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Microsoft just announced that its Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition office suite will cost just $99 from Friday 11/27 through Monday 11/30. That's $50 off the standard price.
UK-based Datel, makers of the Max Memory cards for Xbox 360, claims in a new suit that Microsoft "deliberately harmed competition" when the gaming and software giant nixed third-party memory card support in a recent system update. Datel said this week that it filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in San Francisco federal court for what it called a "downgrade" of the Xbox 360 that now ...
Dr. Andrew Makar shares the step-by-step process of configuring a custom Gantt chart view. This customization trick may save you time when you're switching between views in Microsoft Project.
Microsoft Monday night issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer .
Microsoft last week launched its first serious effort to build IT into its cloud plans by introducing technologies that help connect existing corporate networks and cloud services to make them look like a single infrastructure.
Rumor has Microsoft talking to large web publishers and offering to pay them to ban Google...
Confining content from The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google
Microsoft is losing its chief financial officer, Chris Liddell (pictured left), who will be departing the company at the end of the year. Liddell will be replaced by Peter Klein (below), the current CFO of Microsoft's Business Division. Lidell joined in May, 2005 from International Paper. The stock is at about the same place as when he joined. Liddell has overseen a period of cost-cutting and ...
Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell will leave the company at year's end.
Microsoft launched an online haiku contest this month targeting IT professionals. To win a home theater system and an Xbox 360 Elite console, IT pros can submit their best haikus about the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system via Twitter or the campaign's microsite, R2Haiku.com.
Microsoft said that CFO Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of the year. Peter Klein will take over as CFO.
News Corporation , the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has engaged in early stage discussions with Microsoft about a pact to get paid from Microsoft to remove its news content from Google ’s search engine, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously to discuss confidential negotiations.
Microsoft has been in talks with News Corp about a plan to pay the media giant to block Google from indexing its online properties like The Wall Street Journal in exchange for Bing being the only search engine with access to the sites. According to The Financial Times of London, Microsoft has also talked with other big media companies about its scheme, all in a bid to hit Google's margins and ...
Datel claims Microsoft is violating antitrust laws...
Microsoft's Xbox 360 is no longer compatible with the first -- and only -- third party memory card, Datel's Max Memory, after the distribution of a Dashboard software update. In response, Datel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
PC Magazine: "It's an ugly rumor. There's no way Microsoft would resort to bribing Web sites to get delisted from Google, is there?"
Those darn Apple ads just get funnier. Still, as Thanksgiving approaches, the folks at Microsoft have plenty to be thankful for, particularly on the Windows 7 and Bing fronts.
New Super Mario Bros Wii has gotten a lot of attention for its Super Guide feature, but apparently Microsoft has been planning a similar helping hand for a year. Siliconera reports that the company's game platform strategy director Andre Vrignaud has filed a patent for user-submitted game guides over Xbox Live. According to the patent, the system detects where a player is stuck, and accesses a ...
Microsoft is a company that Rupert Murdoch understands. When he talks about the technology business or about the Internet or Google, which, on at least...
News Corp. and Microsoft are reportedly in "early stage talks" to cut an exclusive deal that would prevent Google from indexing the media conglomerate's news Websites some of which include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and others.
Microsoft is in the spotlight again this week due to a recent dashboard update which rendered third-party memory cards useless in the Xbox 360. Peripherals manufacturer Datel is one of the big losers as it offers alternative memory products that are both cheaper and higher capacity than the official products. The company’s response to Microsoft’s update [...]
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