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| A Glimpse of Microsoft's Enterprise Goals
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| Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his opening keynote at Microsoft's Convergence user conference to not only preview a number of updates to the company's Dynamics line of business software, but also to make a firm declaration of the software giant's enterprise market plans.
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March 15, 2008 |
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| Acquisitions Help Microsoft Make Up Lost Ground
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| In 2008, customers will see Microsoft integrate into existing products many of the technologies it acquired in 2007.
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December 6, 2007 |
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| Adobe buys into web word processing
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| Adobe has piled into the escalating web-based office applications scrap with the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, a Massachusetts-based start-up.
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October 1, 2007 |
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| Adobe Pursues Software and Services Strategy
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| Ask Adobe Systems Inc. CEO Bruce Chizen about the state of relations between his company and Microsoft Corp., and he finds it hard not to smirk.
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October 2, 2007 |
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| Adobe reports record revenue in Q3
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| Creative Suite 3 has been putting bread on Adobe Systems' table this quarter.
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September 18, 2007 |
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| Analyst Reports: HP Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Several Strategic Software Markets
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| HP today announced it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in industry analyst firm Gartner Inc.'s Magic Quadrant reports.
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January 16, 2008 |
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| AOL Acquires Social Search Site Yedda
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| AOL said Monday that it had acquired Israeli social search site Yedda, a company that focuses on linking questions to the best possible users to get answers and start discussions on topics.
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November 12, 2007 |
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| Apple Boosts Market Share
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| Leopard's release helps push the Mac to 6.81% of the operating system market, says new research.
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December 3, 2007 |
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| Are Microsoft, Yahoo Courting Hell in AOL?
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| Rumors abound that Microsoft and Yahoo are courting AOL's Web division. Is this a smart move for any of the parties? Perhaps Microsoft should land on Yahoo, then AOL to combat Google in search and online advertising.
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July 16, 2008 |
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| Ballmer becomes lone voice at Microsoft's helm
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| Transition comes amid loss of Yahoo bid, Vista perceived as a failure.
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June 29, 2008 |
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| Barracuda snaps up firewall firm
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| Anti-spam appliance firm Barracuda Networks has bought application firewall firm NetContinuum.
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September 18, 2007 |
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| BEA to Oracle: No Thanks
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| BEA's board rejects Oracle's bid as too low.
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October 12, 2007 |
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| BEA will talk to anyone for $8.3bn
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| We've already established what you are, now we're just working out a price.
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October 25, 2007 |
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| Best Buy, Circuit City Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs
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| Some sales reps at brick-and-mortar retailers convince PC purchasers to buy unnecessary store-made backups.
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August 29, 2007 |
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| Bill Gates Isn't Leaving Microsoft
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| He can't. Not yet. The Vista legacy simply doesn't suit the onetime software maverick.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| Borland Brings Management to ALM
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| Borland Software Corp.'s new Borland Management Solutions (BMS) emphasize the “management” portion of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
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July 14, 2008 |
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| China Launches Microsoft Antitrust Probe
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| A working committee of China's State Intellectual Property Office is investigating whether Microsoft engaged in discriminatory pricing, according to Xinhua Financial News. The committee will also look at Microsoft's practice of bundling other software programs within its Windows operating system, according to the report.
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June 18, 2008 |
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| Clarizen Going After Microsoft Project Users
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| Clarizen, like other small vendors in the on-demand project-management software space, is trying to lure Microsoft Project customers.
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April 30, 2008 |
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| Clarizen Selected for Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program
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| Vision, market traction and potential to bring on-demand project collaboration software to businesses worldwide earned Clarizen a spot in the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program. Stewarded by the Emerging Business Team (EBT), the Accelerator Program connects innovative, high-potential startups committed to the Microsoft platform, like Clarizen, to an extensive technical support network, as well as all the necessary marketing and channel support that an emerging company needs to succeed.
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January 22, 2008 |
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| CNET Cutting 120 Jobs
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| Ten percent of its staff gets slashed in a restructuring to help it focus on long-term growth amid complaints from some investors.
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March 27, 2008 |
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| Corel CEO resigns, as company mulls whether to go private (again)
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| Top exec departs to take new job two weeks after investment firm offers to buy all shares.
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April 22, 2008 |
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| Corel taps Symantec exec as interim CEO
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| The embattled former CEO David Dobson will now hand over the reins of the Canadian-based software company to veteran IT executive Kris Hagerman, who joins Corel as interim chief from Symantec.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| Dell Grabs ASAP Software for $340 Million
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| The acquisition of ASAP will allow Dell, of Round Rock, Texas, to offer its enterprise customers additional management tools and services for monitoring software licensing, purchasing, renewals and compliance.
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August 2, 2007 |
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| EU Regulators Wary of Microsoft's Shift
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| Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will share more information about its products and technology in an effort to make it work better with rivals' software and meet the demands of antitrust regulators in Europe.
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February 22, 2008 |
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| EU says governments could bar Microsoft from bidding
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| Governments contracting IT work could conclude that Microsoft's antitrust history constitutes “grave professional misconduct” and ban the company, according to the European Commission.
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June 17, 2008 |
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| Europe to become the center of Microsoft's search research efforts
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| It failed to acquire Yahoo's search business -- or at least that's what Yahoo has said. So now Microsoft has to rely on its own resources to come up with a plan for moving forward in search; and to do that, it's setting up a second laboratory.
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June 17, 2008 |
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| EU Will Examine Google-DoubleClick Merger
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| The European Commission's antitrust arm will use the next four weeks to pore over the specifics of the merger between Google and DoubleClick to ensure that it falls within the boundaries of the EU's strict laws regarding monopolies.
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October 22, 2007 |
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| Facebook value drops $11.25bn
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| Court papers have told the world what it already knows: Facebook is not worth $15bn.
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July 8, 2008 |
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| Gates exits Microsoft to focus on charity work
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| In interview with NBC Gates discusses departure, Microsoft-Yahoo deal.
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June 27, 2008 |
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| Gates moves on, but Microsoft keeps 'quests' alive
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| It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft's leader.
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June 27, 2008 |
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| Gates-Ballmer Succession Watch
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| It's not CEO Steve Ballmer, who at last month's D6 Conference admitted, "I am not an engineer." I'll say. Steve is a marketing guy who has put other marketing guys in charge of Microsoft.
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June 23, 2008 |
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| Google Acquires Social Addressing Service Jaiku
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| Early this afternoon, the developers of an all-purpose, presence-providing application for instant messaging, IRC, and other communications services announced it has been acquired by Google.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Google CFO George Reyes to Retire
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| Google said that George Reyes plans to retire as chief financial officer by the end of the year, and that the company will begin a search for a replacement.
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August 28, 2007 |
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| Google to Cut DoubleClick Jobs, Sell Performics Piece
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| Less than a month after closing its DoubleClick acquisition, Google on Wednesday announced significant but expected changes in the ad services company that include reducing its staff and selling part of its Performics division.
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April 3, 2008 |
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| HP Acquires Atos Origin Middle East Group to Broaden Systems Integration Business
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| HP today announced that is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Atos Origin Middle East group, also known as "AOME," one of the Middle East's leading systems integrators, to broaden its consulting and integration capacity in the region.
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October 22, 2007 |
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| HP and Microsoft plan Taiwanese R&D centre
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| Tech boffins at the R&D hub will work on advanced software and hardware. They'll also brainstorm ways of improving technical support for Taiwan partners such as contract laptop manufacturer Quanta, reports Reuters today.
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March 20, 2008 |
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| HP Delivers New Governance Services and Software to Drive SOA Adoption and Business Agility
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| HP today announced a comprehensive set of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance software and services to help companies accelerate SOA adoption and drive increased business value while reducing potential risks, such as service disruption to the business.
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January 28, 2008 |
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| HP Closes Neoware Acquisition
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| HP today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Neoware Inc., a provider of thin client computing and virtualization solutions, at a fully diluted, enterprise value (net of cash) basis of approximately $214 million.
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October 1, 2007 |
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| HP Closes Opsware Acquisition
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| Deal adds data center automation to HP Business Technology Optimization software portfolio.
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September 21, 2007 |
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| HP Helps Businesses Reduce Risk of Downtime with Enhanced Business Service Management Software
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| HP today introduced enhanced software to help IT organizations monitor and manage business services to mitigate business risk and reduce the potential costs of service downtime.
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October 22, 2007 |
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| HP Helps Communications and Entertainment Companies Unlock the Value of Customer Data
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| HP today announced a portfolio of solutions to help communications, media and entertainment companies unlock the value that exists within their vast stores of customer and operational data.
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September 18, 2007 |
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| HP to Acquire Tower Software, Expanding Capabilities in Fast-growing e-Discovery and Compliance Software Market
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| HP and Tower Software today announced that they have signed a pre-bid agreement for HP to acquire Tower, a document and records management software company based in Canberra, Australia.
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March 31, 2008 |
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| HP Unveils Network Software to Help Telecoms Build Customer Loyalty with Personalized Services
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| Hutchison 3G Austria selects HP OpenCall HLR to support mobile customers.
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February 6, 2008 |
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| IAC/Interactive will spin off four divisions, but will hold Ask.com.
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| Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp will spin off four of its biggest divisions, including its HSN shopping network, and retain 30 of its fastest-growing businesses to better capitalize on the growth of Web services.
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November 5, 2007 |
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| IBM buys in-memory database company Solid
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| Solid makes an embedded database with an in-memory database engine, which means it can store and retrieve data from main memory, giving faster performance than traditional disk-based systems.
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December 21, 2007 |
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| IBM goes to Princeton Softech
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| Technology services behemoth IBM said it has signed an agreement to acquire privately held Princeton Softech Inc for an undisclosed sum.
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August 3, 2007 |
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| IBM Lotus Soars Under Departing GM
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| Mike Rhodin leaves behind a strong legacy for IBM's collaboration software unit, which posted 17 percent year-over-year sales growth in the first quarter.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| IBM Software Star Retires
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| IBM software guru Lee Nackman leaves as the company names a new round of distinguished engineers.
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April 7, 2008 |
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| IBM, Apple Team to Take on Microsoft
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| IBM will offer a version of Lotus Notes for the iPhone and iPod touch, ratcheting up its office battle with the software maker.
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January 18, 2008 |
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| IBM, Microsoft Partner on POS Solution
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| IBM will install the Windows Embedded operating system into its point-of-sale devices.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| IBM, Zend Tighten PHP Partnership
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| IBM's expanded partnership with Zend aims to enable users to more easily create enterprise-ready PHP applications.
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August 9, 2007 |
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| Icahn blasts BEA board as Oracle walks away
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| Oracle let its $17 per share offer for BEA lapse yesterday, but activist investor Carl Icahn has demanded the middleware firm put the offer to shareholders anyway.
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October 29, 2007 |
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| Independent Report: HP Named a Leader in Client Management Software Suites
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| HP today announced that independent industry analyst firm Forrester Research has named it a leader in client management suites.
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August 7, 2007 |
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| Intel backs multicore effort with $10M investment in Endeca
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| Intel has made a $10 million investment in information access software company Endeca Technologies as it continues to target multicore platforms.
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January 23, 2008 |
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| Intel fills green software gap
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| Concern about the carbon emissions of power stations powering Second Life servers was balanced by the possibilities for raising awareness through social networking.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Intuit CEO to step down in December
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| Departure comes four months after TurboTax fiasco.
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August 23, 2007 |
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| Is Ballmer the right man for Microsoft -- for another 10 years?
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| CEO wants to stay on until 2017 or 2018, but critics say that he's failing the company.
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June 25, 2008 |
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| Is Vista to blame for Windows revenue drop?
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| Analysts compare with numbers at XP's one-year anniversary.
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April 25, 2008 |
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| It's Windows Vista! Only Cheaper!
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| Okay, now this is unexpected: Microsoft is slashing the price of some retail versions of Windows Vista, effective when the SP1 version rolls out later this year.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| Key Thunderbird Devs Leave Mozilla
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| Without providing any public reason, two of the chief developers behind Mozilla's Thunderbird client announced their intentions to leave ahead of the e-mail client's split from the company.
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October 8, 2007 |
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| Latest AOL buy spells more ad rivalry with Microsoft
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| In the same week that Microsoft made a half-billion-dollar deal with Viacom, AOL has announced it's closed a merger deal in the advertising space. Could greater intrusiveness into consumer behavior, and higher ad prices, ultimately follow?
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December 20, 2007 |
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| Linux Shows Signs of Solid Growth
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| Workloads running on Linux servers are shifting to become more business oriented, including databases and line-of-business applications, and the operating system appears headed for measurable growth over the next three years.
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April 9, 2008 |
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| Logitech Says Any Microsoft Bid `Without Sense`
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| Logitech's chairman was quoted as saying a takeover bid for the company by Microsoft would be "an operation without sense."
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March 9, 2008 |
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| McAfee pays $51m for Hacker Safe
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| Security firm McAfee has bought ScanAlert - the company behind the "HACKER SAFE" kitemark used to certify ecommerce websites.
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October 30, 2007 |
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| McAfee ties up SafeBoot buy for $350m
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| Encryption plus anti-malware to counter data loss worries.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| McAfee to Pay $13.8 Million in Stock Scandal
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| To settle a lawsuit over backdating, McAfee has restated its finances reports for 10 years and taken a $137.4 million charge.
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December 22, 2007 |
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| Microsoft 3Q profit falls from Vista-heavy 2007 quarter
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| Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 11 percent from a year earlier, when the software maker reported more than $1 billion in deferred revenue tied to delays in the launch of the Windows Vista operating system.
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April 24, 2008 |
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| Microsoft acquires data-quality software start-up Zoomix
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| Speculation about Microsoft planning to purchase Zoomix, an Israeli start-up focused on data quality software that was founded in 1999, has now been confirmed with a press release.
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July 14, 2008 |
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| Microsoft acquires search engine start-up
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| Microsoft has agreed to acquire search engine start-up Powerset for an undisclosed sum to strengthen its free Live Search service.
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July 3, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Acquires Shopping Site Jellyfish
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| Microsoft said Tuesday that it had acquired comparison shopping site Jellyfish, which allows users to compare and buy products, and then get cash back for purchases made through the site.
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October 2, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Acquisitions Head Bruce Jaffe to Leave
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| Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid US$1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search & Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.
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January 10, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Adds $3 Million to Small-business Subsidies
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| Microsoft has invested several million more dollars into an incentive program it recently unveiled for small businesses, hoping to make it easier for customers in that market to run their businesses using Microsoft products.
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May 8, 2008 |
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| Microsoft and Yahoo rise on deal talks report
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| Yahoo Inc. shares rose more than 5 percent Wednesday as The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft Corp. has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business.
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July 2, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Announces New Dynamics Offerings
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| At its Convergence conference, the software vendor offers an AX sneak peak, an expanded EDS relationship and a focus on software-plus-services.
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March 12, 2008 |
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| Microsoft architecture chief 'clarifies' online formula
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| Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie tried to clarify Microsoft's software plus services internet strategy. And guess what, it involves advertising and Yahoo!.
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March 5, 2008 |
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| Microsoft acquires virtualization pooling firm Kidaro
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| An existing tool which enables pools of users to share a single desktop from any location, and individuals' desktops to be centralized through servers and distributed to thinner clients, will become part of Microsoft's growing virtualization arsenal.
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May 22, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Beats Street, Reports Strongest Q1 in 8 Years
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| Strong sales of new and old products alike led Microsoft to its fastest first-quarter growth in eight years.
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October 26, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Bids $1.2 billion for Fast
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| Microsoft Corp has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer for 19 crowns per share, valuing it at about $1.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday.
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January 8, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Buys Rootkit Detection Startup
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| Microsoft gets a key piece of technology to beef up its enterprise security offerings and a major entry point into government markets.
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March 21, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Buys Security Firm
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| Komoku technology will be incorporated into Forefront and Windows Live OneCare.
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March 22, 2008 |
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| Microsoft buys travel search site
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| Microsoft has bought Farecast - a travel search site which finds flights for you and, if you're flying from some US cities, can also tell you if the price is likely to go up or down in future.
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April 18, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Buys U-Prove technology
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| Microsoft hopes to beef up online privacy with the acquisition of the U-Prove technology.
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March 6, 2008 |
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| Microsoft buys virtualization tot for help with Vista
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| Microsoft has tapped into its vast cash reserves and found some coin to drop on Kidaro - a young desktop virtualization software maker.
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March 12, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Claims European Antitrust Issues are History
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| Microsoft says its transparency efforts should stave off legal trouble, despite a record fine from the European Commission last week.
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March 3, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Close to Hostile Bid for Yahoo
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| Microsoft is gearing up for a hostile acquisition of Yahoo, with a formal announcement possible Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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May 2, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Closes Popular Third-Party Windows Update App
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| AutoPatcher, a popular alternative to Windows Update, was shut down today in response to a cease-and-desist e-mail from Microsoft.
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August 29, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Completes FAST Purchase
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| Microsoft has completed its US$1.2 billion purchase of FAST Search & Transfer and will install the company's CEO as head of a newly formed enterprise search group, it said Friday.
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April 25, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Could Stumble in Quest for Ad Speed
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| Microsoft wants to give its online advertising and online services business a major boost, ending years of business and technology defeats at the hands of Google.
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February 1, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Deals Itself a New Hand
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| Microsoft reshuffles its management team, putting an outsider at the helm of its online division.
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February 14, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Directory Team to Reconsider Ignored Standards
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| Ripple effect of company's shift towards interoperability is felt in Microsoft's directory and identity development team, where previously neglected standards are now being reconsidered.
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March 4, 2008 |
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| Microsoft enters TV ad business with Navic buy
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| Playing a little bit of catch-up to rival Google, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Navic Networks on Wednesday, giving it a foothold in the television advertising business.
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June 18, 2008 |
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| Microsoft EULA lands it with $175m Indian tax headache
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| Basing its ruling on the terms of Microsoft's own EULA (end-user license agreement), an Indian court has ordered the company to pay tax on royalty income generated in the country, Tax India Online (TIOL) reports.
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March 31, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Extends Hosted Software Services
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| Microsoft said Monday it will let smaller businesses use some of its key software applications over the Internet later this year, a sign of the company's rapid move to the Internet-centric computing favored by competitors Google and Salesforce.com.
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March 3, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Eyes Management as Key to Virtualization
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| Anticipating that the market for virtualization software, such as Microsoft's Hyper-V, eventually will be commoditized, the company sees management as the key revenue opportunity for competitors offering server virtualization, said Windows Enterprise and Management Division General Manager Larry Orecklin, speaking to reporters on Microsoft's campus Tuesday.
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April 22, 2008 |
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| Microsoft faces lawsuit over Silverlight
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| Microsoft's latest legal headache is a suit from a little-known company called Gotuit Media, which charges elements of Silverlight infringe on the video metadata company's patented technology.
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July 16, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Fires CIO
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| Microsoft fired its chief information officer, Stuart Scott, after an investigation for violation of company policies.
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November 6, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Fires CIO for Policy Violation
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| Microsoft Corp. disclosed last week that it had fired CIO Stuart Scott after an internal investigation found that he had violated company policies.
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November 12, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Gives Software to Students
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| With a tools giveaway, Microsoft seeds the market for future developers - trying to hook them while they are young, before they become entrenched in Java or open-source tools.
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February 19, 2008 |
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| Microsoft invests $240 million in Facebook
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| It's hard to determine what's more surprising about Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc. -- the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
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October 26, 2007 |
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| Microsoft launches a new wave of interoperability initiatives
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| Microsoft surprised everyone today, rolling out a huge set of initatives around interoperability between non-Windows software -- including open-source -- and its own. Is Microsoft bowing to pressure from the European Commission?
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February 21, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Leads Tech Lobbying Pack
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| Winning friends and influence in Washington isn't cheap. Big Tech took a lesson from Big Pharm and spent a fortune on lobbyists.
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June 4, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Links With VitalPay for Payment Processing
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| Microsoft has made an unspecified agreement with a payment processing company, in what could be another step toward establishing its own online payment system.
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June 3, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Looking for Embedded Innovations
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| Ever dream of designing a toaster that sears a design of your own making on a piece of bread? If that's the kind of project you might like to tackle in your spare time, Microsoft has a new program that could help.
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April 15, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Loses Antitrust Spokesperson
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| Tom Brookes, Microsoft's Brussels-based spokesman on antitrust matters, has resigned his partnership position at the public affairs consultancy G-Plus, and his responsibility for the Microsoft account, and is understood to be joining Apple, according to people who work closely with him.
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March 4, 2008 |
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| Microsoft May Invest in Facebook
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| Such a deal could help Microsoft better compete against Web search leader Google for a growing base of online advertising and put one of the Internet's hottest names firmly in Microsoft's camp, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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September 24, 2007 |
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| Microsoft offers to share some secrets
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| Microsoft Corp. says it will share more information about its products and technology. The company wants to make it easier for developers to create software that work with its products.
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February 21, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Partner Program Aimed at Small Businesses
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| Microsoft is reaching out to help small businesses find IT support by introducing the Small Business Specialist Community, some 5,000 Microsoft partners who have gone through training, passed exams and been designated by the software maker as being able to meet the IT needs of small business.
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October 2, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Partners Back Unified Communications
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| Microsoft's partners Tuesday lined up behind the launch of the company's unified communications platform, with Nortel releasing six products to cement its year-long development relationship with the software giant, and vendors such as FaceTime adapting their management wares for Office Communications Server 2007.
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October 18, 2007 |
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| Microsoft patents forensic watermark for DRM-free music
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| Even if the owners didn't put it on the tracks originally.
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September 12, 2007 |
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| Microsoft patents Wish Lists
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| Just what you always wanted.
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January 3, 2008 |
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| Microsoft pledges $235M for IT in developing world
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| Funds targeted for training in Windows software.
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January 22, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Picks Up Group Chat Provider
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| The purchase will help Microsoft compete with rivals IBM and Cisco in the red-hot unified communications market.
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August 30, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Rolls Out CRM Update
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| The company begins a 12-week global tour this week to launch the suite, which is available for both on-demand and on-premise deployments. The company first released code for the software to partners and customers in December.
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January 31, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Rumored to Acquire Powerset Search Engine for $100M
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| Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset, say reports. According to Venture Beat, the deal could happen as early as next month with a price tag in the $100 million range - more than double the estimated value of the company.
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June 27, 2008 |
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| Microsoft says 140M Vista licenses sold
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| It cited strong PC sales for the growth.
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April 24, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Sets Unified Communications Launch Date
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| Microsoft is releasing its Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007, and Office Live Meeting on October 16.
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August 23, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Should Sideline Search, Focus on Strengths
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| Microsoft should consider putting its search-advertising endeavors on the back burner for now and attempt an end run at Google by trying to become a leader in the display-, video- and mobile-advertising markets, where no company is a clear leader yet.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Stake Values Facebook at $15 Billion
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| It's hard to determine what's more surprising about Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc. - the appraisal that valued a 3½-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
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October 25, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Piracy Effort in China
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| Microsoft is trying to fight piracy in China by ensuring that more new computers in the region come with genuine copies of Windows pre-installed at the factory.
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November 7, 2007 |
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| Microsoft targets Google, Yahoo with Web-hosted SMB wares
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| SaaS versions of Exchange and SharePoint available for trial.
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March 3, 2008 |
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| Microsoft to Appeal $1.3 Billion EU Fine
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| Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.
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May 9, 2008 |
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| Microsoft to buy Rapt for ad management tools
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| Its tools predict demand for ads, optimize price and ad placement.
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March 14, 2008 |
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| Microsoft to Host Partner Software
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| Microsoft will soon detail ways that partner companies will be able to deliver their services based on Microsoft's hosted services, the software company said on Tuesday.
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April 22, 2008 |
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| Microsoft to Open Two New Data Centers
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| A new data center outside of Dublin, Ireland, will deliver Windows Live services to customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Microsoft said.
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November 7, 2007 |
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| Microsoft to Spend Another $20 Million in Indian Education
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| Microsoft is planning to spend US$20 million on its education programs in India over the next five years. The company said on Wednesday that it had already spent $20 million since 2003 on its education program for teachers, called Project Shiksha.
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June 4, 2008 |
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| Microsoft urges resellers to play it straight, beef up revs
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| Microsoft has claimed that each dollar it "loses" to software piracy equals $5.50 in "lost opportunities" to the firm's channel partners.
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July 10, 2008 |
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| Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack Sets Sales Record
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| More than 3 million licenses were sold over the past nine months.
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November 12, 2007 |
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| Microsoft's Dynamics AX 2009 Now Generally Available
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| The latest version of Microsoft's ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for upper-midmarket customers is now generally available, Microsoft announced Monday.
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June 2, 2008 |
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| Microsoft's new 'Select Plus' a better software license for businesses?
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| The devil's in the details, as the devil tends to be.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Microsoft's Raikes leaves
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| Office software exec will retire in September
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January 11, 2008 |
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| Microsoft, Powerset Confirm Deal
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| Microsoft and Powerset confirmed Tuesday that Microsoft will purchase the search-engine startup. The news comes several days after a rumor about the deal circulated on the Web.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Microsoft, Sun to Announce Expanded Agreement
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| This afternoon Eastern time, two representatives from Sun Microsystems and Microsoft will be holding a joint press conference, to discuss what is only being described, for now, as "an expanded agreement between the two companies.
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September 12, 2007 |
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| Microsoft, Viacom agree to $500M advertising pact
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| Companies to share content, advertising efforts.
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December 19, 2007 |
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| Mozilla Gets a New CEO
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| Mozilla COO John Lily is taking over for Mitchell Baker, who is stepping down.
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January 8, 2008 |
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| Mozilla opens the doors on Messaging subsidiary
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| Mozilla Messaging will initially focus on the development of Thunderbird 3, which promises improved features including integrated calendaring and better search.
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February 20, 2008 |
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| Newspaper reports Microsoft, AOL continue talks
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| Executives from Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are trying to advance discussions on a possible combination that could give the software maker an alternative to a deal with Yahoo Inc., a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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July 16, 2008 |
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| Nokia Acquires Navteq for $8.1 Billion
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| Nokia said Monday that it had agreed to acquire navigation software company Navteq in an $8.1 billion acquisition, one of its largest in company history.
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October 1, 2007 |
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| Novell credits Microsoft, SAP, and HP for Linux sales leap
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| Giving credit to industry deals with Microsoft, SAP, and Hewlett-Packard, Novell reported a year-over-year sales jump of 31 percent for its Linux software in its quarterly financial results yesterday.
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May 30, 2008 |
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| Oracle 4Q earnings rise 27 percent to $2.04B
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| Oracle Corp. breezed past analysts' expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter, providing another sign of the technology industry's vitality despite the listless U.S. economy.
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June 25, 2008 |
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| Oracle calls BEA's selling price 'impossibly high'
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| But acquisition target retorts that Oracle's offer remains too low.
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October 26, 2007 |
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| Oracle Drops Bid for BEA Systems
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| BEA had insisted on a valuation of about $8.2 billion, or about $21 per share. This was significantly higher than Oracle's offer of $17 per share, which comes out to about $6.7 billion.
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October 29, 2007 |
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| Oracle Makes Another Insurance Software Buy
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| In another move to beef up its strategy in the insurance sector, Oracle has bought Skywire Software's application business for an undisclosed sum, the company announced Monday.
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June 23, 2008 |
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| Oracle risks loss of influential BEA users
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| During its trumpeted webcast on plans for BEA Systems, Oracle's top brass stressed their commitment to middleware to keep the new flock happy. So it purchased BEA to expand Oracle's presence in Asia and Japan - that wasn't the point.
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July 4, 2008 |
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| Oracle Sees 65 Percent Growth in App Licenses
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| Oracle's 11g database helps fuel a 23 percent jump in license revenues for database and middleware products.
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September 21, 2007 |
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| Oracle`s Second Attempt to Acquire BEA Succeeds for $8.5B
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| As it turns out Oracle is in fact the best buyer for BEA. After Oracle's first overtures for BEA in October 2007 -- followed by a heated battle between Oracle, BEA and its biggest shareholder Carl Icahn -- both companies announced Jan. 16 that they have agreed to merge.
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January 16, 2008 |
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| Outgoing Adobe CEO Takes $37.9 Million
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| Outgoing Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen took home US$8.3 million in compensation and grabbed another $29.6 million through exercising stock options in 2007, the company's latest regulatory filing reveals.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| PC World feels the Vista pinch (again)
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| Slow adoption of Microsoft Vista has hamstrung profits again at DSG, the retail group that owns PC World.
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October 18, 2007 |
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| Qualcomm pays $32M for content-targeting software maker
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| The deal is Qualcomm's latest effort to investment in the wireless Internet applications space.
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March 11, 2008 |
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| Red Hat cheerleading purges Q4 profits
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| Red Hat's profit rose 7 per cent during its fiscal fourth quarter, with a healthy bump in revenue offset by the open source software distributor's increased sales, marketing, and R&D expenses.
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March 27, 2008 |
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| Red Hat profit climbs almost 7 pct in 1Q 2009
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| Red Hat Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter 2009 profit rose 6.6 percent as the software distributor posted an increase in sales led by growth in software-subscription deals.
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June 25, 2008 |
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| Running the numbers on Vista
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| Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report.
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September 12, 2007 |
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| SAP Buys Business Objects for $6.78 Billion
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| The merged product offerings challenges Oracle, but is a switch from SAP's aversion to acquisitions.
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October 8, 2007 |
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| SAP Denies Microsoft Acquisition Rumors
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| CEO Henning Kagermann quashes rumors that SAP is in acquisition talks with Microsoft.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| SAP users' group picks CIO
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| Kaplan Professional's CTO picked to steer technology direction.
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December 20, 2007 |
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| Scammers Get Jail Time for Microsoft Software Scheme
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| The scammers purchased more than $29 million worth of software at Microsoft's academic-discount rates and then resold it to nonacademic entities.
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October 26, 2007 |
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| SCO Warns SEC It Might Not Survive Novell Payoff
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| In its quarterly 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, UNIX provider SCO Group expressed its fears that, if it were faced with a judgment ordering it to pay Novell for several years of using UNIX trademarks recently found to have been owned by Novell all this time, it may not be able to continue business.
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September 20, 2007 |
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| Seamons Leaves Lifeware for Microsoft
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| Co-founder of Exceptional Innovation takes dream job of marketing Media Center worldwide.
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March 13, 2008 |
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| Software AG pays $26M for mainframe app-dev tools
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| Software AG has bought the application modernization activities of Jacada Ltd., adding to its portfolio of tools for prolonging the life of mainframe applications by giving them a Web interface.
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December 20, 2007 |
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| Sony loses longtime software development exec
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| Phil Harrison will step down from his position at Sony at the end of the month in order to "tackle new challenges in the video game industry.
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February 25, 2008 |
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| Start-Up Sues Google Over E-Mail Switching Tool
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| Google was named Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's.
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June 24, 2008 |
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| Study sees Microsoft brand in sharp decline
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| No. 1 among U.S. business users in '96, it's now 59.
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March 28, 2008 |
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| Sun completes purchase MySQL, sets sights on Microsoft and Oracle
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| Sun Microsystems today confirmed it has completed its acquisition of MySQL, and announced all MySQL products are now part of the Sun worldwide sales and support network.
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February 26, 2008 |
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| Sun Microsystems to Change Ticker Symbol to 'JAVA'
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| Twenty-one years after going public, Sun decides to make an image change.
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August 24, 2007 |
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| Supremes reject Microsoft's Novell request
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| The Supreme Court rejected an attempt today to throw out a claim by Novell that Microsoft tried to undermine the market for Novell's WordPerfect in the mid-90s.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Supremes wave through HP class action
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| The US Supreme Court has declined to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against Compaq for selling defective floppy disks. HP, which bought Compaq in 2002, had argued a lower court decision wrongly certified a nationwide class of plaintiffs.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Symantec Acquires Online Backup Service
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| The security and storage company picks up SwapDrive for a reported $123 million.
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June 11, 2008 |
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| Symantec CEO Blasts Microsoft Pricing Practices
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| Microsoft is undercutting its competitors in order to make headway in security market, CEO says.
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August 29, 2007 |
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| Symantec CEO Doesn't Plan Another Big Acquisition
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| Symantec Chief Executive John Thompson that he doesn't plan to make another large acquisition, pointing to the July 2005 purchase of Veritas Software Corp for about $10 billion.
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August 28, 2007 |
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| Symantec Completes $350M Acquisition of Vontu
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| The deal caps a bevy of similar consolidation moves in the data loss prevention security-storage sector.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| Symantec Melds Altiris into Product Portfolio
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| Symantec blends Altiris products into the new Privilege Management Essentials bundle.
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September 13, 2007 |
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| Symantec Profit Drops 60 Percent
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| Worried U.S. economy will hurt consumer sales of its Norton security software.
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October 25, 2007 |
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| Symantec Sees Growth in Q3
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| Symantec beat revenue forecasts for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 with a revenue increase of about 7 percent.
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January 23, 2008 |
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| Symantec Sees Strong First-Half Business
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| Corporate demand for security software fuels strong Symantec sales.
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May 20, 2008 |
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| Symantec Steals Partner Deals
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| Symantec is stealing business from its own channel partners and resellers, according to the accounts of several partners. Symantec has encouraged several large enterprise accounts to deal directly with Symantec, cutting partners out of the deal.
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July 15, 2008 |
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| Symantec to Buy Vontu
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| Security software giant Symantec is preparing to announce an acquisition of Vontu, one the largest remaining independent providers of data leakage prevention software, which is used to control the flow of sensitive information across corporate networks.
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October 15, 2007 |
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| Time Warner restructuring could involve dividing AOL
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| Time Warner's new Chief Executive Officer announced the outline for AOL's restructuring, which may include divesting from the AOL access business, Time Warner cable unit, and even New Line Cinema.
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February 6, 2008 |
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| Trend Micro Buys Encryption Firm
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| British security firm Identum makes the Private Post desktop and gateway server products.
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March 1, 2008 |
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| Trend Micro snaps up UK-based email crypto firm
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| Trend Micro, the security firm best known for its PC-cillin anti-virus software, has acquired UK-based email encryption firm Identum.
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February 25, 2008 |
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| What $3 Million Buys Silverlight
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| Does Adobe pay its customers to be customers? Microsoft does.
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March 3, 2008 |
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| Why Would Microsoft Digg?
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| The rumors are out there. Digg is up for grabs, for as little as $200 million. For a company that spent about as much on a puny Facebook stake, surely Microsoft could get into the bidding—as it is rumored to be. But why?
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March 10, 2008 |
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| Windows Price Ruling Not Enough, Says French Consumer Group
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| A French electronics retailer must display separately the price of computers and of the software bundled with them, a Paris court ruled Tuesday. It stopped short of ordering the retailer to sell computers without bundled operating system software, however.
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June 25, 2008 |
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| Windows Vista Sales Top 100M
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| Many businesses are still waiting until after Vista SP1 is released before considering an upgrade.
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January 24, 2008 |
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| Windows Vista's Default Programs tool more than what you'd expect
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| While exploring in Windows Vista recently, I discovered something that I had previously overlooked because of its lackluster name -- Default Programs.
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| WSJ: Microsoft Board Empowers Ballmer to Talk or Walk
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| The Microsoft board Wednesday gave CEO Steve Ballmer “broad discretion to either go hostile or abandon the Yahoo pursuit” but the company's decision will probably not be made and announced until later this week, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| Yahoo stock rebounds on Microsoft reports
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| Talks may be back on for software giant to purchase part of portal.
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June 24, 2008 |
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| Yahoo To Buy Online Ad Network for $300M
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| Yahoo is buying online advertising network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, building upon an expansion aimed at ending a financial malaise that has ravaged the Internet pioneer's stock price.
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