Saturday, 23 April 2011

News: Microsoft

News10 new results for Microsoft
 
More Money Could Make Microsoft Employees Stick
E-Commerce Times
By Erika Morphy Microsoft may be lacking the cool factor, but it apparently wants to make up for that with thicker pay envelopes. That's good news for its huge army of employees, and it's a good sign that things are looking up in the tech job market ...
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Why Xbox Kinect could be -- but won't be -- the future of TV
CNN
That's why we're so impressed with the growing selection of online video that's available on Microsoft's Xbox 360 and its motion-sensing Kinect interface. Kinect could very well represent the future of how people watch TV: Zipping from channel to ...
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CNN
Microsoft: 350 million Windows 7 licenses sold in 18 months
TechSpot
By Emil Protalinski, TechSpot.com Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses so far, meaning it is still the fastest-selling operating system. Windows 7 has been available to the masses for 18 months. ...
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Might Microsoft be interested (again) in buying Yahoo?
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Yahoo's board of directors might finally be open to the idea of an acquisition – or at least another change in leadership – and the most likely scenario involves Microsoft, All Things Digital reports. Sources are telling ATD's Kara Swisher that several ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Paul Allen says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn't dispute facts in Idea Man
CNET (blog)
by Jay Greene Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, who portrays the company's current chief executive Steve Ballmer as scheming in his new book, says that Ballmer, in a conversation two weeks ago, confirmed Allen's account of the events. ...
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CNET (blog)
Microsoft Lifts From Android For Windows 8 Log-On (MSFT, GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
Microsoft is revamping the next version of Windows to work better on touch screen tablets. Since tablets generally don't come with a hardware keyboard, using touch patterns to log on seems like a necessary improvement. Using touch to log-on is one of ...
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Bypassing Microsoft, Again
Wall Street Journal
The historical significance of Apple passing Microsoft in market capitalization last spring wasn't lost on anyone. Now Microsoft is in danger of being passed by International Business Machines, an event arguably as rich in irony as last year's passing ...
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Microsoft Makes an Big Data Play with Project Barcelona
ReadWriteWeb
Project Barcelona, a new project in the works from Microsoft, will give enterprises Web crawler-like tools for searching and storing information. The crawlers will search Microsoft products such as SQL Server, Excel and SharePoint and extra metadata. ...
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Wall St Week Ahead: It's growth, but not as we know it
Reuters
Companies like Microsoft, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola, unloved on Wall Street, could turn out to be good buys if they can show they justify higher valuations than investors are now willing to give them. "If you see these Cokes and Pepsis and these kinds of ...
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Reuters
Microsoft Cloud-Based Apps Pass FISMA Scrutiny
Redmondmag.com
By Kurt Mackie Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its cloud-based suite of applications has passed muster for government use per Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards. Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite for the ...
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Blogs5 new results for Microsoft
 
Microsoft patent application shows custom Kinect gestures, roaming ...
By Dana Wollman
Since Kinect entered the world, modders have been hacking it for everything from playing Tetris to controlling a web browser. And really, Microsoft n.
We Right Resumes | RecruitersBook.com - http://www.engadget.com/
Microsoft Has Sold 350 Million Copies Of Windows 7
By Devin Coldewey
Congratulations to Microsoft, who somehow in the face of teasing from very important bloggers like us, has managed to sell quite a few ...
CrunchGear - http://www.crunchgear.com/
Microsoft expands Bing Rewards to US homepage - TNW Microsoft
By Alex Wilhelm
In a bid to boost the appeal of Bing to users of every stripe, Microsoft has moved the popular Bing Rewards program out of its walled garden and into its homepage on every modern browser in the US. The move follows what Microsoft claims ...
The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/
Neowin.net - Microsoft targets Google Docs
By Paul Ferson
News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support.
Neowin.net - http://www.neowin.net/
Microsoft patents custom Kinect profiles | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
The Kinect has been used in over 101 different applications and new ways to use the motion controller are being [...]
Ubergizmo - http://www.ubergizmo.com/

Web1 new result for Microsoft
 
Paul Allen, the 'Idea Man,' Offers His Version of Microsoft's ...
Of his bitter feelings years ago and clashes with Bill Gates, Mr. Allen said, "I got over it. And then we went on. I think we've both mellowed."
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/technology/18allen.html

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