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Move over, BSOD: There's a new screen of death in town. The frightful-sounding "black screen of death" is striking Windows machines worldwide, if recent media reports are to be believed, and Microsoft itself is the one who unleashed the beast.
They don't consider it a competitor to Twitter, so what does Microsoft have in mind with this new service?
Beta versions are already available for download, with final release just seven months away.
The newest iteration of the Microsoft productivity suite will be available to users in June of next year. One of the most interesting aspects of the new version, will be the release of an online version of the software. This puts Microsoft into a market that Google has already established itself in, but the functionality typically available in the Microsoft versions could put it over the top ...
Kirkland resident Liala Dibeh is proud of the 18 years she has worked in the mail room of Microsoft. But Dibeh, who has Down syndrome, wants others to have the opportunities that she has had since graduating from Juanita High School.
What exactly from Office Web Apps and Office Mobile 2010 can you use on your mobile right now and what will be available when the product ships next spring? Mary Jo Foley does the best job of outlining what is happening here. Let's take a sky high look and see if we can make sense of things so you know what to do if you really have an interest in giving Office a try on the mobile. Sponsor First ...
In the six months since Microsoft launched Bing, the company's share of the search market has inched up from 8 to 9.9 percent, according to comScore . So, who are the converts? At the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference, Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi said the company was having particular success winning over younger searchers.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft all cite fallen pop legend as most popular search term of the year.
Microsoft is sick of the term dog food. Why? Because it's the term used to signify software a company tests on its employees before it's ready for release. Eating your own dog food, essentially. So...
We've heard that Windows 8 will be coming in 2012, so it's only logical that Microsoft's focus shift to the operating system soon. And based on recent job postings, that attention shift is happening...
Microsoft starts actively encouraging users to ditch Internet Explorer 6, YouTube wants to stream television for a fee, and Google pulls Santa-tracking into Google Earth. Microsoft actively urges IE...
There was a bit of a stink today about an antivirus vendor claiming that Microsoft's November security patches caused computers to show a 'black screen of death'. Microsoft has investigated the issue, and states that the antivirus vendor, Prevx, is wrong.
Ah, the tormented life of a Microsoft employee. You spend a few years of your life nurturing a product, teaching it some new tricks, and before you know it you have to release it into the wild and start all over again. Coincidentally, Microsoft also seems to do a lot of hiring during that tumultuous switchover period, and its latest round of job postings have offered a few clues as to what we ...
CWmike writes "Microsoft's Windows ran to stay in place last month as Window 7's market share gains made up for the largest-ever declines in Windows XP and Vista, data released today by Web metrics firm Net Applications showed. By these numbers, Windows 7's gains were primarily at the expense of Windows XP. For each copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7 during November, more than six copies of XP ...
What's Your Reaction? An artistic mind over at Poorly Drawn Portraits has put together a portrait of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer created entirely out of photos of crashed Windows computers displaying the iconic "blue screen of death."
Black screen issues are not widespread and may be caused by malware, Microsoft insists.
San Francisco - Michael Jackson was the most popular search of the year on the three largest US search engines, according to data released Tuesday by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. The only other search terms to appear on more than one list were Twitte...
The dramatic-sounding reports over a Windows 7 "black screen of death" are inaccurate, Microsoft says -- and blown way out of proportion.
The hypocrisy undermining the company's visual tools vision should make developers rethink their Visual Studio commitment before it's too late.
In a speech, Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi says that once the two companies have a single paid search platform both should see double-digit increases in revenue per search.
Denies link between updates and system crashes
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