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THE EU regulators has decided that it is going to fine Microsoft up to ВЈ1m.
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Peter Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, found himself in the front line in the wake of the software giant's recent antipiracy controversy. He talks about his role at the company, and what's in store for the future.
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Jeffrey Harbers, who was one of Microsoft Corp.'s first employees, has died in a single-engine plane crash in Montana.
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Microsoft’s Research & Development department is investigating better uses for the camera on our cell phone. They are developing a technology which will allow snapshots taken by a cell phone camera to be used to search the Web.
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Windows Live Spaces screenshot provides a few clues about the new version. Looks like you can comment and tag photos, initiate a Windows Live Messenger session from within Spaces, see Msgr online status, and have more control over the title position.
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Microsoft is yet to announce release date and pricing of this keyboard. This should not have a gazillion bugs like their Windows Vista and Ms Office, it should be announced with accurate timelines.
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The European Commission is expected to hand down approximately 392 Million dollars worth of fines to Microsofts for it’s alleged non-compliance with antitrust sanctions dating back to December 15.
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This can be beneficial to Microsoft to determine which among the software are selling hotcake and given their history, they may well integrate this to their next software release. They are on a winning note here, they get paid by the vendors for the service and at the same time they become closer to their enemies.
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A company who has massive plans of moving over it’s dominant desktop position to web markets is making great strides in it’s organization to support this goal. I just hope they choose the right people for the right job, otherwise they may end up in a ditch.
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Microsoft slaps Google on the face with the launching of an online Microsoft Office 2007 for users to test drive the beta version product.
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Microsoft has decided to let users remove or disable the WGA notifications, but they didn’t make it easy! They could have made some simple tool that you could download or even a patch, but no they make you go through and do the dirty work.
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Obviously these two guys doesn’t know anything about the history of Microsoft whose philosophy for most part of its existence is to release software as fast as they can and deal with bugs with service packs.
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If you haven’t downloading Microsoft Office 2007 for test out the features of Office 2007, Here is a easy way , Microsoft offer a free testing on Microsoft office 2007 beta via online.
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Microsoft’s updated WGA Notifications package released on Tuesday was under fire because of the following reasons: 1. Annoying alerts of Windows Piracy Check 2. Pinging of Microsoft Server every system restart 3. To top it all, it was hidden alongside security fixes update that unknowingly made user’s computers into test beds
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Microsoft made the new 2007 Microsoft Office available online. No download needed to try it out.
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Merrill Lynch reports Microsoft should buy Yahoo in order to fend off Google. While I agree with this move, it would be interesting to look at the perils and long-term effects of a deal as big as this as Google may see this as an opportunity to fire from all cylinders while a honeymoon stage is taking it’s course for both jumbo companies.
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Microsoft employee really unloaded on his employer, and not in an anonymous blog, but on the company's own public developers site. The posting, entitled 'The World As Best As I Remember It', comes from programmer Philip Su, a Windows programmer for the past five years before moving to the Tablet PC product division. Wu lays blame at MS Managemen
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A top Microsoft executive responsible for marketing Windows Live — a major initiative the company spotlighted this week — has left under unusual cirtances. Microsoft confirmed Martin Taylor, named in March to be corporate vice president of Windows Live and MSN marketing, is gone after a 13-year career that included high-profile roles clo
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. sees the future and it is robots. The Seattle-based company on Tuesday previewed a set of new software tools that aims to give developers a simpler way to design robots and to create and test programs that operate a wide range of machines -- from toys to floor sweepers to those used in factory production lines.
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The team is proud to introduce the latest release of Windows Live Custom Domains for you to try out. Visit the new site at http://domains.live.com. We have worked hard to incorporate your feedback into this release, and want to thank all of you for trying our service during the Beta period.
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A private security company has found a way to nuke the controversial callback component in Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool.
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Microsoft Corp. today released Windows Live Messenger, available at http://get... one of the first of more than 20 new Windows Live services to launch globally over the course of the year. Windows Live Messenger features instant messaging, free PC-to-PC calls and inexpensive calls from a PC to phones around the world, vide
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Counterfeiters aren't Microsoft's only opponents in its effort to combat piracy: Some of its customers are against it, too.
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Martin Taylor, a key adviser to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has left the software maker.
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Attack code for a new security hole in Excel has surfaced on the Internet, just as Microsoft is scrambling to respond to a separate bug in the spreadsheet program.
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For a long time now, Microsoft has been touting the end of phone tag.
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Microsoft announces development of its own music and video device.
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Microsoft Atlas give developer easy ways to create ajax website. However, currently it doesnot support all browser. Some claim it failed in all browser. Some claim it success in four new control. So what do you think? is Microsoft able to make it cross browser? or Microsoft Atlas doesnot need to make it cross browser.
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Just as a friendly reminder, Microsoft is going to be ending all support for Service Pack 1 as of October 10th. That means there will no longer be any security updates so make sure to migrate over to SP2.
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Windows Live Messenger, which had been available in test form, will officially launch Tuesday. The free program is an upgrade to MSN Messenger, the previous name for the software maker's tool for quickly communicating online. Such products have become incredibly popular for a wide variety of audiences, from teens to business people.
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Part of the Microsoft France website, experts.microsoft.fr, was defaced on Sunday, by Turskish hackers. The hackers are claiming their next target will be Microsoft.com.
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Interesting artcle citing 10 mistakes Microsoft had, article comes out days after Gates calls it quits from MSFT in 2008.
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Apparently a Microsoft France subdomain http://experts.microsoft.fr/ has been hacked (cracked) by Turkish Hackers. They claim there next target will be Microsoft.com.
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A 0-Day vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Excel, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system
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This is an interesting article I found from Digg.
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It looks like Google is about to throw their hat into the 'single sign-on' arena, and I for one couldn't be more excited.
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There is a new search on Microsoft's TechNet.
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VistaTorrent, the bitTorrent tracker setup to help Microsoft distribute their Windows Vista Beta 2 ISO, has been shutdown by Microsoft.
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