PC Magazine - Four months after the software giant bowed to European Commission antitrust investigators and pledged to provide greater access to some of its key software products, Microsoft on Monday provided details on how it is putting those promises into place. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Protocols for Office 2007, SharePoint 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 are out, but it's too early to tell what impact those releases will have on the company or its partners and competitors. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:15:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft will no longer make Windows XP available to large computer makers, such as Dell, Lenovo, or Hewlett-Packard, or to software retailers. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:28:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Monday
sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy
battle with billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist
investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the
Internet company.
NewsFactor - An era ended Monday. The first day of Steve Ballmer's occupation of the corner office at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA., also marked the last day for Windows XP. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:53:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The flaw focuses on IE's inline frames, often used for serving ads, which typically come from a different domain than content that appears on the same Web page. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to
cut the price of its best-selling Xbox 360 Pro model by $50, to
$299 in the next few weeks, the Hollywood Reporter reported
citing anonymous sources.
TechWeb - Microsoft marks the end of an era as Bill Gates and Windows XP -- two icons of the company at its zenith -- head for the sunset. Can Redmond survive this transitional moment, or will June 30 be the day Microsoft died? -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:16:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - The Redmond-based giant has released thousands of pages of documentation and new translation tools aimed at better compatibility between office suites. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:08:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC Magazine - Digital rights management issues have been a thorn in Microsoft's side for sometime now, but thankfully, those days appear to be in the past. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:24:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
PC World - A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo doesn't appear likely to happen in the future, Bill Gates [cq] said in a TV interview on... -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft
Corp for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the
corner office vacated by Bill Gates, the college friend who
brought him to the company nearly three decades ago.
AFP - Bill Gates is spending his last day at Microsoft Friday before turning his attention full time to philanthropy after decades spent building the US software colossus.
