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Microsoft: IE9 Adoption Rate Five Times Higher Than IE8′s
WebProNews
Internet Explorer 9 got off to a good start in terms of impressing reviewers, and it's also doing rather well in terms of winning over users, according to new data from Microsoft. A Microsoft employee indicated this morning that IE9′s early adoption ...
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EC enters talks with Microsoft for new licenses
Computerworld
By Jennifer Baker IDG News Service - The European Commission has confirmed that it has entered into talks with Microsoft with the aim of keeping its licensing agreement for Windows. The current deal with Microsoft is set to expire on May 31 and the ...
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U.N. Taps Microsoft for Green Data Center Tech
GigaOm
By Katie Fehrenbacher Apr. 1, 2011, 9:29am PT No Comments The United Nations has opted to use Microsoft's green pre-fab "data center in a box" technology for its new office in Nairobi. Dubbed ITPAC (IT pre-assembled components), the technology can ...
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Windows Phone 7 users download 12 apps a month, says Microsoft
The Guardian (blog)
Microsoft may be keeping its cards close to its chest on sales of Windows Phone 7 handsets, but the company has released some stats on its smartphone operating system, with the aim of persuading app developers to throw their weight behind it. ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Ballmer Out, Gates Back In at Microsoft
Redmondmag.com
By Chris Paoli In an unscheduled conference call with Microsoft's board of directors this morning, company CEO Steve Ballmer announced he will be stepping down after previous CEO and founder Bill Gates expressed interest in returning. ...
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Microsoft MIX 11: Top 11 Draws for Developers
eWeek
By Darryl K. Taft on 2011-04-01 Developers can expect to be first-class citizens at Microsoft's MIX 2011 conference, also known as MIX11. Running April 12-14 at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, MIX will be a gathering of developers, designers, ...
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eWeek
Microsoft builds low-cost datacentre switch
ZDNet UK
By Jack Clark (@mappingbabel), ZDNet UK, 1 April, 2011 17:06 Microsoft researchers have developed a low-cost switch, designed to be easily reprogrammable for testing a range of datacentre networks. The $400 (£250) ServerSwitch card is programmable via ...
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Why did Google drop support for Microsoft .WMA audio files from Android 3.0 ...
Computerworld (blog)
Microsoft has begun a legal assault on Android, so it's possible that Google did this as a result of those suits. There's also the possibility that it's a pure business decision, an attempt by Google to squash Windows media formats, and so sideline ...
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Google vs. Microsoft on Monopoly Complaint
Beacon Equity Research
The company now has to face a new complaint lodged by Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), which has alleged that the Internet search company is taking actions to thwart the competition in the online search area. Microsoft stated that it had to file the complaint ...
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Windows Phone Will Beat iPhone Next Year
infoSync World
Microsoft late last year introduced the new Windows Phone, or at least that's what the company claimed it was doing. It turns out that Windows Phones like the HTC HD7 and Samsung Focus are internally referred to as "KIN on Steroids", while the actual ...
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Microsoft Blames Poor Development Practices For Security Risks
InformationWeek
Windows and Internet Explorer are at greater risk of attacks because developers don't use mitigation technologies built into the software, said Microsoft. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Too few applications and browser plug-ins are implementing ...
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InsFocus Recertified as a Microsoft Partner - ISV
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
InsFocus announced today that it has once again received Microsoft Partner status, with a specific competency of Independent Software Vendor (ISV). InsFocus has been a Microsoft provider since 2004 and was first certified as a Certified Partner in 2006 ...
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Google, Microsoft may look to buy Conduit
Bizjournals.com
Conduit is being courted by companies that include Google and Microsoft, according to reports Friday. The San Mateo-based company, which has operations in Israel, has said it would not consider a sale for less than $1 billion, All Things Digital ...
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Microsoft Sees SMBs Moving to the Cloud
CMSWire
By David Roe (@druadh20) | Apr 1, 2011 Tweet As we promised earlier in the week, let's take another quick look at Microsoft's SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011. While the full report has not been made public — although Microsoft (news, site) promises to ...
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Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6
ZDNet (blog)
One of them is "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6", by Augusto Alvarez. I was impressed by how the material was organized and the step-by-step approach to managing Microsoft's application virtualization product. ...
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Microsoft Approves Gemalto's NFC Mobile Payment Technology
Banktech
By Penny Crosman MasterCard this week certified Gemalto's mobile payment application for its PayPass NFC contactless mobile payment scheme. Gemalto's software stores security PINs and card information, allows wireless account management, ...
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Shocker from Redmond: Microsoft turns to Linux
InfoWorld
By Doug Dineley | InfoWorld Microsoft has ceased development of the Windows operating system and will be releasing its own Linux distribution, the company revealed in an SEC filing yesterday. The annual 10-K report disclosed plans for the development ...
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Cloud fight! Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Google Docs vs. Microsoft Skydrive
ITworld.com
How does this compare with existing offerings from Google and Microsoft? The short answer is: not very well. If you need to store large files (more than a gigabyte, say) but not too many of them, then Amazon is worth a closer look. ...
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iPad Apps for Microsoft Partners, Editor's Cut: Here Are 24 More
Redmond Channel Partner
Some are free, others are expensive, but all have potential for integration into Microsoft partner-provided solutions. By Scott Bekker When Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs last month took the wraps off the company's second-generation iPad 2 with an upgraded ...
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Microsoft Using Kinect to Manage Data Centers
Data Center Knowledge
Continuing to break new ground with its data center tools, Microsoft said today that it had customized its management software to work with one of the company's other high-profile technologies – the Kinect gaming controller. ...
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Data Center Knowledge
Biz Break: In Tesla, the next American auto icon? Plus: Microsoft vs. Google
San Jose Mercury News
Plus: Microsoft complains about Google (GOOG). And: Real estate update, Silicon Valley tech stocks. Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock skyrocketed today after a Morgan Stanley analyst suggested the Palo Alto company could benefit from a shift to electric ...
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All-in-one business smartphone Nokia E7 now available
Philippine Star
For business users, the Nokia E7 provides direct, secure and real-time access to e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks and the corporate directory through Microsoft Exchange servers, as well as Office Communicator Mobile, developed by Microsoft for Nokia ...
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Microsoft Planning Xbox 360 Kinect Hybrid?
ITProPortal
Microsoft has already started work on the successor to the Kinect and sources close to the project have confirmed that the Kinect 2 may actually contain an embedded version of the Xbox 360. The move would not only slash the cost of an Xbox 360 bundle ...
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ITProPortal
Microsoft releases Office 366 update
InfoWorld
By Pete Babb | InfoWorld Hoping to get out in front of a potentially disastrous programming flaw, Microsoft released today Office 366, an updated version of its Office 365 hosted services that will function properly during leap years. ...
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Apple, Google & Microsoft Sued for Patent Infringement
GizmoCrave
In an interesting turn of events, a firm named HW Technology has sued 32 major high tech companies – including big fishes like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft – for patent infringement. The lawsuit adds Nokia and RIM also into the list of the ...
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GizmoCrave
Microsoft Word 5.1 Returns... to the iPad
TidBITS
by Tonya Engst Long ago, a group of veteran Microsoft developers collaborated on a project to "carbonize" Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Macintosh, enabling it to run natively under Mac OS X (see "Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X," 1 April 2003). ...
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A Year Later: 3 Reasons Why Xbox Kinect Is Better Than The PlayStation Move
Skatter Tech
At the time, the devices had not yet hit stores and we could only speculate whether Sony or Microsoft would be able to steal casual gamers away from Nintendo. Now that both accessories have been in the hands of consumers, developers, and hackers for ...
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Skatter Tech
Microsoft rumored to add NFC to smartphones
Business Review USA
Now Microsoft is joining the league of brands who are reaching out to NFC technology in its smartphones; Apple and Google have already been rumored in developing these technologies on their smartphone operating systems. News outlets have reported that ...
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JPMorgan, J&J, Toyota, Microsoft, Rajaratnam in Court News
Bloomberg
By Elizabeth Amon - Fri Apr 01 12:50:14 GMT 2011 "The issue of JPMC's misconduct belongs before the bankruptcy court as the court most versed in the nuances of the Ponzi scheme and the roles of other, related wrongdoers in that scheme," Irving Picard, ...
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Microsoft Adjusts Volume Licensing To Aid Customer Migrations To Cloud Computing
CRN
By Rick Whiting, CRN Microsoft is implementing a new volume licensing plan to help customers transition to cloud computing. Under the Volume Licensing Mobility plan that will be effective July 1, 2011, volume licensing customers will be able to deploy ...
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Blogs15 new results for Microsoft
 
Microsoft removes Imagewind from Marketplace, WP7 gets first ...
By Tim Stevens
Oh, sure, it was easy to pick on Apple for all those frustrating App Store rejections over the years, but Google's had its own run-ins.
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/
Morning Tech Wrap: Google, Microsoft, Samsung - Parmy Olson ...
By Parmy Olson
Google has said it's not surprised Microsoft filed its first major antitrust complaint against it yesterday, claiming among other things that the search giant unfairly limited other rival companies in its indexed results.
Disruptors - http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/
JURIST - Paper Chase: Microsoft to file anti-competition complaint ...
By Dan Taglioli
Microsoft claims Google has engaged in "a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative" to Google's products and services in Europe, where it controls over 90 percent of the search ...
Paper Chase - http://jurist.org/paperchase/
Microsoft celebrates Windows Phone 7 anniversary with impressive ...
By Zach Epstein
Microsoft first took the wraps off its Windows Phone 7 platform at its MIX10 conference in March 2010. At that time, Microsoft began a long and important process of courting developers, distributing developer tools and giving interested ...
BGR - http://www.bgr.com/
'Shoe on the other foot': Microsoft takes on Google's business ...
By Nick Eaton
The European Union's competition commission – with which Microsoft is quite familiar – opened an investigation into Google in December. Before this week, Microsoft was less directly involved as owner of the Ciao shopping site, ...
The Microsoft Blog - http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/
Microsoft Complaint Outlines 6 Reasons Why Google is a Monopoly ...
By Brent Rangen
Microsoft today filed a formal complaint in Brussels accusing Google of curating a monopoly of the search market and unfairly promoting their own products. The chief concerns from Microsoft is the monopolization of YouTube indexing, ...
Search Engine Watch Blog - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/
Microsoft Watch - Desktop & Mobile - Windows Phone 7 Numbers That ...
By Nicholas Kolakowski
What numbers matter to Microsoft? Windows Phone Developer Tools have been downloaded some 1.5 million times. The Windows Phone developer community boasts 36000 members. The Windows Phone 7 ecosystem contains around 11500 applications. ...
Microsoft Watch - http://www.microsoft-watch.com/
Microsoft brags about 11500 Windows Phone 7 apps. Do the numbers ...
By Preston Gralla
Microsoft today bragged that 11500 Windows Phone 7 apps are available.
Computerworld Blogs - Applications - http://blogs.computerworld.com/taxonomy/term/8/0
Hey, Google, Microsoft payback is a bitch | Tech Policy & Law News ...
By Joe Wilcox
Two years ago, Joe Wilcox warned Google that anticompetitive accusations it made against Internet Explorer would someday be returned about search. What goes around comes around, and Microsoft proves the point by filing an antitrust ...
Betanews - http://www.betanews.com/
Microsoft: Joins The Also Rans With Antitrust Complaint
By Matt Rosoff
Former Microsoft manager Charles Fitzgerald quickly picked up on a quote about the lawsuit from MIT's Michael Cusumano in the New York Times and tweeted it: " The company that was the 800-pound gorilla is now resorting to antitrust, ...
Business Insider - http://www.businessinsider.com/
Microsoft, Apple Announce xPad 360 Tablet - Technabob
By Technabob
BREAKING: In a surprise move, rivals Apple and Microsoft put aside their petty differences, and today announced a new handheld gaming platform, combining the best of the iPad and Xbox 360 systems.
Technabob - http://technabob.com/
Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 Readiness Planning Guide v2.0 ...
By ukdynamics
I am pleased to announce the latest version of the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Partner Readiness Planning Guide. The planning guide is attached and available on and PartnerSource. The latest version of the planning guide includes: ...
MSDN Blogs - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/
Microsoft Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google in Europe ...
By Mark Hefflinger
Brussels - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has submitted an antitrust complaint against Google (NASD: GOOG) to the European Commission, alleging among other things that the search giant has limited competitors' access to its YouTube property. ...
Digital Media Wire - connecting... - http://www.dmwmedia.com/
Free Microsoft Points – Save Your Money — Free Press Release List
By caingrimshaw243
Microsoft Points are the currency if-you-will of the XBox Live Marketplace with Microsoft Points, you can obtain total variations of arcade games, downloadable subject matter for games and a lot much more. Microsoft Points erase the ...
Free Press Release List - http://www.freepressreleaselist.com/
Microsoft demonstrates Bing's HTML5 preview [video] | WinRumors
By Tom Warren
Yusuf Mehdi, Senior VP of Microsoft's Online Audience Business, demonstrated the new features during Microsoft's Imagine 2011 conference earlier this week. Microsoft has posted a number of videos from the demonstration. ...
WinRumors - http://www.winrumors.com/

Web5 new results for Microsoft
 
Windows Phone 7 Updates - Microsoft Corporation
All Microsoft Sites|. United States · Windows Phone · Discover · Windows Phone 7 · Windows Phone 6.5 · For business · Buy · Windows Phone 7 · Windows Phone ...
www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/.../whats-next.aspx
Microsoft Accusing Google of Antitrust Violations - NYTimes.com
Microsoft is joining a chorus of complaints saying that Google's search engine unfairly promotes its own products, like Google Product Search.
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/technology/.../31google.html
Microsoft takes on Google with antitrust complaint - Digg
Microsoft has upped the ante in its bitter rivalry with Google by filing its first formal complaint to regulators, claiming the search engine giant is ...
digg.com/.../microsoft_takes_on_google_with_antitrust_comp...
Microsoft: Paid $11 Apiece For Internet Addresses
This is what happens when the Internet runs out of space.
www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-just-bought-600000-inter...
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