AFP - A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on June 27.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The original patch worked on Windows Vista, but failed to accomplish its task in Windows XP SP2 and SP3, the Microsoft Security Response Center said. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:53:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - The departure of Microsoft's founder and iconic leader Bill Gates comes at a pivotal time in the company's history as it... -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:10:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Over his years at Microsoft, Bill Gates gave dozens upon dozens of speeches and in many of them he would offer his vision of... -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:10:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped his bid to buy Yahoo, he took pains to point out that Yahoo's search-sharing arrangements with Google were likely to bring intense antitrust scrutiny for any company acquiring Yahoo. Given Microsoft's lengthy history with antitrust enforcement, Ballmer found that particularly unappealing. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:44:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Though Bill Gates leaves his full-time duties at Microsoft on Friday, he remains nonexecutive chairman and will participate in... -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:20:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Microsoft's latest security update has detected and removed more online game password-logging software from 2 million PCs. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:50:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - A federal judge ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay Alcatel-Lucent $511.6 million in damages and interest, letting stand a jury's decision that the software maker infringed on two patents. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:55:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's CEO said the
company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet
acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc
, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
USATODAY.com - Even if you're an active Web surfer you probably don't pay much attention to the browser you are using. By default, you likely employ Microsoft's Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, if only because Internet Explorer sits right there on your desktop. The Apple crowd typically sticks with Safari. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:17:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - A senior Microsoft executive on
Friday criticized a new advertising deal between web search
giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., saying it would reduce
competition in ad search and be bad for advertisers.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The former SoftGrid software streams an application from a server in an organization's data center to a local PC as pieces of the application are needed. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:36:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
