoy!
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Bob Muglia from Microsoft at Synergy
By Barry Flanagan
Bob Muglia is Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business (STB), a part of the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. STB is chartered to deliver Microsoft's unique vision for information technology professionals and ...
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Microsoft further reducing MSN Music support
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
In November 2006, Microsoft stopped selling music downloads through its MSN Music site, directing people to the Zune Marketplace instead. But customers who had already purchased tracks through MSN Music have been able to continue ...
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Yahoo overshadows Microsoft earnings, forecast
Reuters - USA
By Daisuke Wakabayashi SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp
(MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is expected to provide a first glimpse
at its projections ...
Earnings: Yahoo Call: Results 'Remarkable'; Open To Microsoft ...
Washington Post - United States
Microsoft: "Microsoft's proposal substantially
undervalues Yahoo.. the board's decision to reject was based on the
strength of our business. ...
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Details of Microsoft's 'Live Mesh' service
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
What exactly was Ray Ozzie talking about when he mentioned a "device mesh" at Microsoft's Mix08 conference in March? The company is filling in some of the details tonight with the announcement of its "Live Mesh" service. ...
Microsoft’s Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All ...
By Erick Schonfeld
But tonight Microsoft is finally launching a preview beta of Live Mesh, a new Windows Live platform for syncing files and, eventually, applications across different devices. (Of course, for Microsoft, a beta means 10000 people, ...
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Microsoft Dreams of a Live Mesh
By Irina Haltsonen
Microsoft thinks it has the answer, and it is called Live Mesh. The much-talked about technology is a service platform that allows users to manage and access different devices, share and synchronize files and stay in touch with others ...
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Yahoo 1Q profit rises, but Microsoft bid likely to stand pat
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But neither the first-quarter results nor Yahoo's outlook for the rest
of the year may be compelling enough to cause Microsoft to sweeten
its offer. ...
New Microsoft service to link PCs, hand-helds
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By TODD BISHOP A new Microsoft Corp. service promises to let people
connect their growing collections of PCs and hand-held devices in an online
"mesh" for ...
Microsoft's Tellme launches BlackBerry voice search
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SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp.'s Tellme subsidiary launched an
application for the BlackBerry on Tuesday that lets people speak commands
into their smart ...
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Microsoft Bets Against The Cloud With Mesh
By Hank Williams(Hank Williams)
It is a very natural extension of the work Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie did with Groove before he joined Microsoft. Mesh is essentially a synchronized file system, where files on one computer can be automatically synchronized to a user’s ...
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Flat Yahoo results muddy Microsoft bid
Globe and Mail - Canada
Yahoo Inc.'s better-than-expected first-quarter results reassured its
investors that Microsoft Corp. will be unlikely to lower the value
of its hostile ...
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Microsoft Won't Raise Yahoo Bid; Doesn't Need Company (Update4)
Bloomberg - USA
By Sara Gay Forden and Alex Armitage April 23 (Bloomberg) --
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the
world's biggest software maker ...
Yahoo's Net Rises, but Microsoft Is Unmoved
Wall Street Journal - USA
By KEVIN J. DELANEY Yahoo's first-quarter revenue and profit landed in
the high end of expectations, but Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive
Steve Ballmer said ...
Washington Post - United States
Yahoo co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang used the results to underscore his previous arguments that Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer undervalues the ...
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Microsoft turns the DRM screw on MSN Music owners
By Thomas Ricker
Well, if the Sony ATRAC debacle didn't serve as a warning there's always this: Microsoft just announced that it will no longer supply authorization keys for songs purchased from the defunct MSN Music service. ...
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Microsoft introduces cloud computing platform
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a new web service designed to connect
home computers, game consoles, mobile phones and their applications
together online. ...
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
"With Yahoo likely to continue to drag its feet on any deal with Microsoft, the risk of a long regulatory approval process before the deal can close, ...
Latest numbers won't help fend off Microsoft
MarketWatch - USA
An exceedingly strong report might have helped Yahoo to either prolong its
independence, or wrangle a better bid from Microsoft, analysts say.
...
Yahoo results better, not seen moving Microsoft
Reuters - USA
"Microsoft is breathing a sigh of relief," said Jim
Friedland, analyst at Cowen & Co. "Even though these are solid
results, given long- and short-term ...
Microsoft Hires Database Pioneer, Opens Database Development Lab
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Parallel database pioneer David DeWitt will join Microsoft as its
newest technical fellow and open an advanced development laboratory in
Madison, Wis. ...
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Microsoft, Companions in Courage partner to bring Xbox Live to ...
By Jason Dobson
Now, Microsoft has become the latest gaming organization to follow its moral compass, inking a partnership with NHL legend Pat LaFontaine's nonprofit Companions in Courage to bring 450 Xbox 360 game kiosks to children's hospitals in the ...
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Microsoft’s Live Mesh: Some Thoughts
By Ewan Spence
So last night (or 5am for us Brit’s, what great timing) Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie unveiled Live Mesh, the 10000 user beta of some of the ideas talked about at Mix08. In essence this is the start of Microsoft’s journey into cloud computing ...
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Microsoft threatens to drop Yahoo bid
International Herald Tribune - France
SAN DONATO MILANESE, Italy: , - Microsoft is prepared to walk away
from its $43.6 billion bid for Yahoo if the two sides cannot agree on a
price, ...
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SAN FRANCISCO--The launch of Live Mesh this week offers the clearest understanding yet of what Microsoft's Windows Live Platform group has been working on ...
Microsoft tests subscription pricing for Office
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SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is experimenting with selling its
Office suite of programs to consumers on a subscription basis. Instead of
installing each ...
Microsoft Tellme Launches BlackBerry Voice Search
Techtree.com - Mumbai,India
Microsoft subsidiary 'Tellme' has yesterday launched an
application for RIM's BlackBerry that allows users simply speak
commands into their smart phones to ...
Web walk: Microsoft should get Vista right before leaping ahead
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
A decision in the US this week to throw out an appeal by Microsoft
aimed at stopping the "Vista Capable" class action lawsuit that
has been mounted against ...
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Microsoft Developers Weigh In On Live Mesh
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Microsoft MVPs say that they hope Microsoft can deliver on
the big promises it's making with its software-plus-services
development platform. ...
Globe-trotting Ballmer says Microsoft can go forward without Yahoo
Seattle Times - United States
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is sending more signals to Yahoo
shareholders after the company's Tuesday earnings report. Take it or
leave it was the message ...
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Microsoft’s eco system: cracks in the reliability
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The microsoft eco system is often mentioned to be long term reliable and therefore be a good option for companies with long term plans or needs. However, recently some parts of Microsoft’s eco system fall apart and became incompatible, ...
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Microsoft 2.0 - "A Failure"
By TheSealPortalTeam
Backed by popular demand - I was asked to right all about Microsoft's many failure's sence Bill Gates mentioned he's leaving. This includes Live, office Live, vista and much more. So get ready for the real details why Web 2.1 for idiots ...
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Is Microsoft's Ballmer a bad dealmaker?
USA Today - USA
By Del Jones, USA TODAY The bid for Yahoo that helped sink the market value
of Microsoft (MSFT) by more than $20 billion in one day in early
February is one ...
Analysts: With Live Mesh, Microsoft tries to shift Web 2.0 playing ...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Eric Lai April 23, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp.'s
development of a Web-based device-synchronization service called Live Mesh
shows that the ...
Microsoft starts Vista SP1 auto delivery
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Gregg Keizer April 23, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft today
flipped the switch to start automatically upgrading some copies of Windows
Vista to Service ...
One Laptop Per Child -- And For Microsoft, Too
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Ugh. This is depressing news given how Linux has recently made inroads with
the low-cost PC market, only to have Microsoft push back by offering
XP for the ...
Microsoft Security Report: Trojan Horses Increase 300 Percent
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
A Microsoft Security Intelligence report tabulated a 300 percent
increase in the number of Trojan downloaders and droppers the last half of
2007 -- a trend ...
Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft
ZDNet - USA
On paper and in theory, Microsoft is a single corporation, with
something like 80000 employees worldwide. In the real world, it’s
actually a collection of ...
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What next? Assessing Microsoft's Yahoo bid
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
With Yahoo's quarterly earnings in the books, and Microsoft's Saturday deadline fast approaching, Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo remains in limbo. Some of the questions that may soon be answered: Will Yahoo announce a deal with AOL or ...
Time runs out on Microsoft's SPOT watches
By David Carnoy
(Credit: Microsoft). It's a sad day for fans of Smart Watches, which use Microsoft's once-hyped SPOT technology. The Smart Watch, the epitome of nerd-chic, is dead. Engadget picked up a blog post from Jon Canan, program manager ...
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Microsoft Investors Want End to Yahoo Fight as Stock Declines
Bloomberg - USA
By Amy Thomson April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Shareholders of Microsoft
Corp. may be more focused on news regarding the takeover of Yahoo Inc. than
the software ...
Microsoft CEO Says Has No Plans To Raise Yahoo Offer
CNNMoney.com - USA
MILAN -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Inc. (MSFT) Chief Executive Steve
Ballmer Wednesday said that Microsoft has no plans to raise its $44
billion offer for Yahoo ...
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Is Microsoft Hiring A ‘Halo’ Team For Peter Jackson This Week?
By Patrick Klepek
It appears Microsoft Game Studios is looking for folks to become a new “Halo” development team within their Redmond, Washington offices. And they’re not part of Bungie Studios. There’s no mention made of working with Bungie anywhere in ...
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Microsoft and Yahoo Russian Roulette
By catherine_holahan
Dixit, the ongoing Microsoft/Yahoo negotiations recall the Russian roulette scene in LA Confidential. Russell Crowe has a loaded revolver in the suspect’s mouth and he’s firing. With each shot, the suspect’s risk of losing everything ...
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Ballmer: Microsoft Could Walk Away From Yahoo Deal
PC World - USA
Microsoft gave its first hint that it may abandon its $44.6 billion
bid for Yahoo, as it approaches the deadline for a threatened proxy battle
to oust ...
Former Nextel CEO on Microsoft's proxy slate: reports
Reuters - USA
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile,
Research) has assembled a proxy slate of 10 candidates and three alternates
to nominate to ...
Microsoft's Live Mesh: Online sync service with web desktop
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Microsoft has launched a test version of an online service for some
10000 registered beta users. Live Mesh will allow multiple PCs and portable
devices to ...
OLPC sweet talks Microsoft
Register - London,England,UK
He said that Microsoft and the Foundation are also exploring the
possibility of a dual boot version of the XO with the option to run Linux
or Windows. ...
Fandango and Microsoft's Tellme to Launch Voice-Activated Mobile ...
FOXBusiness - USA
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Web 2.0 Expo --
Today Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination, and Tellme,
a Microsoft ...
Open Text's 'Repository of Record' For Microsoft Office SharePoint ...
FOXBusiness - USA
Through its strategic alliance with Microsoft, Open Text offers
optimized ECM solutions for the Microsoft platform, including
records management and ...
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Microsoft adCenter Customers Get Premium Organic Listing Support ...
By ba...@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a member complaining that after he signed up with Microsoft adCenter, he noticed his site was removed from the Live Search index. For those that do not know, adCenter is the search ad...
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Microsoft Leans Away From Yahoo Buy
By Kathleen
ADOTAS – Microsoft Corp. shareholders and employees are increasingly reluctant to commit to the potential $44.6 billion take over of Yahoo and Steve Ballmer is taking their reticence to heart. Microsoft’s stock has dropped more than 3% ...
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Microsoft Mesh: If I'm so smart...
By Tom(Tom)
Mesh is all about Microsoft. A Mesh application will install through Mesh, need Mesh to run, connect over Mesh, be accessed via the Mesh flyout, and will store its data in Mesh repositories. Applications essentially become Mesh plug-ins ...
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Yahoo! and Microsoft
Economist - UK
That is because he spoke four days before Microsoft was due, on
April 26th, to carry out its threat to turn its takeover offer for Yahoo!
hostile, ...
Microsoft Seeks Mesh Sizzle
Forbes - NY,USA
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) demonstrated its grand
vision for the future of Web-based software and services at the Web 2.0
conference in San ...
Yahoo overshadows Microsoft earnings
Reuters - USA
By Daisuke Wakabayashi SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is
expected to provide a first glimpse at its projections for its coming year,
...
No Change in XP Plan Despite Ballmer Comment, Microsoft Says
PC World - USA
Comments by Steve Ballmer at a press conference in Europe on Thursday have
led to speculation that Microsoft is reconsidering its June 30
deadline to stop ...
Bad Microsoft, Good Microsoft
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
There's a right way and a wrong way to do almost everything, and in the
last couple of days Microsoft has done exactly the wrong thing in
one case (and ...
Microsoft turns up heat on Yahoo
Reuters UK - UK
A partial list of Microsoft nominees for the Yahoo board first
surfaced in March, when TechCrunch reported on sources a list that included
Meyer, Chapple, ...
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The Summary on Microsoft
By James A. Robertson(James A. Robertson)
Rob Fahrni sums up Microsoft's stance with customers:. So, you have the Vista debacle, iPod rules the roost, the Yahoo! acquisition is going well, and now you're going to shut down people who legally purchased music from you? Wow. ...
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Microsoft earns $14.5B with Xbox 360 help
Microsoft today announced that its latest fiscal quarter earned the company approximately $14.5 billion, or 47 cents per share. The revenue is not a record for the company but is credited in part to the surprising success of the ...
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Judo Economics: Bringing Down Microsoft
By Michael Krotscheck
Now lets take this example to the real world: Microsoft is currently serving the vast majority of the desktop market. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine a desktop computer that doesn’t run Windows, and even in the laptop market they ...
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Microsoft: Strategy solid even without Yahoo
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
Investors and others trying to figure out where Microsoft's Yahoo bid is headed will be closely analyzing comments made on the subject by Chris Liddell, Microsoft's chief financial officer, during the company's earnings conference call ...
Microsoft Stands Firm on Yahoo Bid As It Reports Flat Revenues And ...
By Erick Schonfeld
Microsoft just announced its March quarterly earnings. As expected, CFO Chris Liddell did not budge on Microsoft’s stance towards raising its bid for Yahoo. During the conference call he made the following statement about Yahoo, ...
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By ba...@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a member complaining that after he signed up with Microsoft adCenter, he noticed his site was removed from the Live Search index. For those that do not know, adCenter is the search ad...
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Microsoft's Q3: Nothing, not even the EU, can stop the profits
By Microsoft Subnet
Microsoft today announced third-quarter revenue, operating income and diluted earnings per share of $14.45 billion, $4.41 billion and $0.47, respectively -- and that's after the EU's wrist slap of $1.4 billion (or 15 cents a share), ...
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Microsoft Needs Yahoo
BusinessWeek - USA
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a press conference on Mar. 3,
2008, in Hanover, Germany Sean Gallup/Getty Images by Aaron Ricadela During
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Microsoft Shows Gains, but Also Weaknesses
New York Times - United States
By STEVE LOHR Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo may have run into some
bumps, but its big software business is humming along smoothly. ...
Microsoft Holds to Tough Yahoo! Stance
TheStreet.com - USA
"We've been clear that speed is of the essence" to
Microsoft's growth strategy for the online advertising and
search markets, Liddell said. ...
Microsoft's XP intransigence is simply mystifying; can Dell save ...
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Microsoft's XP intransigence is simply mystifying; can Dell save
the day? You have to wonder what's going on a Microsoft when it
comes to the issue of ...
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Microsoft on Thursday reported quarterly earnings that edged past analysts' estimates, but revenue came in slightly below what some analysts had been ...
Microsoft gives rosy outlook
CNNMoney.com - USA
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced
its fiscal third-quarter earnings Thursday, posting a quarterly profit that
beat ...
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Microsoft i'm initiative raises $1.3 million for charity
By Brad Linder
A little over a year ago, Microsoft announced a program that sounded just so crazy it could... be crazy. The company's i'm Initiative lets Windows Live Messenger users choose from a list of charities, and then every time they send an ...
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60% Chance Microsoft Walks From Yahoo Deal (MSFT / YHOO)
By Henry Blodget
Microsoft's squishy quarter makes it less likely that Microsoft's rising stock will raise the value of Microsoft's bid on its own. (Ironically, of course, as the deal becomes less likely, Microsoft's stock will rise because of that--but ...
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Microsoft’s New Threat to Yahoo: We’ll Buy Someone Else
By Saul Hansell
Microsoft said that if Yahoo doesn't submit to its merger proposal by Saturday, it will do something really bad next week. That might be going to Yahoo shareholders, abandoning the offer, or even buying AOL or some other Yahoo rival.
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Setting up PostgreSQL as a Linked Server in Microsoft SQL Server ...
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We would like to thank Jeff Crumbley of IILogistics for providing many of these steps and informing us that Microsoft has finally released a 64-bit OLEDB for ODBC driver. For those who have not experienced the torture of this situation ...
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Microsoft Presents:
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Cloud Computing Yes, but Microsoft Mess? - err, Mesh?
By Scott
There are already people doing this with other programs, but Microsoft sees another revenue opportunity, so the’tve launched the Microsoft Mesh website, and sent out some private invitations. Here’s a first look at Mesh by a brave ...
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Your time's up, Microsoft tells Yahoo!
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
MICROSOFT has given Yahoo! no hope of a higher takeover price,
saying it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo!
maintains "unrealistic ...
Microsoft looks to the clouds
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
By Martin J Young HUA HIN, Thailand - Microsoft is about to take a
big step into the growing realm of cloud computing by offering software
services running ...
Microsoft could Keep XP; if Consumers wish!
Techtree.com - Mumbai,India
A week into the release of Windows Service Pack 3, Microsoft Chief
Steve Ballmer is saying the company could re-consider phasing out of its
most widely-used ...
Hazy Microsoft Outlook, Data Knock Stocks Red
FOXBusiness - USA
Wall Street dipped into negative territory Friday morning after a new
survey showed consumer sentiment in April declined to a 26-year low and
Microsoft's ...
Editorial: Close scrutiny needed if Yahoo, Microsoft merge
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
A climax to the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover drama is drawing near. If
Microsoft's unsolicited overtures succeed, the $44 billion deal
will mark a defining ...
Stock futures rise, techs in focus after Microsoft
Reuters - USA
The technology sector will likely be the main focus for the day on the
corporate front after Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile,
Research) posted ...
Microsoft unveils e-government platform
VNUNet.com - UK
Microsoft has released its Citizen Service Platform (CSP) designed
to help governments of all sizes deliver services to citizens via the
internet. ...
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Microsoft Shows Gains, but Also Weaknesses
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Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo may have run into some bumps, but its big software business is humming along smoothly. The company reported quarterly earnings Thursday that slightly surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, and it provided an ...
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Microsoft Quarterly Figures Show $14.45 billion
"For the quarter, Microsoft had sales of $14.45 billion, flat relative to the same period a year ago. Profit was $4.39 billion, or 47 cents a share, beating the 44 cents Wall Street analysts expected on average."
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Microsoft-Yahoo: Deal or no deal?
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Linda Rosencrance April 25, 2008 (Computerworld) Three weeks ago,
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer threatened to launch a hostile
takeover if Yahoo ...
Microsoft swears it's embracing open standards - really!
CNNMoney.com - USA
By Michael V. Copeland, senior writer SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- One thing
Microsoft isn't good at creating is buzz - that's Apple
expertise. ...
Mixed Verdict: Microsoft Limits Market’s Gains
FOXBusiness - USA
Wall Street couldn't completely climb out from Microsoft's
shadow on Friday, ending the session with tech stocks keeping the Nasdaq
Composite in the red but ...
US STOCKS-Market falls on Microsoft's results, oil's jump
Reuters - USA
By Cal Mankowski NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - US stocks fell on Friday as
disappointing results from Microsoft Corp (MSFT. ...
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Microsoft has been counting on gains against unlicensed software to boost revenue from the Windows unit, which accounts for a huge chunk of overall profits ...
Microsoft Completes FAST Purchase
PC World - USA
Microsoft has completed its US$1.2 billion purchase of FAST Search
& Transfer and will install the company's CEO as head of a newly
formed enterprise search ...
Microsoft's Earnings Disappoint Investors
Red Herring - CA,USA
by Red Herring Staff Microsoft shares dipped by nearly 5 percent in
after-hours trading Thursday after the Redmond, Washington software giant
said its third ...
US STOCKS-Market falls on Microsoft, consumer confidence
Reuters UK - UK
By Kristina Cooke NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday, as
disappointing results from tech bellwether Microsoft overshadowed
gains in ...
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Microsoft’s Vista Problem
By Steve Lohr
Microsoft keeps insisting that Windows Vista is a winner, but the questions keep mounting — and yesterday’s quarterly report only added to the doubts. Revenue from the company’s so-called client division — PC operating systems mainly ...
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Microsoft stock drops; Yahoo deadline looms
By Todd Bishop
Microsoft shares fell more than 6 percent in trading today, to $29.83, following mixed quarterly results that included a larger-than-expected revenue shortfall in the company's PC Windows business. Meanwhile, all eyes are on Microsoft ...
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Scott Charney: Microsoft's Ax Man
PC World - USA
Some people might dream of having the power to kill a product just before
launch at a company the size of Microsoft, but for Scott Charney,
that's just part ...
Microsoft's Numbers Fall Short of 'Street' Expectations
Red Herring - CA,USA
by mark selfe Two days before Steve Ballmer's buyout offer with Yahoo
expires and the street appears to be less than thrilled with
Microsoft's third fiscal ...
Wall Street trades mixed on weak consumer confidence, Microsoft's ...
Xinhua - China
In addition, Microsoft's disappointing earnings report late
Thursday weighed on technology-heavy Nasdaq. The computer software giant
reported a 11 percent ...
Microsoft falls on weak forecasts
BBC News - UK
Microsoft saw its shares fall 6% after it posted a fall in quarterly
profits and earnings forecasts at the lower end of market expectations.
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Will Microsoft get rough with Yahoo?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a big decision to make this weekend -- how hostile he wants his bid for Yahoo to be. Microsoft set Saturday as a deadline for Yahoo to accept its $44 billion offer. Or else...? Alisa Roth reports.
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Gates talks Google, Vista and (maybe) Yahoo
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
Bill Gates alluded to Yahoo only barely, if at all, but discussed just about everything else during a University of Washington event Friday that felt like a combination homecoming and farewell for the Microsoft chairman.
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Yahoo-Microsoft Fight Heads for a Deadline
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By KEVIN J. DELANEY and MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG Yahoo Inc. and
Microsoft Corp. remained in a standoff Friday as a threatened
Microsoft deadline for a hostile ...
Microsoft's Live Mesh: Web Fabric With Loose Threads
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By J. Nicholas Hoover Microsoft has conceded what others have been
saying--that the PC is no longer the center of the computing experience.
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Microsoft's Xbox group enjoys second quarter of profit
By Ryan Block
It's taken a few years, but lightning's struck twice for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division (the portion of the company responsible for Zune, Windows Mobile, and Xbox). The operating profit of $89 million that E&D drew is ...
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Microsoft deadline looms for Yahoo
ABC Online - Australia
Microsoft's unwanted courtship of Yahoo has hit a critical point
as a deadline arrives for the struggling internet pioneer to accept the
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By nob...@flickr.com (Andrew Novak The Artist)
Yahoo's board of directors rejected Microsoft's $31 a share offer as it "substantially undervalues" the firm and said they would welcome an offer above $40 a share. Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo hit a deadline on Saturday ...
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D-Day: Still No Word From Microsoft
Wired News - USA
By Betsy Schiffman April 26, 2008 | 11:58:19 AMCategories: MicroHoo,
Microsoft, Yahoo On April 5, Microsoft informed Yahoo's
board that it would take its ...
Microsoft shares fall on 4Q outlook, weak Windows sales
Forbes - NY,USA
AP 04.25.08, 2:04 PM ET Microsoft Corp. delivered an upbeat message
for fiscal 2009, but its shares fell Friday after the software bellwether
offered a ...
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Next Move in the Microsoft-Yahoo Battle: Analysts, Wall Street ...
By Henry Blodget
We asked Microsoft whether that move would come this weekend, or whether we could just forget about corporate M&A wars and enjoy a Blackberry-free Saturday in spring. We were politely referred to the comments Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell ...
Microsoft Chomps and Swallows Fast
By Stephen E. Arnold
John Lervik, the Fast Search CEO, will become a corporate vice president at Microsoft. He will report to Jeff Teper, the corporate vice president for the Office Business Platform at Microsoft. The idea–based on my understanding of the ...
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Time Ends For Microsoft-Yahoo Negotiations. What Now?
By Paul Glazowski
If you recall a news development of three weeks past, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer essentially gave Jerry Yang and the Yahoo board 21 days to decide whether they wish to deal with the takeover attempt cordially or fought to a bloody. ...
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Yahoo mum as Microsoft's merger deadline passes
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
(04-26) 17:54 PDT SUNNYVALE -- Yahoo Inc. let a Saturday deadline set by
Microsoft Corp. to accept a merger pass in silence, setting the
stage for the next ...
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February 2007: Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer receives a letter from Yahoo CEO Terry Semel declining to negotiate an acquisition. ...
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Cisco and Microsoft in Clash of the UC Titans
According to a new study by analyst firm Infonetics Research, Cisco and Microsoft are locked in a "battle of the titans" for the unified communications (UC) market, with both vendors currently favored by buyers as Unified Messaging and ...
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Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo
ZDNet - USA
Microsoft’s Saturday “negotiate or else” deadline for Yahoo
has passed with an eerie silence. Yahoo’s board is reportedly meeting
Sunday–you’d think the ...
What's Driving Microsoft's Strategy
PC World - USA
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Some Suggestions to Have a Better Microsoft Community
By Keyvan Nayyeri
One of the common things and activities around Microsoft community is finding some ways to keep it active and make it better day after day and many guys provide their suggestions and opinions to achieve this. On the other hand, ...
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Reveal Truth About Microsoft License / Promotion Deals
By gear
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Dear Microsoft: Please stay dorky. It's who you are...and it works.
By CK (Christina Kerley)
My oh my this Microsoft video (below) has been getting tons of feedback across the marketing community (mainly via Twitter) as well as the overall Web. An internal video for their sales force, it wasn't supposed to "get out" but it did. ...
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Microsoft/Yahoo Deadline Passes With No Deal
PC World - USA
Yahoo failed to agree to an acquisition deal with Microsoft by
Saturday, the deadline Microsoft had set for wrapping up
negotiations. ...
Microsoft: Massive site attacks not our fault
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Gregg Keizer April 27, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft late Friday
denied that vulnerabilities in its Web and SQL server software had been
exploited to ...
Ubuntu man says Microsoft's about to 'swallow a hand-grenade'
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headquarters and Microsoft's Silicon Valley residence. It's
Sunday, and I've yet to hear screams from either camp. So, it seems
that Microsoft's call to ...
'Hundreds of thousands' of Microsoft web servers hacked. FAIL
guardian.co.uk - UK
So, anyway, how's that support contract from Microsoft for your
company's web server running IIS looking? Because you might need to
call on it. ...
Rate uncertainty hangs over US stocks
Reuters - USA
A disappointing earnings report from Microsoft capped gains by all
three major US stock indexes last week. For the past week, the Dow Jones
industrial ...
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Microsoft: Listen to Your Heart (And Ignore the Bean Counters)
By BMWFan
Microsoft surprised no one with their unsolicited offer for Yahoo! in January 2008. What surprised some Wall Street observers was the premium Microsoft was willing to pay for Yahoo’s then share price. At that time the $31/share offer ...
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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Microsoft earned brownie points from industry observers and programmers last week when Ray Ozzie, its chief software architect (otherwise known as he who is ...
Microsoft deadline for Yahoo deal passes in silence
MarketWatch - USA
By MarketWatch The three-week deadline that Microsoft gave Yahoo to
come to an agreement on its unsolicited bid passes with no announcement
expected until ...
Dell Will Sell XP Beyond Microsoft Cut-Off Date
TrustedReviews - Bracknell,England,UK
... planning to only buy a ULCPC this looks a good bet. As for
Microsoft: fellas, if you'd made a better OS in the first place
you wouldn't be in this mess...
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Microsoft’s Google goggles
By Barbara Darrow
</a></p><p>By now it’s clear those at the top of Microsoft are obsessed with Google. What’s unclear is if that power structure will be able to do to that market dominator what a Microsoft was able to do years ago to previous rivals: ...
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Microsoft Weighs How to End Standoff; Yahoo Lets Deadline Pass
Bloomberg - USA
By Amy Thomson and Ville Heiskanen April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft
Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is weighing a fight to oust
Yahoo! ...
Microsoft denies mass hack caused by software fault
Xinhua - China
BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Microsoft Corp. denied the recent
incident, in which more than half a million websites were hacked, was
caused by ...
THE WEEK IN STOCKS: Street has two winning weeks in a row
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
As the week ended, traders shrugged off disappointing earnings news from
Microsoft Corp., rising oil prices and the results from the
Reuters/University of ...
Microsoft: Search for Linux and Unix? No problem.
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
By Emil Protalinski | Published: April 27, 2008 - 09:21PM CT In July 2007,
Microsoft worked with Fast Search & Transfer (also known as
FAST) to improve the ...
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Just Say Yes
By Steve Gillmor
So it went with Microsoft, as the seeming invulnerability of Gates’ machine accelerated to the boundaries of global saturation. Though we tend to think of Google as the conqueror, the reality is that Microsoft has struggled most with ...
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Yahoo And Microsoft - The Stalemate Continues
By Stan Schroeder
Predictions abound: Microsoft can raise its $31 per share bid, stand firm, go hostile, or even lower the bid in the wake of Yahoo’s relatively poor quarterly financial results. Yahoo can do any number of things, many of which include ...
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Microsoft v Yahoo -- a big week ahead?
guardian.co.uk - UK
The deadline for Yahoo to accept Microsoft's
"friendly" takeover offer has now passed, and unless Yahoo says
something soon, Steve Ballmer faces a big ...
Microsoft offers assistance to combat mass SQL injection
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Microsoft has provided security advice to web developers using its
products after many such sites were compromised. Last week, hundreds of
thousands of web ...
Microsoft Disappoints; Windows Sales Off
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
After three strong quarters and against a backdrop of heady expectations,
Microsoft came in with lighter-than-expected fiscal Q3 revenues of
$14.45 billion ...
Microsoft Gulf teams up with Qatar’s Ministry of Economy to ...
Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan
Microsoft Gulf, in collaboration with the Qatar Ministry of Economy,
has announced that it has recently conducted anti-piracy raids on two
resellers that ...
Microsoft/Yahoo Deadline Passes With No Deal
ABC News - USA
UPDATE: Yahoo failed to agree to an acquisition deal with Microsoft
by the Saturday deadline, Microsoft responds. (Note: This article
was updated with ...
After so much Yahoo, will Microsoft walk away?
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
With Saturday's deadline passed, Wall Street and the tech industry are
awaiting Microsoft's next move in its Yahoo bid. As of early
Monday morning, ...
Microsoft Winks, E*Trade Blinks, Medarex Sinks
Motley Fool - USA
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz April 28, 2008 The three-week deadline that
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) imposed on Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) to agree
to its buyout ...
Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties
ZDNet - USA
The memo — an internal planning document for what Microsoft calls
“Windows Live Wave 3″ — dates back to August 2007. In it, Chris
Jones, Corporate Vice ...
Ballmer suggests XP might stay while PC makers flout Microsoft
iTWire - Australia
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt The other Steve, Steve Ballmer, has suggested that
Microsoft might keep on selling XP if it’s what customers want –
but companies such ...
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Microsoft Paper: Improving Search Results By Mining Web Surfing ...
By Danny Sullivan
A new research paper from Microsoft looks at how surfing behavior -- as logged by a search toolbar -- can be used to improve search results. Click to continue reading...
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What will Microsoft do about Yahoo?
By Franklin Paul
Things could get complicated soon in the saga of Microsoft’s quest to acquire Yahoo, since the software makers deadline for what was origianlly seen as a friendly deal — at the right price — passed this weekend without Yahoo saying “I ...
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Mesh: It's not about hating Microsoft
By James A. Robertson(James A. Robertson)
The problem is fairly basic - and, based on their stealth announcement, I believe MS understands the same thing: this is the sort of net based extension of Microsoft technologies that would have been really interesting 5 years ago. Now? ...
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Microsoft & Yahoo: Deal or No Deal?
By The Guru
This past Saturday, April 26th was the deadline Microsoft had given Yahoo before they would go directly to the shareholders. This deadline was established via a follow-up letter from Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer to Yahoo on April 5th. ...
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Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With ...
Wired News - USA
By Scott Gilbertson April 28, 2008 | 8:04:40 AMCategories: security A new
SQL injection attack aimed at Microsoft IIS web servers has hit some
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The Market Story Stocks Crawl as Market Chews on Data
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YHOO and Microsoft MSFT were little changed after a weekend deadline
for Yahoo! to respond to Microsoft's takeover bid passed without
any comment from ...
No One Can Call the Odds on Microsoft-Yahoo!
TheStreet.com - USA
YHOO let a Microsoft MSFT deadline to agree to its merger terms
expire without action or comment on Saturday. Leave it to commentator Henry
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Microsoft: Massive site attacks not our fault
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Microsoft late Friday denied that
vulnerabilities in its Web and SQL Server software had been exploited to
hack hundreds of ...
Yahoo shares edge down, following Microsoft deadline expiration
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Microsoft shares, on the other hand, dipped as low as $29.37 in
early-morning trading before rising to $29.50 later in the session.
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Microsoft SWI blog inaccuracies.
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Microsoft, Yahoo aren't talking as investors await next move
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Yahoo Inc. haven't held any recent discussions to break an impasse that
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Partners To Microsoft: Stop Bashing Vista
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb Some Microsoft channel partners say
the software giant's recent blunt public statements about Windows Vista
are putting them ...
Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
Slashdot - USA
The vulnerability seems to be limited to Microsoft's IIS
webserver and is easily defeated by the end user with Firefox and
"NoScript". ...
Microsoft lands Democratic National Convention, ties Google in ...
ZDNet - USA
Microsoft and Google duke it out on multiple fronts: Search,
applications, the Web and now political conventions. For
Microsoft’s part, the software giant ...
Microsoft picked for Democratic convention
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Software giant Microsoft Corp. will be the official software and HD
web content provider for the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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Microsoft Finally Stays on Message About Services
PC World - USA
The deadline Microsoft gave Yahoo for making a deal or facing a
proxy fight came and went this weekend without a word from either party.
...
Microsoft Dampens Yahoo`s Social Network Glory
eWeek - New York, NY
By Clint Boulton Yahoo's Open Strategy could make the company the
weapon Microsoft needs for social network dominance. The gross
attention financial ...
Microsoft Finalizes $1.2 Billion Fast Search Purchase
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Former CEO John Markus Lervik will lead the enterprise search effort which
will include bolstering Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server.
...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Microsoft executives typically refrain from publicly theorizing, in any detail, about the company's share price. But a new regulatory filing provides a ...
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Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
By ScuttleMonkey(he...@slashdot.org)
The vulnerability seems to be limited to Microsoft's IIS webserver and is easily defeated by the end user with Firefox and "NoScript". "The automated attack takes advantage to the fact that Microsoft's IIS servers allow generic commands ...
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Microsoft
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Well, now the Republicans are definitely gonna win.
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Seven Reasons You Can’t Bury Microsoft
By The VAR Guy
Software as a service (SaaS) and open source are giving Microsoft fits. Yet, it’s far too early to bury Microsoft. Here are seven reasons why the software giant’s empire won’t completely fall anytime soon. ...
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No Break in the Standoff of Microsoft and Yahoo
New York Times - United States
By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — The deadline that Microsoft
imposed on Yahoo to reach a negotiated merger agreement passed three days
ago, ...
Microsoft to get tough with Yahoo
guardian.co.uk - UK
Wall Street expects Microsoft to enter a protracted period of
"trench warfare" in its attempt to buy Yahoo after the failure of
its three-month-long attempt ...
Microsoft Highlights Efforts to Police the Net
PC World - USA
Microsoft spends millions of dollars each year developing security
products that it gives to law enforcement agencies, knowing that it may not
make any ...
Microsoft to turn hostile as Yahoo! stays silent
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By James Quinn, Wall Street Correspondent Microsoft looks set to
turn hostile with its $42.8bn (£21.4bn) offer for Yahoo!, after its
self-imposed deadline ...
Yahoo, Microsoft let deadline pass
Houston Chronicle - United States
The top executives at Microsoft and Yahoo haven't held any
recent discussions to break an impasse over Microsoft's
3-month-old takeover bid, according to ...
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Interview With Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney On Yahoo/Microsoft/Google
By Michael Arrington
Citi’s Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney has been at the center of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover battle since the beginning. On February 2, a day after the Microsoft bid, Mahaney gave his reasons why he believed the deal had just a 60% ...
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San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Elise Ackerman and Pete Carey Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is trying a new tactic in his battle to take over Yahoo: Silence. ...
Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime
Seattle Times - United States
By Benjamin J. Romano Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device
that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers
that may ...
Microsoft Botnet-hunting Tool Helps Bust Hackers
PC World - USA
Although Microsoft is reluctant to give out details on its botnet
buster -- the company said that even revealing its name could give cyber
criminals a clue ...
Microsoft Cuts XBox 360 Prices In 4 Asia Markets
CNNMoney.com - USA
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Tuesday said it has
cut the price of its Xbox 360 video game console in four Asian markets.
...
Product review: Microsoft Response Point 1.0
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Mike Heck Microsoft's Response Point is PBX software that
runs on Embedded XP inside of hardware sold by three Microsoft
partners -- Aastra, D-Link, ...
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Falling Microsoft Income Endangers Yahoo Bid
By Slashdot.org
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points out a new wrinkle to Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo. The most recent quarterly results, which saw Microsoft's earnings drop by 6% from the previous year (revenue from Windows alone was down 24%), ...
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Betrayed MSN Music Customers Deserve More from Microsoft
By Rebecca Jeschke
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging Microsoft Corporation to fix the problems it will cause when it shuts down the MSN Music validation servers, making it impossible for customers to transfer their music ...
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Microsoft champions green computing
VNUNet.com - UK
Microsoft has announced plans to support four academic research
projects focused on energy-efficient computing as part of its Sustainable
Computing Program. ...
Microsoft Cuts Xbox 360 Prices in Four Asian Markets (Update3)
Bloomberg - USA
By Chinmei Sung and Amy Thomson April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft
Corp., the maker of the Xbox 360 video-game console, cut prices on the
system in four ...
Vodafone, Microsoft to launch SMS search service in India
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29 Apr, 2008, 2019 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Mobile service provider Vodafone
on Tuesday said it has joined hands with Microsoft India to provide
its users ...
HN: Microsoft wants to buy Czech portal Seznam.cz
Prague Daily Monitor - Prague,Czech Republic
By ČTK / Published 28 April 2008 Prague, April 28 (CTK) - The world's
largest software producer Microsoft is in talks to buy the biggest
Czech Internet ...
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Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
By timothy(he...@slashdot.org)
IGnatius T Foobar writes "Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that "may have been used in crimes." It basically bypasses all of the Windows security ...
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Microsoft drops price of Xbox 360 in Asia
By Ross Miller
Microsoft has dropped the price of its Xbox 360 in four Asian markets: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan (via Bloomberg). According to Microsoft executive Jeff Bell, price reductions in Europe caused sales of the hardware ...
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Webcast with Forrester & Microsoft
By Blake Cahill
Please join me for an upcoming webcast on May 22 at 10AM PST/1PM EST featuring Peter Kim from Forrester Research and Marty Collins from Microsoft where we will discuss how companies can “Unlock Social Media’s ROI through Monitoring and ...
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Microsoft Very Quiet, but Something Is Happening
Wired News - USA
By Kevin Kelleher, Portfolio.com 04.29.08 | 10:55 AM Microsoft has
been radio silent since Yahoo's doomsday clock struck midnight last
weekend. ...
Microsoft delays release of Windows XP SP3
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
April 29, 2008 (IDG News Service) Microsoft Corp. has delayed the
release of its third service-pack update for Windows XP, blaming a
"compatibility issue" ...
Microsoft System Center gets cross-platform support
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Elizabeth Montalbano April 29, 2008 (IDG News Service) Microsoft
Corp. is releasing beta technologies that allow its systems management
software to ...
Yahoo maintains silence
CNNMoney.com - USA
Three days have passed since the expiration of Microsoft's
deadline for Yahoo to accept its buyout offer or face a hostile takeover.
Microsoft declared it ...
Microsoft Messenger 7 brings Bonjour support, corporate AV features
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Dan Moren, Macworld.com Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (BU)
has announced the release of Messenger for Mac 7, its instant messaging
client. ...
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an apology, ...
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Yahoo Up Strong in Down Tape--Microsoft Going Hostile or Raising Bid?
By Henry Blodget
Yahoo's stock (YHOO) has staged a strong recovery this afternoon, rising steadily since mid-morning, when it dropped below $26. Is word leaking out that Microsoft (MSFT) is going hostile or raising its bid?
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Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7
By Scott McNulty
I use Messenger for corporate IM everyday, so I was excited to get by hands on this new version. Sadly, I can't seem to be able to log into my account using Messenger for Mac 7, so I'll have to take Microsoft's word on the new features. ...
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Ready To Rumble: Here’s Who Microsoft Will Bring To a Hostile ...
By Erick Schonfeld
Microsoft does not like to be rushed. Everyone is waiting for its next move, now that the deadline it set for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid expired last Saturday. And everyone can keep waiting. Nevertheless, preparations are being ...
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San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By John Boudreau One of the biggest players behind Microsoft's drive to buy Yahoo has never been at the bargaining table - Google. ...
Interop: Microsoft To Manage Linux, Unix Servers
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb Microsoft on Tuesday used Interop Las
Vegas 2008 as a platform to promote its openness and interoperability; two
components ...
Microsoft Helps Law Enforcement Get Around Encryption
PC World - USA
The growing use of encryption software -- like Microsoft's own
BitLocker -- by cyber criminals has led Microsoft to develop a set
of tools that law ...
eWeek - New York, NY
By Roy Mark Democrats may not know who their presidential candidate will be, but they at least have settled on Microsoft as the official software and HD web ...
Microsoft embraces and extends server promiscuity
Register - London,England,UK
Looking like he was nursing a cold, the Microsoft server and tools
chief was maybe talked out from his speech earlier in the day at the
Venetian hotel on ...
Vista struggles to bust out as business customers snub it
USA Today - USA
By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Will Weider is just the kind of customer
Microsoft (MSFT) needs to keep its Windows computer operating system
franchise ...
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Microsoft gives cops COFEE: free computer forensic tools
By Nilay Patel
Cops doing computer forensic work already have a ton of tools to choose from, but Microsoft is doing its part to help out as well -- the company just revealed that it's been distributing a special thumb drive to cops in 15 countries to ...
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Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source ...
By Zonker
Novell is working with Microsoft to help Microsoft cooperate and contribute to open source projects under open source licenses, and sticking with the existing standards to do so. Keen observers of the tech industry might note that this ...
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Microsoft could nominate proxy slate of directors for Yahoo: report
AFP -
NEW YORK (AFP) — Microsoft could make its next move against Yahoo
Wednesday with the software giant likely to try and replace Yahoo's
board of directors, ...
Microsoft eyes Yahoo retention plan: court papers
Reuters - USA
The $1.5 billion figure was discussed in a communication between the
general counsels of Microsoft and Yahoo, and came to light when a
lawyer representing ...
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Microsoft rides in to cross-platform systems management
By Matthew Aslett
While Microsoft’s focus on its making its applications (almost) exclusively available for its own software stack is understandable, I have often thought that in the systems management sector the strategy had the effect of restricting ...
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Microsoft reveals tactics in fresh run at Yahoo!
Times Online - UK
Microsoft has put together an alternative Yahoo! board after its
deadline for making a hostile bid for the group lapsed Microsoft,
the world's biggest ...
Microsoft postpones Service Pack updates
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Microsoft has delayed the distribution of its recent Service Packs
for Windows XP and Windows Vista by Windows Update. Service Pack 3 for
Windows XP was to ...
Microsoft Updates Tools to
InternetNews.com - USA
Microsoft kicks off its annual management conclave by touting public
betas of three management products. By Stuart J. Johnston: More stories by
this author: ...
Microsoft and Novell team up on Linux management
VNUNet.com - UK
Novell is working with Microsoft to develop advanced Linux
management platforms that will allow customers to simplify the management
of mixed IT ...
Provision Networks - Desktop Virtualization using Microsoft’s Hyper-V
ZDNet - USA
Quest’s Provision Networks announced that they were offering its Virtual
Access Suite for Microsoft Hyper-V-based environments at
Microsoft’s Management ...
The view from Microsoft's Live Mesh and Apple's .Mac
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Mac comes close, Microsoft Live Mesh hopes to take it all the way.
"What Live Mesh does is very simple: It keeps folders and RSS feeds
synchronized across ...
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Report: Microsoft mulls proxy fight for Yahoo
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Microsoft Corp. may launch a proxy fight for Yahoo Inc. as a way to
continue its hostile bid without fixing a firm bid price yet, according to
a report ...
Update: Microsoft postpones release of Windows XP SP3
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
April 29, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday postponed
the expected release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) after it found a
compatibility ...
The Magic Thumb Drive That Melts Microsoft Security
Wired News - USA
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators
can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been
used in crimes. ...
Clarizen Going After Microsoft Project Users
PC World - USA
Clarizen, like other small vendors in the on-demand project-management
software space, is trying to lure Microsoft Project customers.
...
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Microsoft developing ad-funded, senior PCs in UK
By Darren Murph
According to a BBC report stemming from a Digital Inclusion conference in London, Microsoft UK is aiming to develop a "senior PC" which will feature a simplistic interface and come tweaked to handle tasks such as managing prescriptions ...
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Microsoft plots new moves in Yahoo! war
Times Online - UK
Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, could make its
next move on Yahoo! as early as today, following the failure of the
companies to reach an ...
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
A compatibility glitch with the latest versions of Windows has thrust the spotlight onto a little known product from Microsoft's Dynamics line for mid-size ...
Microsoft Goes Hetero: Want To Manage Cross-platform Physical And ...
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb Microsoft Corp. wants to be the
vendor of choice when it comes to managing cross-platform physical and
virtual environments, ...
Microsoft: we'll keep 'chipping away' at Google
Times Online - UK
Microsoft has said that it will continue "chipping" away
at Google in the market for internet search, but warned that there would be
no magic bullet to ...
EFF Demands Microsoft Issue Refunds for MSN Music
PC Magazine - USA
by Chloe Albanesius The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday
demanded that Microsoft issue refunds for MSN Music Store purchases
that will be ...
Google CEO Schmidt: Enjoyed Working With Yahoo; Microsoft Wants ...
Washington Post - United States
Don't wait until 4:00 PM (ET) to get Eric Schmidt's views on
Microsoft-Yahoo and Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) declining rate of
growth. Schmidt was interviewed by ...
eWeek - New York, NY
By Jason Brooks Microsoft's financial health, which is wrapped up almost entirely on sales of fat clients running the latest Windows operating system with ...
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Microsoft Offers Price Increase Of $32-$33 For Yahoo Through WSJ ...
By Peter Kafka
Microsoft (MSFT) leaks news that it is willing to pay $32-$33 for Yahoo--in a last attempt to get Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders to pressure the board to sell. It adds that Yahoo's board wants "upper $30s." As at the start of this process, ...
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Seattle Times - United States
The Wall Street Journal's anonymous sources say Microsoft's board of directors is meeting now to weigh its next step in the Yahoo takeover drama. ...
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Microsoft may spend as much as $1.5 billion to retain Yahoo employees if the Internet search company's board accepts the software giant's $44.6 billion ...
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
In my new book on Microsoft's future, entitled Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era, I make a similar argument. ...
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
This week, as first reported by CNET News.com, Microsoft talked publicly about COFEE, its free Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. ...
Microsoft Finally Concedes On Windows-Linux Management
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Microsoft’s announcement of Linux extensions for Systems Center
settles an old debate I once had with Bill Gates. Four years ago, I
suggested Microsoft ...
Microsoft keeps silence on Yahoo deal after deadline passes
Xinhua - China
LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Xinhua) -- US software giant Microsoft Corp.
Tuesday continued to keep silence on its bid to acquire Yahoo Inc., three
days after the ...
5 Reasons Why Microsoft Should Walk Away
Motley Fool - USA
The game is about to turn, with analysts torn as to whether
Microsoft walks away, ups the ante, or launches a proxy battle to
take Yahoo! by storm. ...
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Microsoft Live Search Adds More Images, Multimap, Find My Location ...
By Barry Schwartz
Live Search has informed us that they have made a few enhancements to the search engine. The enhancements include an expanded image search index, a new integrated mapping experience with Multimap, a location based mobile search feature ...
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Microsoft Says They’ll Pay More
By Michael Arrington
Microsoft is leaking that they are willing to increase their Yahoo bid to as much as $33 per share, up from the original $31/share offer. That original offer, which included payment in Microsoft stock, has fallen in value to just ...
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Microsoft Photosynth gets the CSI treatment
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
Microsoft says it didn't pay for the use of its Photosynth technology during tonight's episode of "CSI: New York." It's just a natural result of its relationship with series creator Anthony Zuiker, and of his desire to use the latest ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By TODD BISHOP With Microsoft Corp.'s Yahoo acquisition bid stuck in an apparent stalemate, the Redmond company's board met Wednesday to weigh its options ...
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Xobni Walks Away From A Microsoft Deal
By Erick Schonfeld
After negotiating over the past few weeks with Microsoft and signing a letter of intent to be acquired, e-mail startup Xobni has walked from the deal, according to a source close to the negotiations. Xobni offers a plug-in for Outlook ...
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Report: Microsoft board meeting on Yahoo bid
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
More behind-the-scenes rumblings today in Microsoft's Yahoo bid: The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, reports this afternoon that Microsoft's board is meeting to consider its options today, and the company could announce ...
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Microsoft set to raise Yahoo! bid to $46.2bn
Times Online - UK
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, is said to be
willing to raise its offer for Yahoo!, the struggling internet portal, in
an attempt to appease ...
New York Times - United States
Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, in persuasion mode before a technology fair in March. Mr. Ballmer is said to have made calls recently with a ...
Don't be a cheapskate, Steve: Keeping XP won't hurt Microsoft's ...
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
[ If saving XP is revenue-neutral for Microsoft, keeping XP could
mean actual big savings for users, argues Galen Gruman. ] But to be honest,
as a Microsoft ...
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Microsoft Learns From Itself By Delaying XP SP3
PC World - USA
Microsoft deserves some recognition, sarcastic or not, because this
delay has proven that Microsoft is learning from its prior mistakes.
...
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Given the popularity of VMware and the rise of Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V, this year may become a "perfect storm" for this transition. ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Rich Barton, who led the Expedia spin off from Microsoft in 1999, said the software giant would be unable to create another vertical business on the scale ...
Seattle Times - United States
The lease will help alleviate a space crunch at Microsoft's Redmond campus, where a number of buildings are under construction, Gellos said. ...
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LIVE: Steve Ballmer Town Hall To Microsoft Employees
By Vasanth Sridharan
We're a couple of minutes late on the call, so we'll do our best to catch up. 9:06: Last quarter was an exciting quarter. I want to talk about what we accomplished. FY 08 we've got a LOT GOING ON. 9:08: Going over what happened in 1Q ...
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools
By Martin
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is a free application for the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP that provides functionality to edit the photo’s metadata. Metadata are information that are automatically added to digital images, ...
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Microsoft shows off Scry, Chicago data center video
By mstansberry
This week I sat down with Microsoft’s Senior Director of Data Center services, Michael Manos at the 2008 Uptime Symposium to talk about Scry, the company’s data center analytics tool that they touted at AFCOM. ...
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Into Digital Photography? Check out Microsoft Pro Photo Tools V1
By Brandon LeBlanc
Microsoft today has made available a new tool for photographers using Windows for their digital photos: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools V1. This application lets you quickly edit the metadata on digital photos you've shot with your camera ...
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Microsoft to be Bellevue's biggest employer
By toddb...@seattlepi.com (Todd Bishop)
A big new office lease is expected to make Microsoft the largest employer in the Eastside city adjacent to its hometown, a company spokesman says. Microsoft has leased City Center Plaza, a 26-story office tower under construction at ...
Microsoft's Bellevue footprint getting bigger still; excerpts from ...
The company is confirming today that it plans to lease the 26-story City Center Plaza, under construction at Northeast Sixth Street and 110th Avenue Northeast in downtown Bellevue. That would be on top of more than 1.3 million square ...
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Microsoft Chief Won't Bid `Dime Above' Yahoo's Value (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
By Amy Thomson May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive
Officer Steve Ballmer told employees today the software maker will still
walk away from ...
Microsoft Backpedals on Windows Updates
PC World - USA
Microsoft has withdrawn Vista SP1 from automatic delivery in the
wake of news that XP SP3 can cause data corruption in business apps.
...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
A big new office lease is expected to make Microsoft the largest employer in the Eastside city adjacent to its hometown, a company spokesman says. ...
Microsoft: What's Up?!?
Forbes - NY,USA
Time's running out for Microsoft to announce a new plan of
action for Yahoo! Last week, the software titan had said it would announce
this week how it will ...
Microsoft's Debt To Jerry Yang
Forbes - NY,USA
Word is that you are trying to wring a few more bucks out of
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) for your struggling Web
portal. ...
Microsoft Passes Buck to MSN Music Buyers on DRM Snafu
Wired News - USA
Microsoft's DRM-laden tracks allowed limited portability, but
owners who upgraded their computers or operating systems still needed to
reauthorize their ...
How can Microsoft overcome Vista’s lingering image problem?
ZDNet - USA
Microsoft and its hardware/software partners have done a lot in the
past 16 months to make Windows Vista a better operating system. ...
Microsoft releases new version of Web design tools
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Elizabeth Montalbano May 1, 2008 (IDG News Service) Microsoft
Corp. today unveiled a version of its tool set for Web and multimedia
designers that ...
Microsoft Hit With Patent Suit Over RoundTable
PC World - USA
A company that develops cameras that produce 360-degree videos is suing
Microsoft for alleged patent infringement in its RoundTable
conferencing product. ...
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WSJ: Ballmer Empowered to Talk or Walk by Microsoft Board
By John C Abell
The Microsoft board Wednesday gave CEO Steve Ballmer “broad discretion to either go hostile or abandon the Yahoo pursuit” but the company’s decision will probably not be made and announced until later this week, the Wall Street Journal ...
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Jolie-Pitt Clan Invades French Microsoft Compound
By G is for Gossip
Before they settle on any one property, the team has decided shack up with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at his Villa Maryland in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, France. Despite the couple having toted along four children, the photos of ...
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Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo, Journal reports
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as early as today, The
Wall Street Journal has reported. Citing unnamed sources familiar with the
matter, ...
Microsoft Faces Challenges in Expanding Strategy
CIO India - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
The company laid out its plans at its annual Microsoft Management
Summit (MMS) for a cross-platform enterprise data-center management
infrastructure that ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By TODD BISHOP Microsoft Corp. has leased another big office tower in Bellevue, cementing its future position as the city's largest employer. ...
Microsoft likely to turn hostile in Yahoo bid
Rediff - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Following developments on Thursday, Microsoft is likely to pursue a
hostile bid for Yahoo Inc takeover, people familiar with the proceedings
said. ...
Microsoft's Dithering, Exxon Divide, Berkshire Probe: Timshel
Bloomberg - USA
May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. has displayed Shakespearean
indecision in its takeover offer for Yahoo! Inc., and the hesitancy shows
the world's ...
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The Fantastic Five
By wrdblog
Select the part of the proposal that you need to follow-up on, click Create Microsoft Office Outlook Task, and a new Outlook task pops-up with the selected text in the body and the title of the document in the subject line. KABLAM! ...
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Examining Microsoft's and Yahoo's unspoken concerns
By Marc Andreessen
Microsoft and Yahoo will have to get approval from various US regulatory agencies, including some combination of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. This approval process will likely be rigorous, ...
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Microsoft may go hostile on Yahoo
By Jon
“After three months of pressing Yahoo to give up looking at alternatives and agree to a deal with Microsoft, Ballmer faces a potential setback. An accord with Google may spur Yahoo’s sales and give it a better chance of staying ...
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'Microsoft can do without Yahoo'
Times of India - India
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft can build a competitive online advertising
business without Yahoo but it "could just take more time," CEO
Steve Ballmer told the ...
Microsoft wants to help out in Linux management, too
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Bob Muglia, who handles servers and tools for Microsoft, has
announced a further expansion of system management at
Microsoft's Management Summit 2008. ...
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Still Unclear
FOXBusiness - USA
Even after a meeting of Microsoft's board of directors Wednesday
evening, the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft appears to be at a
stalemate, according to ...
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
In the 15 months since Windows Vista had its mainstream launch, Microsoft says it's made progress on a number of key metrics: things like application ...
'WSJ' Says Microsoft May Get Hostile With Yahoo
Editor & Publisher - USA
AP Taps Verve's Technology for Mobile News Network SEATTLE A report in
the Wall Street Journal says that Microsoft may go hostile in its
bid for Yahoo. ...