Reuters - Microsoft Corp is betting its next Windows operating system will be faster and easier to use and avoid the missteps of Windows Vista that alienated many users of the software that powers 90 percent of the world's PCs.
PC Magazine - Microsoft introduces its "Windows for cloud computing" offering at its Professional Developers Conference, which it's calling Azure. -- read full article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:43:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC Magazine - Several days after Microsoft chairman Bill Gates jumped into the white spaces debate, the software giant reiterated its commitment to white spaces and called on the Federal Communications Commission to quickly approve rules that would allow for the emerging technology to come to market. -- read full article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:28:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft will reveal on Tuesday its intent to open up its planned "M" application modeling language via the company's OSP (Open Specification Promise), according to the company. -- read full article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:05:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - For every developer who has been waiting with bated breath for Microsoft to spell out its cloud-computing strategy, the day has finally arrived. -- read full article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:16:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Packaged-software king Microsoft on Monday took to the computing "cloud" with a platform for offering programs as hosted services on the Internet.
AFP - An Internet industry code of ethics intended to safeguard online freedom of speech around the world is to be adopted this week by technology titans including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp took the wraps off a new computing service that allows companies to use its data centers to run their Web applications in a bid to become a player in the "cloud computing" trend.
Reuters - A top Chinese copyright official chided Microsoft for launching an anti-piracy tool that nags users of counterfeit software with a black computer screen and said the company's prices were too high.
Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp has matched a reward being offered in the search for a missing Canadian teenager who ran away from home after his parents took away his Xbox 360 video game console. -- read full article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:34:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp took the wraps off a new computing service that allows companies to use its data centers to run their Web applications in a bid to become a player in the so-called "cloud computing" trend.
InfoWorld - At Microsoft's PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in Los Angeles, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie unveiled the company's much-anticipated cloud computing platform, dubbed Windows Azure. -- read full article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:04:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Bill Gates and other Microsoft Corp officials stepped up lobbying of top U.S. communications regulators on Monday, ahead of an important vote next week to open up unused wireless airwaves. -- read full article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:58:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
