Microsoft Admits Plurk Code Was Stolen
PC World - Tue Dec 15, 4:00 pm ETMicrosoft's Juku service in China did indeed steal code from Plurk, a popular Twitter rival in Asia, the software giant admitted on Tuesday.
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Bug keeps some Office users from their files
CNET - Tue Dec 15, 1:49 pm ETMicrosoft posted a warning on Friday that some copy-protected files may now be inaccessible from Office 2003.
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Is it game over for Microsoft on consumer front?
CNET - Tue Dec 15, 1:49 pm ETOne analyst says it is time for Microsoft to get out of the phone business, saying it is just not in the company's DNA. Is that true for the company's larger consumer effort?
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Pastebot Is a Brilliant, Syncable Clipboard for the iPhone [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo - Tue Dec 15, 1:49 pm ETYou know how Microsoft Office's clipboard lets you keep track of everything you've copied and pasted on your PC? This is like that, for the iPhone. Except flashier, and with wireless syncing....
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Microsoft buys data center software firm Opalis
CNET - Tue Dec 15, 1:48 pm ETThe acquisition of the Toronto-based software maker will bolster Microsoft's lineup of management tools, Redmond says.
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31% of Windows 7 Problems Are From Install
Tom's Hardware - Tue Dec 15, 1:48 pm ETFor those with issues, getting it on is the hardest part. Windows 7 - Microsoft Windows - Operating system - Windows - FAQs Help and Tutorials
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Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 delayed until 2010
IT World - Tue Dec 15, 1:48 pm ETMicrosoft has revealed that Windows Mobile 7 - the next version of its smartphone OS - is unlikely to be released until "late 2010".
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Microsoft's server chief talks cloud (Q&A)
CNET - Tue Dec 15, 1:42 pm ETDivision president Bob Muglia talks about the future of Windows Server and Windows Azure and defends against claims Microsoft has no future in the consumer space.
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Microsoft pulls China blog site amid code-theft charges
CNET - Tue Dec 15, 1:42 pm ETThe software maker says it is still investigating allegations that MSN China's Juku microblogging site improperly uses code from a rival service.
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Mozilla worker touts Bing over Google, citing privacy
CNET - Tue Dec 15, 1:37 pm ETIn a post on his personal blog, a Mozilla veteran responds to comments by Eric Schmidt on privacy by suggesting that people consider moving to Microsoft's Bing.
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Microsoft Pulls Plug on Plurk Pilferer
AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 15, 1:37 pm ETHere's what we know at this point. Our MSN China joint venture contracted with an independent vendor to create a feature called MSN Juku that allowed MSN users to find friends via microblogging and online games.
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Microsoft's Office team takes a page from the Windows play book
ZDNet - Tue Dec 15, 1:24 pm ETWindows President Steven Sinofsky joined the Windows team from the Office unit, leading many of us Microsoft watchers to note how similar the Windows organization has become to Office, in terms of its structure, policies and procedures, over the last couple of years. But the Office team is learning from the Windows team, too -- in app compatibility.
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2009 Was Another Big Year for Open Source
Developer.com - Tue Dec 15, 1:15 pm ETOpen source technology has come a long way in the last decade, and 2009 was another year of big breakthroughs. Network World's John Fontana recapped this year's open source milestones in his story "From the White House to (no kidding) Microsoft, open source shined in '09."
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Is Microsoft Cool Again?
The Motley Fool - Tue Dec 15, 1:08 pm ETMicrosoft has become a hot brand.
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Microsoft halts microblog service accused of copying Plurk
Network World - Tue Dec 15, 1:08 pm ETMicrosoft suspended a microblog-style site for Chinese users on Tuesday after the service was accused of copying programming code from Plurk, a Twitter rival popular in Asia.
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Games On Demand for Games For Windows Live launches [Update]
Big Download Blog - Tue Dec 15, 1:05 pm ETFiled under: Biz , Downloads As promised. Microsoft has launched its Games On Demand features for its Games For Windows Live service, allowing people to download and purchase a selection of full games from the Games For Windows Live client . The full games that are currently available at Fallout 3 , Dirt 2 , Street Fighter IV , Viva Pinata (for $9.99), Kane and Lynch: Dead Men , Shadowrun (for ...
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Microsoft should take Zune to the cloud, offer music for any device
BetaNews - Tue Dec 15, 12:53 pm ETThere has been much speculation and punditry about why Apple bought music streaming/sharing service Lala, with cloud services being the biggest reason . I don't agree with this cloudy reasoning, but it got me to thinking that a music cloud service would be helluva good idea for Microsoft -- and the company has been there before.
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DECAF App Thwarts Microsoft's Super-Illegal COFEE Forensic Software [Crime]
Gizmodo - Tue Dec 15, 12:49 pm ETMicrosoft's COFEE software is designed to help law enforcement grab sensitive, encrypted data from a suspect's hard drive. Recently that software was leaked online. Now, two "developers" have come up...
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Data Privacy Day 2010 to Raise Awareness of 'Digital Identity' Risks, Benefits
PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 15, 12:47 pm ETTo help build “transparency, consumer control, and accountability" into the online data collection process "without sacrificing the benefits” of new technologies, Intel, Google, Microsoft and others have joined to support Data Privacy Day 2010 (www.dataprivacyday2010.org) which seeks to make everyone smarter about data collection and use.
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Microsoft pulls China service to probe alleged plagiarism
seattlepi.com - Tue Dec 15, 12:42 pm ETMicrosoft has blocked access to MSN Juku while it investigates allegations that the new China microblogging tool was blatantly plagiarized.
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Accused Of Being A Copy Cat, Microsoft Suspends Its Twitter-Like Service In China
paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 15, 12:40 pm ETLess than a month after Microsoft launched a microblogging service in China, the company has pulled the product off the market, among rampant accusations that it had blatantly copied a competitor's own microblogging service.
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