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The beta versions of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are now available, Microsoft announced Wednesday at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Full Story »

Microsoft on Wednesday showed off early work on Internet Explorer 9, a browser that will feature improved performance, new features, and the possibility of new standards. Full Story »

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a beta version of Silverlight 4, which will focus on media, business applications, and working "behind the browser." Full Story »

Microsoft Corp has been ordered by a Chinese court to stop selling versions of its Windows operating systems that include fonts designed by a local company, citing a violation of licensing agreements. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA and Microsoft launched an interactive website that allows Web surfers to become Mars explorers. Full Story »

San Francisco - Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous programming and immutability. Full Story »

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese court has ruled that Microsoft (MSFT.0) infringed a Chinese software maker's intellectual property rights in a surprise decision that has renewed concerns about China's management of IPR disputes, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US software giant Microsoft announced Tuesday that its Internet-based cloud computing service Windows Azure will launch on January 1. Full Story »

Microsoft announced that its Azure cloud computing platform will be launched into production on January 1st of 2010. Chief software architect Ray Ozzie also unveiled details of a cloud computing project, codenamed 'Dallas'. Full Story »

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Full Story »

Microsoft has extended the availability of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile app store to include Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. The broader availability is a benefit for both users and developers, but it may not do much to help the Windows Mobile platform capture market share. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will launch its long-awaited Windows Azure cloud computing system on Jan 1, as it looks to take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and services. Full Story »

Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a former employee that it once charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract. Full Story »

San Francisco - Microsoft is set to move its Windows Azure cloud platform to a a commercial production stage, Microsoft officials said on Tuesday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday. Full Story »

At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Bob Muglia, president of server and tools, talked about how applications are evolving in the cloud era, and showed off some new and upcoming features for Azure and Visual Studio. Full Story »

At Microsoft's yearly grand gathering of geeks, the Professional Developer Conference (PDC), chief software architect Ray Ozzie announced partial availability of the Azure cloud computing platform and the SQL Azure hosted database. He also unveiled a project codenamed Dallas, which gives developer access to third-party information sources. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has begun treatment, a spokesman for his investment company said on Monday. Full Story »