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Thursday, December 7, 2006

Microsoft Offers Book Search
PC World - USA
Microsoft has developed a book-search service that will compete with a similar offering from Google while taking a more conservative approach to scanning works ...
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Microsoft/Dell team up on NAS/iSCSI array
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
December 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Dell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. ... Another first for Microsoft is the arrays' automated clustering capability. ...
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How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
ZDNet - USA
Until recently, when Microsoft execs have touted online services as key to the future of Microsoft, they've almost always meant Microsoft's "Live" services. ...
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UPDATE 1-Microsoft to ship over 10 mln Xbox 360 by year end
Reuters - USA
... LOS ANGELES, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. ... "This holiday, we expect to have sold in excess of 10 million units worldwide," a Microsoft spokeswoman said. ...
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Microsoft warns of new Word vulnerability
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
A yet-to-be-patched security hole in multiple versions of Word is being exploited in cyberattacks, Microsoft warned late on Tuesday in the US. ...
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Microsoft Offers Timetable For Open XML Support In Office For Mac
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... Microsoft has taken the offensive against bloggers that criticized the software maker for failing to release converters that would provide support for the ...
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Microsoft: We WILL Sell 10 Million 360s!
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USA
Will Microsoft "win" this generation? According to Microsoft rage-aholic and problem perspirer Steve Ballmer, who once said to Fortune ...
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Microsoft Issues Word Zero-Day Exploit Alert
FOX News - USA
By Ryan Naraine. Microsoft on Dec. 5 warned that an unpatched vulnerability in its Word software program is being used in targeted, zero-day attacks. ...
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Greens slam Microsoft's OLPC moves
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
THE GREEN PARTY IN THE UK has accused Microsoft of "unacceptable bribery" in trying to put Windows on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. ...
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Microsoft's Zune will work with consumer Vista at launch
MarketWatch - USA
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Zune digital music device will work with the consumer brand of its Vista operating system when that version ...
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Monday, November 27, 2006

How would you fix Microsoft's Windows-development problems?
ZDNet - USA
By now, everyone’s heard Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer’s repeated pronouncement that Microsoft will never again take five years to deliver a new version ...
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Microsoft Meets EU Deadline, More Fines Still Possible
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... European Union antitrust regulators last week confirmed that Microsoft had met the Thanksgiving Day deadline for submitting revisions to the technical ...

Microsoft on wrong side of Korean patent ruling
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
The Supreme Court of Korea has upheld the validity of a patent that could prevent Microsoft from selling copies of Microsoft Office in South Korea. ...
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Microsoft Zune Customers Unhappy
GameSHOUT - USA
Microsoft takes on a "dorky" image while Apple becomes more, (dare I say it?), mainstream. Did Microsoft really think they were ...
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Tasty Microsoft leftovers from Thanksgiving weekend
ZDNet - USA
Here’sa quick survey of some of the Microsoft news from the past few days about which I didn’t have a chance to blog. After ...
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Microsoft responds to Xbox Live video marketplace problems
TG Daily - USA
... not receiving a downloaded piece of content, or receiving something different than what they purchased, will receive a full refund of their Microsoft Points if ...
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Can Microsoft Retool for Web?
Wall Street Journal - USA
Microsoft Corp. ... The crux of the issue is how Microsoft's signature Windows product should adapt to the Internet, and to rivals such as Google Inc. ...
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Zune Reinforces Microsoft's Dorky Image
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... With a little help from Microsoft's wannabe music player, Zune. Zune ... glasses. But Microsoft has managed to create its own version. ...
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Security from A to Z: Microsoft
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Natasha Lomas. Microsoft's role in unwittingly creating a hole for the security industry to fill cannot be underestimated. By ...
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Can Microsoft morph Windows into an Internet service?
ZDNet - USA
Even before Google hired away from Microsoft one of the preeminent developers of Windows a couple of years ago, speculation over when and whether Google might ...
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Korean court rebuffs Microsoft in patents case
Register - London,England,UK
Microsoft has taken another slap from the authorities in Korea, after a court decision in a patent dispure raised the prospect of Office being taken off the ...


Friday, July 7, 2006
Microsoft Adds Privacy Folder To Windows
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Microsoft Private Folder 1.0, an add-on to Windows XP for storing private documents and files, has some enterprise administrators squawking. ...
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Microsoft Developing Keyboard for Vista, Windows Live
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
Microsoft’s hardware division is developing a slim wireless keyboard that will make it easier for users to access Windows Live services and features in its ...

Microsoft's iPod Killer Plan
PC Magazine - USA
Years ago, I predicted Microsoft would walk away from the X-Box platform (just as it had done with other doomed hardware ventures: sound cards, wireless ...
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More on Microsoft and Open Document
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, offers his take on Microsoft's new project for converting between Office and OpenDocument files. ...
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Microsoft under fire over software alert
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Thousands of computer users say they are being wrongly accused by Microsoft of owning pirated software, it has emerged. Surfers ...
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Vaughn-Nichols: Microsoft Not Telling Whole Truth About ODF ...
FOX News - USA
Oh no, Microsoft isn't. The Redmond crew has an entirely different agenda for "supporting" the OpenDocument Format with its own Open XML Translator. ...
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Apple tarred with Microsoft's WGA brush
iTWire - Australia
... Of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) debacle, iTwire commented that "[it] appears to be a combination of the software [Microsoft] is using, its ...
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Microsoft's Doomed WGA Tactics
PC World - USA
So Microsoft has stirred things up again, this time with a little program called WGA Notifications that they've been distributing via Automatic Updates. ...
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Can Microsoft ever meet the EU's standards for interoperability?
TG Daily - USA
... conclusion that members of the European Commission, in what is being called a "debate" scheduled for next Wednesday, will levy a fine against Microsoft of €2 ...
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Microsoft's iPod Killer Plan
ABC News - USA
Years ago, I predicted Microsoft would walk away from the Xbox platform (just as it had done with other doomed hardware ventures: sound cards, wireless ...
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Yasmin named Microsoft MD
Business Times - Malaysia - Malaysia
YASMIN Mahmood has been appointed managing director (MD) of Microsoft (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd effective early September 2006. Yasmin ...
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