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Among Microsoft's trials and tribulations in the mergers and acquisitions space, a Microsoft official on Tuesday evening cited fear of dealing with the company as an obstacle Microsoft has had to overcome.
IDG News Service - A group of companies is starting up an Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council in hopes of removing barriers to enterprise use of hosted cloud computing.
Microsoft search services goes out for half an hour A day after trumpeting various enhancements to Bing, including the beta version of an improved mapping service, Microsoft had to apologise for a widespread outage that kept the search engine offline for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening.
In response to a Saturday story from Betanews contributor Joe Wilcox , a Microsoft spokesperson told Betanews this afternoon that "the offer has not been 'pulled'" -- specifically, that it did not revoke anything with regard to its three-license Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack offer.
Global Washington's first annual "Blueprint for Action" conference convened at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond Monday. Business, government, education and non-profit representatives from across the State of Washington gathered for speeches and panel discussions about ways to leverage resources, increase visibility, share best practices and advocate for global engagement and foreign ...
At the end of 2009, there is continual news in the virtual fair field. On Dec. 6th, the 3rd China International Finance Exhibition organized by Shenzhen Municipal Government drew to a close.
Two research prototypes may change the way users search ... or not.
When Microsoft laid off Microsoft’s Director of Business Development Don Dodge last month we called it a huge mistake . He was Microsoft's "ambassador" to startups and largely responsible for the success of the Bizspark program (the Bizspark program gives Microsoft products for free to startups, and also funds a number of tech blogs through sponsored posts). Eleven days after Dodge was let go he ...
Microsoft yanked its $150 Windows 7 Family Pack from the U.S. market last week, saying that the limited time offer had expired.
As more baby boomers near retirement, adjust to bifocals, and have their hips replaced, Microsoft predicts the Me Generation will be anything but geezer in its ongoing embrace of technolog... Continue reading "Microsoft Says Graying Boomers Will Never Surrender Their Gadgets!"
The company issued 74 Security Bulletins in 2009, compared to 78 in 2008 and 69 in 2007, excluding out-of-band updates.
Google's release of its Chrome OS to the open-source community intensifies the company's already heated rivalry with software king Microsoft.
Microsoft’s prices for licenses to their operating systems tend to be exorbitant, and while Microsoft attempts to offer a host of different configurations according to functionality and budget, it’s hard not to say that Windows pricing is a mess. Even if you know what functionality you need and what bundle includes that functionality — is [...]
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the battle between Google and Microsoft and how it is largely counterproductive for both companies. Since I spent a lot of my life in competitive analysis, I thought it might be fun to set out a strategy of how Google could take out Microsoft and how Microsoft could take out Google, and consider whether either firm could carry it out.
Last week, Microsoft unveiled major updates to Bing Maps, including the inclusion finally of street-level photos, a la Google Maps Street View. On Bing Maps, they're called Streetside photos.
Phony Web site got good play from Yahoo, Bing, but not from Google
Microsoft names Joe Pagano Worldwide Managing Director for Banking and Capital Markets; company veteran most recently managed sales team for strategic Global Financial Services accounts.
Yahoo chief says company's biggest challenge is bringing offline ad dollars onto the Web.
Software maker claims vulnerability exposed by researchers unlikely to occur in "real world."
There's no rest for the weary, as Microsoft is planning to release six security bulletins for this coming Patch Tuesday. Redmond expects to close out the year with three "critical" and three "important" fixes in its proposed December security patch . As usual, remote code execution (RCE) exploits will dominate the risk considerations in this cycle.
Just in time for the holidays, Microsoft has stopped offering the Windows 7 Family Pack, which allows users to upgrade three PCs to Windows 7 Home Premium for $150. That's considerably less than it would cost to buy three Windows 7 upgrade licenses at $120 each.
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