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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
Slashdot - USA
bfwebster writes "Microsoft has lost its appeal to remove class-action status for the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit that has already resulted in some embarrassing ...
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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 ...

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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. ...

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"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
By liquidat
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 a speech in ...

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?
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Microsoft swears it's embracing open standards - really!
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Mixed Verdict: Microsoft Limits Market’s Gains
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US STOCKS-Market falls on Microsoft's results, oil's jump
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Microsoft Completes FAST Purchase
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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
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US STOCKS-Market falls on Microsoft, consumer confidence
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Microsoft’s Vista Problem
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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
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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
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Microsoft's Numbers Fall Short of 'Street' Expectations
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Wall Street trades mixed on weak consumer confidence, Microsoft's ...
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Microsoft falls on weak forecasts
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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
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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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Microsoft's Live Mesh: Web Fabric With Loose Threads
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Microsoft's Xbox group enjoys second quarter of profit
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Microsoft deadline looms for Yahoo
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Reply to Update: Good and bad news...
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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
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Microsoft shares fall on 4Q outlook, weak Windows sales
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Next Move in the Microsoft-Yahoo Battle: Analysts, Wall Street ...
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo
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What's Driving Microsoft's Strategy
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Some Suggestions to Have a Better Microsoft Community
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Reveal Truth About Microsoft License / Promotion Deals
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Dear Microsoft: Please stay dorky. It's who you are...and it works.
By CK (Christina Kerley)
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Microsoft/Yahoo Deadline Passes With No Deal
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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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'Hundreds of thousands' of Microsoft web servers hacked. FAIL
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Rate uncertainty hangs over US stocks
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Microsoft: Listen to Your Heart (And Ignore the Bean Counters)
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Microsoft deadline for Yahoo deal passes in silence
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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
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Microsoft’s Google goggles
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</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
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Microsoft denies mass hack caused by software fault
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THE WEEK IN STOCKS: Street has two winning weeks in a row
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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.
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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?
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Microsoft offers assistance to combat mass SQL injection
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Microsoft Disappoints; Windows Sales Off
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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 ...
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Microsoft/Yahoo Deadline Passes With No Deal
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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
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Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties
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Ballmer suggests XP might stay while PC makers flout Microsoft
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Microsoft Paper: Improving Search Results By Mining Web Surfing ...
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What will Microsoft do about Yahoo?
By Franklin Paul
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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?
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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 ...
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The Market Story Stocks Crawl as Market Chews on Data
TheStreet.com - USA
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 Blodget to ...

Microsoft: Massive site attacks not our fault
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Yahoo shares edge down, following Microsoft deadline expiration
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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, Yahoo aren't talking as investors await next move
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Partners To Microsoft: Stop Bashing Vista
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Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
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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
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. will be the official software and HD web content provider for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. ...

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. ...

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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
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Microsoft
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Seven Reasons You Can’t Bury Microsoft
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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
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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
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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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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
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Product review: Microsoft Response Point 1.0
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Falling Microsoft Income Endangers Yahoo Bid
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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
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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
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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)
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Vodafone, Microsoft to launch SMS search service in India
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HN: Microsoft wants to buy Czech portal Seznam.cz
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Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
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Microsoft drops price of Xbox 360 in Asia
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Microsoft Very Quiet, but Something Is Happening
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Microsoft delays release of Windows XP SP3
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Microsoft System Center gets cross-platform support
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Yahoo maintains silence
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Microsoft Messenger 7 brings Bonjour support, corporate AV features
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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
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Interop: Microsoft To Manage Linux, Unix Servers
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Microsoft Helps Law Enforcement Get Around Encryption
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Vista struggles to bust out as business customers snub it
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Microsoft gives cops COFEE: free computer forensic tools
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Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source ...
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Microsoft could nominate proxy slate of directors for Yahoo: report
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Microsoft rides in to cross-platform systems management
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Microsoft reveals tactics in fresh run at Yahoo!
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Microsoft postpones Service Pack updates
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Microsoft Updates Tools to
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Microsoft and Novell team up on Linux management
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Provision Networks - Desktop Virtualization using Microsoft’s Hyper-V
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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
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Report: Microsoft mulls proxy fight for Yahoo
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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
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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
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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
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Microsoft developing ad-funded, senior PCs in UK
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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
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Microsoft: we'll keep 'chipping away' at Google
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EFF Demands Microsoft Issue Refunds for MSN Music
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Google CEO Schmidt: Enjoyed Working With Yahoo; Microsoft Wants ...
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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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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 ...

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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
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Microsoft keeps silence on Yahoo deal after deadline passes
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Microsoft Live Search Adds More Images, Multimap, Find My Location ...
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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 ...

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Microsoft Learns From Itself By Delaying XP SP3
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Microsoft deserves some recognition, sarcastic or not, because this delay has proven that Microsoft is learning from its prior mistakes. ...

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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. ...

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LIVE: Steve Ballmer Town Hall To Microsoft Employees
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...

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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)
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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. ...

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Microsoft likely to turn hostile in Yahoo bid
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Following developments on Thursday, Microsoft is likely to pursue a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc takeover, people familiar with the proceedings said. ...

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The Fantastic Five
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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
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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
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“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'
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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
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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
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