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    Software Piracy Said Down in China, Russia

    Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion. 05/23/2006

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    Intel Designing PCs for India's Rural Poor

    U.S. chip maker Intel Corp. will design cheaper computers to be made by manufacturers in India for the country's rural poor. 05/23/2006

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    From WinHEC: Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Beta 2

    Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released new test versions of what company co-founder Bill Gates called its three most important products. 05/23/2006

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    Computer Outage Strikes Montana State Government

    Much of Montana's government computer system crashed Monday, idling state employees and frustrating those who wanted to do such things as renew driver's licenses and obtain fishing permits. 05/23/2006

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    Partner Watch, May 22

    New Horizons becomes the largest network of Microsoft Gold Partners, it reports. 05/22/2006

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    South Korea Rejects Microsoft's Antitrust Appeal

    South Korea rejected appeal by Microsoft to overturn an antitrust decision against the world's largest software company. 05/22/2006

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    Anti-Spyware Leader Unfazed by Microsoft

    For millions of PC users, the privacy-snatching programs known as spyware have been nothing but a headache as they swipe personal information, slow systems to a crawl and crash computers. For Webroot Software Inc., the annoying programs have been the foundation of success. 05/22/2006

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    Microsoft Testing Pay-by-the-Hour PCs

    Microsoft developed technology for people to pay by the hour to use a computer in their own homes. 05/22/2006

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    Anatomy of the Deal

    An inside look at prominent deals within the Microsoft partner community. Part of an occasional series. 05/19/2006

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    Vista Minimum System Requirements Revealed

    After months of being noncommittal, Microsoft Thursday finally published the system requirements for Windows Vista, and set up a Web site to help users plan ahead for Vista’s availability early next year. 05/19/2006

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    HP Gains on Dell in Tough PC Market

    Just five months after its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. gave Hewlett-Packard Co. the No. 1 ranking in worldwide personal computer shipments, a new batch of market numbers delivered some stomach-turning news to HP. 05/19/2006

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    Taking on the IP Thieves

    Piracy in China tempers the enormous business opportunities there.  05/19/2006

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    Dell Moves Toward AMD Chips Amid Earnings Drop

    The world's largest PC maker says it was merely bowing to customer demand when it decided to start offering microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in some of its high-end servers. 05/19/2006

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    Symantec Sues Microsoft

    Symantec accused Microsoft of misappropriating its intellectual property and breach of contract. 05/19/2006

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    Putting Windows 98 on Ice

    July 11 support deadline looms for Windows 98/SE/Me. 05/19/2006

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    IT Weekly Roundup, May 19

    From the business wires: a tool for monitoring Web apps, SharePoint connectors, and a self-extracting file compression program. 05/19/2006

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    Symantec Files Lawsuit Against Microsoft

    Security software maker Symantec Corp. accused Microsoft Corp. in a federal lawsuit Thursday of misappropriating its intellectual property and breach of contract. 05/19/2006

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    An Unfinished Story

    Wall Street punishes Microsoft for playing close to the vest on investment plans.  05/19/2006

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    Microsoft Has a Whale of an Appetite

    Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is buying out secure access software vendor Whale Communications, in a move aimed at broadening its security offerings to enterprise customers. 05/19/2006

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    Microsoft, Best Buy Partner Up on Certification

    More than 300 Best Buy employees now certified under training and certification program, jointly developed with Microsoft. 05/18/2006

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    Blue Security Shuts Down Anti-Spam Service

    Score one for the spammers. The company behind a controversial anti-spam initiative is shutting down the service after spammers began threatening users and rendering the company's site inaccessible. 05/18/2006

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    Executive: Microsoft More Nimble Company

    Company's corporate restructuring designed to allow Microsoft Corp. to make decisions more quickly, says top exec. 05/18/2006

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    Will Video Break the Internet?

    Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there. 05/18/2006

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    Best Buy Trains 300 MCPs on Way to 900

    Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has trained 300 Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) on its way to a goal of 900 MCPs as it ramps up its services capabilities for a major push into small business sales. 05/18/2006

  • Why Does Microsoft Keep Its Volume Pricing Secret?

    Hey Microsoft, want to really help your customers? Publish your volume licensing price list! (Yes, all of it!) 05/18/2006

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    SharePoint Server Gets Spotlight at Microsoft CEO Summit

    In a post-keynote press conference with Microsoft executives and Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, Microsoft pushed its vision for the next version of SharePoint Server, scheduled to ship to business customers in October. 05/17/2006

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    Apple Releases More Laptops with Intel Chips

    Intel chips sweep through the Mac landscape; what's left to complete the transition are high-end Macs. 05/17/2006

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    Microsoft Plans New Search Products

    Windows Live Search, competitor to Google Search, offered as a free download. 05/17/2006

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    Software Makers Crack Down on Net Piracy

    Rivals Symantec and McAfee band together to bust eBay software pirates. 05/17/2006

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    Microsoft Launches Laptop Rebate Program for System Builders

    Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new laptop rebate program to encourage system builders in the Microsoft Partner Program to focus on mobile systems. 05/17/2006

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    Judge Agrees to Extend Microsoft Oversight

    DOJ to continue keeping an eye on Microsoft's business practices for two more years. 05/17/2006

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    Gates to CEOs: Here's to Another 10 Years

    Ten years ago, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told CEOs attending the keynote of his first CEO Summit that the exponential changes being brought about by technology would continue unabated. 05/17/2006

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    Gates Shows Off SharePoint Server 2007

    Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday touted the capabilities of the company's upcoming Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. 05/16/2006

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    Hewlett-Packard Profit Rises on Cost-Cutting, Higher Revenue

    HP bests Wall Street estimate of 49 cents per share by a nickel. 05/16/2006

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    Microsoft Releases First Preview of Expression Web Designer

    Microsoft has released the first community technology preview (CTP) of its Expression Web Designer tool targeted for designers producing professional Web sites. 05/16/2006

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    IBM Develops New Tape Storage Technology

    Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. say a new method for cramming data onto magnetic tape will increase storage capacity at least 15 times, enough to squeeze the text from 8 million books onto a cartridge half the size of a VHS tape. 05/16/2006

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    AMD To Unveil Power-Efficient Chips

    Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in personal computer microprocessors, plans to unveil chips Tuesday it says will lead to more power-efficient PCs that are smaller and more stylish. 05/16/2006

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    Partner Watch, May 15

    EMC Corp. acquires IT professional services firm Interlink. 05/15/2006

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    Microsoft Shifts Partner Executives

    Margo Day, the leader of the U.S. Partner Group since September 2001, is moving into an alternate role in the Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners organization. 05/15/2006

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    DOJ Wants to Extend Oversight of Microsoft to 2009

    Citing Microsoft Corp.'s lapses under part of a landmark antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company's business practices until at least November 2009. 05/12/2006

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    ISO: OpenDoc Ratified as Standard

    In Europe on Monday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC jointly announced they have ratified the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard meant to enable documents from various desktop applications to be interchangeable. 05/11/2006

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    BlackBerry Coming to China

    The company behind the BlackBerry on Thursday said it will launch its mobile e-mail service in China, where it already has homegrown competition: the Redberry. 05/11/2006

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    Entry-Level SAN Tool Bows

    DataCore says it is shipping an entry-level version of its enterprise resource analysis, monitoring and reporting tool for Windows and storage area networks (SAN). 05/11/2006

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    HP Unveils New Notebooks

    Following in the footsteps of rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest computer maker, unveiled laptops with spiffier designs as well as more powerful processors. 05/10/2006

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    Cisco Forecast Concerns Analysts

    Cisco Systems Inc., a leading maker of networking gear, is working to temper Wall Street's expectations for its current quarter. 05/10/2006

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    Court: British Hacker Can Be Extradited to U.S

    A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems. 05/10/2006

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    Google Shows Off "Co-op"

    Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. 05/10/2006

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    Speech Server 2007 Enters Beta Test

    Microsoft said this week that it's shipping the first beta test version of Speech Server 2007 on schedule, and plans to release the final code this fall. 05/10/2006

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    Microsoft Ships Prerelease of Compute Cluster Server

    Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. 05/09/2006

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    Microsoft Debuts Windows CE Beta

    While Windows Vista gets all the attention, embedded version of Windows quietly being revamped. 05/09/2006

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