AP - Microsoft Corp. will use its $1.2 billion purchase of Oslo company Fast Search and Transfer ASA to form key, Norway-based research and development centers for its business search systems, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer announced Tuesday. -- read full article
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:16:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft plans to continue charging licensing fees from handset makers for using its mobile operating system and not follow the free offerings of Google and Nokia, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.
NewsFactor - The software behemoth has had enough. Microsoft has teamed up with Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna to stop companies and individuals from fooling consumers. -- read full article
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:21:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday the global financial crisis will sap consumer and business spending, affecting all companies, including his own.
PC Magazine - Microsoft still hasn't given an exact release date for when the "New Xbox Experience" dashboard overhaul will be released, but if you want to get an early impression of what to expect then head over to their new Web site. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:21:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, urged the House of Representatives to reconsider its vote against the $700 billion financial bailout plan Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:21:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a pay package valued at about $1.35 million for fiscal 2008, a year in which the software maker's profit climbed despite the troubled U.S. economy. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:44:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday that no company was immune to the global financial crisis which he expects to sap both consumer and business spending. -- read full article
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:43:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Under the banner of "democratizing" application life-cycle management (ALM), Microsoft is unveiling today the next major release of its Visual Studio Team System platform. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into its Visual Studio platform, according to several blogs published on Sunday. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday evening emphasized the company's ambitions in search and virtualization while offering his perspective on the current nervous U.S. economic situation. -- read full article
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:47:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA, a panel of federal appeals judges has ruled in what may be the last word on a long-running digital music patent lawsuit. -- read full article
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:51:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday he still sees a "certain buoyancy" among technology and telecommunications customers worldwide, despite recent U.S. economic woes. "Our industry is not immune to what goes on in the global economy. And yet as I travel...given the current circumstances, people still see a certain buoyancy in the market," Ballmer told a meeting of Silicon Valley civic leaders. -- read full article
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:50:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Microsoft has confirmed it will release the first pre-beta version of Windows 7 to developers next month. Windows 7 is the next major version of the Windows client operating system. -- read full article
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:05:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled Thursday, in what may be the last word on a long-running digital music patent lawsuit.
