NewsFactor - Years ago, the Linux open-source operating system seemed ready to offer a nonproprietary alternative to Microsoft Windows. But "Linux on the desktop" never took off. -- read full article
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:10:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Microsoft announced Wednesday that the 2008 version of SQL Server, its data-management and business-intelligence platform, has been released to manufacturing. -- read full article
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:46:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to
buy back as much as $20 billion of its stock to boost its
flagging share price, Bloomberg News quoted a top-rated
software analyst as saying.
NewsFactor - Microsoft plans to share early information about its monthly Patch Tuesday updates with security software providers, partners, customers and public organizations. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:51:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) announced Monday that three U.S. Internet companies have agreed to an Internet code of conduct for doing business with repressive regimes like China. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo worked with human-rights organizations and other nongovernment groups to hammer out the framework. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:44:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Long-serving executive helped grow the business intelligence product line from its roots in Microsoft SQL Server. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:47:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC Magazine - Microsoft has confirmed that the "Midori" operating system is an "incubation project," without confirming whether it actually will be a commercial product or part of the Windows family. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:30:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC Magazine - A House panel is ramping up its battle against behavioral advertising by requesting that major ISPs and Internet companies provide detailed information about how they collect and store information about Web users' Internet activity. -- read full article
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:56:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A study of Microsoft's instant messaging network supports the popular idea that everyone on the planet can be connected through fewer than seven links in a chain of contacts. -- read full article
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:21:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - If actor Kevin Bacon is reading this, he may want to urge people to expand the game bearing his name -- by playing it with Microsoft's Messenger. -- read full article
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:03:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - U.S. technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google
Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and
human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary
code of conduct for activities in China and other restrictive
countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc tried to soothe
angry investors at its annual meeting on Friday, insisting it
had been serious about talks to sell itself to Microsoft Corp
and that it had good growth prospects in the next three years.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The report shows that Microsoft is aware of its own important balancing act as the company strives to maintain its relevance and dominance in the services era. -- read full article
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
