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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that fiscal fourth quarter earnings fell nearly 24 percent in part because of a one-time legal charge but beat Wall Street estimates.
07/20/2006
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Personal computer shipments grew roughly 10 percent in the second quarter despite soft sales in Europe, two influential research firms reported Wednesday.
07/20/2006
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Microsoft this week published a list of 12 "voluntary principles" of fairness that it says it will live up to in developing future products and dealing with competitors, consumers and partners after the U.S. Justice Department's oversight expires.
07/20/2006
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Google's second-quarter profit more than doubled, maintaining the Internet search leader's penchant for topping analysts' high expectations and further underscoring the advantage the company has built over its chief rivals.
07/20/2006
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Intel Corp. is reassigning five top executives to new positions as part of a corporate restructuring designed to simplify the company's management, according to a memorandum circulated to employees late Wednesday.
07/20/2006
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If they're business principles, it just makes sense to make money.
07/20/2006
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Despite EU troubles, the Redmond empire tops in brand recognition "over there."
07/20/2006
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Microsoft soft on profit, but solid on revenue.
07/20/2006
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A.k.a., competitive business practices to follow that will keep the DOJ off your back.
07/20/2006
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Microsoft announced this week it will cooperate with a leading Linux open source developer to provide interoperability between Windows Longhorn Server and Xen virtualization technology for Linux.
07/19/2006
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Microsoft Corp. plans to license a technology for manipulating three-dimensional images as part of the company's efforts to make more money from its in-house research and development.
07/19/2006
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Microsoft will ship early next month an update to its Web hosting package that takes advantage of recently released products and technologies.
07/19/2006
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Microsoft announced this week it has acquired Winternals Software LP, a well-known vendor of enterprise systems recovery and data protection solutions for Windows, along with the company's associated freeware site Sysinternals.
07/18/2006
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Ballmer tells partners to play ball and bat for Microsoft...or else. Elsewhere, IBM releases Notes for Linux, and Novell comes out with version 10 of its Suse Linux distro.
07/18/2006
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Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have formed a four-year alliance to develop and sell products that aim to give people more sophisticated
ways to communicate with each other.
07/18/2006
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Microsoft has abruptly pulled from its Web site a free folder encryption tool it recently released, saying the program's removal came about due to complaints from IT shops.
07/18/2006
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Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.
07/17/2006
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An FBI computer consultant who pleaded guilty to hacking the secret passwords of Director Robert Mueller and others will not serve any time in prison, a federal judge has ruled.
07/16/2006
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Novell Inc. will start shipping Release 10 of its Suse Linux on Monday, marking the first full new release of Suse Linux since August 2004, according to the company's president and chief executive officer.
07/14/2006
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A leading computer security company quietly fixed a dangerous design flaw months ago, but did not warn businesses and U.S. government agencies until Friday.
07/14/2006
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At its core, the $357 million fine levied against Microsoft Corp. comes down to one simple contention: Microsoft's software for computer servers works faster and more efficiently with its ubiquitous Windows operating system than do rivals' offerings.
07/13/2006
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Intel Corp. plans to cut 1,000 management jobs worldwide in an effort to reduce costs and make its operations more efficient, the world's largest computer chip maker said Thursday.
07/13/2006
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Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are beginning a limited test of plans to make their instant messaging systems work together.
07/13/2006
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VMware announced this week that it is now shipping the free version of its virtualization server platform.
07/13/2006
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Dell Inc. outlined plans Thursday to simplify pricing and reduce the number of mail-in rebates for consumers and small business as part of the computer maker's recent $100 million initiative to improve customer service.
07/13/2006
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The Mozilla Foundation began shipping Beta 1 of Firefox 2.0 this week, just days after a leading Web analytics firm reported the open source browser and its close relations have gained another 2 percentage points on Internet Explorer.
07/13/2006
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Readers on Ballmer's strong-arm selling strategy; plus, what makes the Security Software Advisor program such a sweet deal
07/13/2006
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Europe is golden, the Dutch are Orange, and lunch, unlike revenge, is not best when served cold.
07/13/2006
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IBM announced this week it is shipping a Lotus Notes client that runs on top of Linux in a move one analyst says is primarily about reassuring Notes customers that their old standby collaboration platform continues to have a place in Big Blue's evolving Linux strategy.
07/12/2006
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European Union regulators fines Redmond and warns that the company needs to make sure it doesn't get into the same trouble again.
07/12/2006
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Microsoft on Wednesday at its Velocity 2006 partner conference in Boston debuted a desktop virtualization licensing plan for Windows Vista Enterprise in hopes of generating more interest in its Software Assurance program.
07/12/2006
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North Korea has been operating a cyber warfare unit that seeks to hack into South Korea's military command communication network and destroy Internet servers, a South Korean intelligence official said Wednesday.
07/12/2006
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The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, The Associated Press has learned.
07/12/2006
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The EU fined Microsoft Corp. $357 million and threatened more penalties, saying the company failed to obey a 2004 antitrust order to share technical information with rivals.
07/12/2006
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Microsoft Corp.'s customers will never again face as long a wait between new versions of Windows software as they're enduring now, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer vowed Tuesday.
07/12/2006
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Microsoft Corp. issued seven patches to fix a variety of flaws, five of which the company has deemed "critical" -- its highest security rating.
07/11/2006
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January.
07/11/2006
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Reacting to complaints from users, Microsoft has quietly decided to give Vista users who do not have the latest display technologies a somewhat "cooler" user interface than what has been seen in the beta copies so far.
07/11/2006
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While the stock market sits on pins and needles worried over any further delays in major Microsoft products, some users apparently are tired of waiting -- at least when it comes to browsers.
07/11/2006
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Ballmer takes wraps off hosted CRM app at partner confab.
07/11/2006
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference keynote to give partners a choice. Ballmer also unveiled Microsoft CRM Live and launched Small Business Server 2003 R2.
07/11/2006
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Intel Corp.'s attempt to stanch the loss of market share to Advanced Micro Devices Inc., its smaller rival in the computer microprocessor business, appears to be working and may allow it to gain lost ground over the next six months, analysts said Friday.
07/11/2006
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Microsoft Corp.'s customers will never again face as long a wait between new versions of Windows software as they're enduring now, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer vowed Tuesday.
07/11/2006
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Collectively, we're at the edge of the bed, tapping our toes, as we wait for the other shoe to drop.
07/11/2006
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Adesso Systems, Inc. will use Microsoft's WorldWide Partner Conference, which kicks off in Boston on Tuesday, to raise the curtains on its first partner program aimed at developers looking to create Web-based mobile and distributed applications.
07/10/2006
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Microsoft streamlines its training and sales divisions and gets beat on by the EU and South Korea. Also, IE7 beta 3 ships and Office 2007 is delayed.
07/07/2006
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Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday the finalists and winners of its 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards.
07/07/2006
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Microsoft said this week it has started an open-source project on the SourceForge collaborative software development management site to create free translators that can transform Office Open XML documents into OpenDocument format and vice versa.
07/06/2006
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Microsoft is shipping a free downloadable tool to let users create a private folder where they can store sensitive files.
07/06/2006
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European Commission to levy more fines against Microsoft due to noncompliance with EU antitrust order to share information with rivals.
07/06/2006