AP - Brazil and India have appealed a decision to make Microsoft's Office Open XML format an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 14:02:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to demonstrate integration Friday between its new Silveright browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications and the Ruby on Rails Web framework. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 14:35:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - In the world of technology, success is linked to perceptions. Microsoft demonstrated its multi-touch technology in a Windows 7 demo at the D: All Things Digital conference this week, and the software giant may have hoped to overcome the perception that Apple owns touchscreen interfaces. Instead, some observers are wondering if Microsoft is making the same mistakes that now plague Windows Vista. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 15:02:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Brazil, India and South Africa have lodged an appeal against a decision to grant international standard recognition to Microsoft's Office software package, a standards agency overseeing the case said Friday.
TechWeb - John Chambers has been talking about transforming the way enterprises use and manage IT resources for a couple of years now. With "Cisco Motion," he's finally delivered. -- read full article
Thu, 29 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Is the hoopla around Microsoft Windows 7 much ado about nothing? We won't really know until the operating system is released in 2010. -- read full article
Thu, 29 May 2008 20:47:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Multi-touch capabilities are expected to be part of the next Windows operating system when it is released in late 2009 or early 2010. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Shares of Yahoo rose in
extended-hours trading after Chief Executive Jerry Yang said
Microsoft "has a lot of interest in buying the company
and we are listening." -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 21:22:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - South Africa is appealing a decision to make Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML format an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents, officials said Wednesday. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 22:18:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang said Wednesday that Microsoft is "no longer interested" in buying the pioneering Internet firm, but is considering "other partnerships."
Reuters - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive
Jerry Yang said on Wednesday a potential deal with Microsoft
has tremendous power, but the software giant appears no longer
interested in a full merger.
PC Magazine - Microsoft is finally opening up about when Windows 7 will ship, but the company continues to share just a few, yet tantalizing details of what the eagerly anticipated OS update will be all about. The first? Multitouch support. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 15:42:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC Magazine - At the D: All Things Digital conference, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer talk about their changing roles at Microsoft, the role of Vista, and show off a "brief snippet" of Windows 7's multitouch capabilities. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 23:33:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
