Microsoft, Yahoo take next step in search alliance
AP - 36 minutes agoMicrosoft and Yahoo have signed off on their plan to team up against Google in Internet search.
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Microsoft Amends Browser Ballot Proposal Once Again
OSNews - Fri Dec 4, 2:44 pm ETYou thought the whole browser ballot thing in Windows was behind us, right? That everybody was finally happy, so that we could continue doing what an overwhelming number of people have already done without a ballot screen - that is, install non-IE browsers? Not exactly. Opera, Mozilla, and Google still had complaints, which Microsoft addressed, making everybody happy.
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Salesforce, Oracle Targeted by Microsoft
Datamation - Fri Dec 4, 9:22 am ETMicrosoft has rolled out aggressive new pricing for its on-demand offering in an effort to undercut SaaS rivals.
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Fresno firm BC Tech Gear sued by Microsoft
The Fresno Bee - Fri Dec 4, 4:57 am ETMicrosoft is suing a Fresno tech company in federal court, accusing it of copyright and trademark infringement and software piracy.
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NetView files IP suit against Microsoft
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - Fri Dec 4, 1:00 pm ETBelmont software company NetView Technologies Inc. has filed suit today in U.S. District Court in Boston against Microsoft Corp., claiming the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant infringed its patent on a business method for extracting data from spreadsheets.
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Yahoo! and Microsoft Finalize Search Agreement
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 1 hour 37 minutes agoSUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.----Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corporation today announced that the companies have finalized and executed the definitive Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement and License Agreement in accordance with the letter agreement announced in July.
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Microsoft unleashes lawsuits, raids in piracy crackdown
Boulder Weekly - Fri Dec 4, 11:35 am ETSAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it has unleashed a series of lawsuits and is cooperating in criminal prosecutions worldwide in an effort to stem piracy of its software.
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IE Vulnerability Heads Microsoft's Patch Tuesday List
Enterprise Security Today - Fri Dec 4, 11:17 am ETPatch Tuesday will address a vulnerability in Internet Explorer severe enough that Microsoft considered an out-of-band patch. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday also addresses a Windows Server 2008 flaw that could be disruptive and a Project 2000 problem.
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Microsoft Office In Cambridge Gets 'Green' Renovation
Banker & Tradesman - Fri Dec 4, 11:18 am ETJones Lang LaSalle has recently completed a 43,500-square-foot LEED-CI Gold project at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
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Microsoft Pumps New Map App and Bing Features
Wired News - Thu Dec 3, 5:11 pm ETMicrosoft showed off a slick new map application and some enhancements to Bing Wednesday. It's trying to win users away from Google's online services, and the search wars are definitely on.
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Microsoft is making progress on search: You noticed Bing's glitch
ZDNet - Fri Dec 4, 10:51 am ETIt's a happy day for Microsoft's search team. Bing had a half hour outage late Thursday and a few folks actually noticed.
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An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft’s Newest Data Visualization Tool
TechCrunch - Fri Dec 4, 10:40 am ETAt Microsoft's PDC event a few weeks ago, Microsoft Live Labs introduced a new technology, called Pivot, to make sense of interconnectedness between objects on the web. The underlying premise of Pivot is to view relationships between "collections" of individual information on the the web. Many of the connections between items on the web aren't necessarily tangible, but Pivot helps crawl massive ...
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'Black Screen' Overhyped and Not Microsoft's Fault
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 5:05 pm ETAfter creating great distress in security circles, an issue with Microsoft Windows has proven relatively minor. The problem, labeled the Black Screen of Death, was initially thought to be widespread. Indeed, British security firm Prevx posted a series of blog items suggesting that several million computers using Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 could be compromised. The company said the problem ...
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Microsoft Decision Brings It Closer to Settling Case
International Herald Tribune - Fri Dec 4, 2:33 pm ETTo appease regulators and rival browser makers in Europe, the company says it will change the display of a ballot screen.
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Microsoft to patch IE zero-day bug next week
Network World - Fri Dec 4, 4:59 am ETMicrosoft today said it will deliver six security updates on Tuesday, including one that will patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) the company admitted only last week.
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Microsoft delivers two more pieces of its Forefront enterprise security suite
ZDNet - Thu Dec 3, 2:10 pm ETToday Microsoft announced its plans for releasing two more pieces of its "Stirling" a k a Forefront enterprise security suite: Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 TMG and Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 UAG. by Mary Jo Foley
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Microsoft To Fix Zero-Day IE Bug For Patch Tuesday Release
ChannelWeb - Thu Dec 3, 6:31 pm ETMicrosoft plans to release six patches covering 12 vulnerabilities, including a critical IE bug, for its December Patch Tuesday.
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Microsoft, EU Are Said to Modify Deal in Browser Case (Update2)
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 3, 1:59 pm ETDec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. revised a planned antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators after browser makers complained the accord gave the company an unfair advantage, according to two people familiar with the case.
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Microsoft: More Educated Consumers Pirate Less
Tom's Hardware - Thu Dec 3, 9:41 pm ETWhile piracy is one thing that is unlikely to be gone from the software industry any time soon, Microsoft is expressing an attitude that shows the company is more confident against the problem than ever.Besides its WGA protection schemes, Microsof Microsoft - Windows Genuine Advantage - Software industry - Security - Consultants
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Microsoft plays down anti-Google search plans
CNN - Thu Dec 3, 1:36 am ET(FT) -- Microsoft's top search technology executive on Wednesday all but dismissed the likelihood that the company would pay newspaper owners and other publishers for removing their content from Google.
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Microsoft, EU Are Said to Modify Settlement in Browser Case
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 3, 12:23 pm ETDec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. revised an antitrust- settlement with European Union regulators after browser makers complained the accord gave the company an unfair advantage, according to two people familiar with the case.
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