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Microsoft Store mirrors popular concept of its rival
Blink an eye, and the Microsoft Store could be mistaken for an Apple Store. The sign over the doorway has no letters, only a Windows logo...
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Microsoft CFO to exit after tough year of cost-cutting
Almost 12 months after Microsoft slid into the worst economic recession in the company's history, the company's Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said he is leaving and ready to be more than a numbers guy.
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A Bing deal for Microsoft, News Corp.?
Microsoft has been in early discussions about a pact to pay News Corp. to remove links to its news content from Google's search engine and display them exclusively on Microsoft's Bing. If such an arrangement came to pass, it would be a watershed ...
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NYT's Kristof calls for Bing boycott over censored search results in China
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Microsoft's Bing reportedly talking to News Corps about paying for content
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Glass half full for Microsoft shareholders
Capping off one of the most difficult fiscal years in its history, Microsoft held its annual shareholders meeting with the backdrop of an economy that has at least stopped getting worse.
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Livetweeting the Microsoft shareholders meeting at 8 a.m.
I will be livetweeting the Microsoft shareholders meeting at 8 a.m. today. They are meeting at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. You can follow me in the right corner of the Pri0 blog or at www.twitter.com/sharonpianchan.
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Microsoft Office 2010 beta ready to download
If you want to try out Microsoft Office 2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the company announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.
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Future bright for Microsoft cloud computing, server president says
All this week at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft has talked about cloud computing, what many consider the next frontier.
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Microsoft PDC09: Office 2010 beta is out, plus a preview of Office Web Apps
LOS ANGELES -- If you want to try out Office 2010, the beta is now available by download for anyone. You can get it here. Office Web Apps, Microsoft's online competitor to Google, will also be available for anyone to preview who downloads the 2010 beta.
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Microsoft PDC09: Silverlight Beta 4 now available
LOS ANGELES -- Four months after releasing Silverlight 3, Microsoft is making Silverlight 4 available for beta testing. You can find it here.
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Microsoft PDC09: Internet Explorer 9 is coming
LOS ANGELES -- Windows President Steve Sinofsky gave some details on the development of the next version of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 9.
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Livetweeting Microsoft PDC09 keynote at 8:30 a.m.
LOS ANGELES -- I will be livetweeting today's keynote featuring Windows President Steve Sinofsky at 8:30 a.m. You can either look in the top right corner of the Microsoft Pri0 blog for the Twitter feed, or you can follow me on Twitter at ...
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Mood should be merrier at Microsoft shareholders meeting
This week's annual shareholders meeting, on Thursday, comes during an upswing for the software company.
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Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud-computing platform goes live Jan. 1
In a major game changer for both the industry and the company, Microsoft has launched its cloud.
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Microsoft PDC09: Ray Ozzie puts the clouds in my coffee
LOS ANGELES -- Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, talked up cloud computing this morning in his opening keynote at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference this morning.
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E-mail from Paul Allen's sister on his lymphoma
In case you didn't see it Monday, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Livetweeting the Microsoft PDC09 keynote at 8:30 a.m.
LOS ANGELES -- I am back in my hometown of Los Angeles for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. I will be livetweeting the 8:30 a.m. keynotes today featuring Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia, head of the Server and Tools ...
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Apple store goes on hiatus as Microsoft store opens
The Apple store shut its doors for a remodeling in The Shops at Mission Viejo, just as Microsoft announced plans to open a store in the same mall in Orange County, Calif.
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Paul Allen diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
The Microsoft co-founder "is feeling OK and remains upbeat," a message from his sister said.
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Want to lose 10 pounds? Try Microsoft's Bing and Wolfram Alpha
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Microsoft to buy SourceGear assets
Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will buy some assets of SourceGear LLC that will bolster its software design products.
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Microsoft's job cuts 'complete' — for now
Microsoft reminded Seattle on Wednesday it's cutting more jobs than expected in a broad, cost-cutting program that began in January, the first major layoffs in its 34-year history.
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Microsoft to do major revamp of MSN site
In the first redo in a decade, Microsoft is introducing a wide-ranging redesign of its MSN Web site that's aimed at refreshing the portal and capturing broad trends of online use.
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Microsoft's MSN gets a makeover -- and how
Microsoft's MSN Web site has been around a long time. And some - even some at Microsoft - would say it looks it.
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Microsoft CEO: IT spending won't fully recover
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday corporate spending on information technology will not recover to levels seen in recent years before the global economic slowdown.
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Movie replaces Microsoft in sponsoring Fox's 'Family Guy' special
Fox network says an upcoming movie has stepped in for Microsoft to sponsor next Sunday's "Family Guy" special.
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Touting tech tools of the future
While most people were turning their clocks backward over the weekend, Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie was moving his forward, five to 10 years in the future.
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Microsoft cancels sponsorship of "Family Guy" show
Variety is reporting that Microsoft has pulled its sponsorship of the "Family Guy" show scheduled for Nov. 8.
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Microsoft beats profit forecast
Microsoft's profit for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 beat analysts' expectations, boosted by strong sales of Windows and Xboxes, as well as cuts in operating expenses. Even though sales fell from the same period a year ago, the company said it had ...
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Apple ads: Switch to a Mac instead of Microsoft Windows 7
Apple launched three television ads to squash the publicity bump for Windows 7.
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Microsoft earnings: Bottom may have passed, division details from conference call
Microsoft, in its first quarter earnings call this morning, says the company may have passed the bottom of the economy.
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Microsoft earnings: Webcast starting at 7:30 a.m.
Here is the link to the Webcast.
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Microsoft earnings: Sales decline, profit better than expected
NEW YORK -- While Microsoft's sales continued to fall in financial results, the software company reported profits that exceeded expectations.
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Windows 7 launch has a warm and fuzzy touch
During Thursday's high-profile launch of the new operating system, the Windows Web site was turned over to a never-ending Twitter and Facebook stream of breathless updates about Windows 7.
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First Microsoft store opens in Scottsdale
Microsoft opened its first store today in Scottsdale, Ariz, in a move cribbed from Apple. Here's video from a YouTube user called MicrosoftStore. (It's not clear whether MicrosoftStore actually works at the Microsoft Store.)
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Windows 7 launch: Microsoft starts selling PCs direct through Web
Microsoft started selling PCs directly for the first time through the company's Web site today, the same day it debuted a branded retail store.
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Windows 7 launch: Microsoft's new ad "Windows was my idea"
NEW YORK -- The new Microsoft ad that will start airing to sell Windows 7 takes the "I'm a PC" ads featuring regular people and extends it with "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea." The ad was shown today right before CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote has ...
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Windows 7 launch: The 1.6-pound Sony notebook
NEW YORK -- Even though some have predicted PC growth will slow slightly this year, there are pockets of growth in the computer market. One area is netbooks, the small laptops that cost between $200 and $400. Several wireless carriers are marketing ...
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Windows 7 launch: What Ballmer et al. said -- and an Amazon partnership
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Windows 7 launch: Ballmer keynote Tweetstream archive
NEW YORK -- The keynote at the Windows 7 launch just ended. If you want to check out my Tweetstream from the keynote, go to www.twitter.com/sharonpianchan and search for the Tweets that start with "Windows 7 launch."
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Microsoft offers 3 PCs for $1,199 as Windows 7 debuts
The day after Apple showed off a new line of iMacs starting at $1,199, Microsoft announced an offer available through a partner, retailer Best Buy: three Windows 7 computers for the same $1,199.
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