AP - NEW YORK — As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases. -- read full article
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:46:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - The beta version of Office Live Workspace has one million users just six months after launch, Microsoft announced Wednesday as it released some minor improvements to the service. -- read full article
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:46:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - There is something for everyone, according to Microsoft officials who are touting the company's new prices for all three models of its video game console, the Xbox 360. -- read full article
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:11:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Yahoo Inc.'s stock sank to its lowest level in nearly five years Thursday, magnifying the challenge facing the Internet company as its management tries to justify their rebuff of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid. -- read full article
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:32:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp kicked off a
$300 million marketing campaign on Thursday, aimed at improving
the image of its Windows Vista operating system and strike back
at Apple Inc's "Mac vs. PC" ads.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday it plans to cut the U.S. prices of its Xbox 360 video
game machine, lowering the price of its entry-level console to
$50 below Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) top-selling Wii.
AFP - Google's chief executive admitted Thursday there was a "defensive component" to the Web search giant's launch of its own Internet browser, thereby pitting it against Microsoft's dominant software.
InfoWorld - They???re back! Just when you thought the ???browser wars??? were over, with the two camps ??? Microsoft and Mozilla.org ??? settling in for a kind of intransigent d??tente, along comes Google to stir things up all over again. Clearly Google is unhappy with the current state of browser geopolitics and feels it needs to roll its own in order to ensure a robust base for its myriad hosted applications (e.g. Gmail, Google Docs, etc.) -- read full article
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - The new Web browser that Google Inc. released Tuesday is designed to expand its huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft Corp.'s imprint on personal computers.
NewsFactor - Microsoft hasn't publicly commented on Google's new Chrome browser, but Redmond's Internet Explorer 8 team may wind up echoing Mozilla's makers: We're not worried. -- read full article
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:34:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft is boosting integration of functional programming with its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform. -- read full article
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:10:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - The new Web browser that Google Inc. released Tuesday is designed to expand its huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft Corp.'s imprint on personal computers.
