Microsoft filing shows losses in four divisions

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IN A REGULATORY filing Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Microsoft for the first time provided financial results for each of seven recently formed business units, revealing operating losses in four segments, including the unit that produces its Xbox video console.

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MS hires national security advisor

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The company said Wednesday it has tapped Thomas Richey, a retired U.S. Coast Guard officer, to fill the new post of federal director of homeland security at the company. After serving for 20 years in the Coast Guard, Richey retired in 2001 and became policy adviser to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in whose office he worked on homeland security and other issues.

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Microsoft hops over server deadline

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The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker has been working on delivering the next major desktop and server versions of Windows--code-named Longhorn--by late 2004. Although the desktop version of Longhorn is still expected within this timeframe, a server version is not expected until 2005 or 2006, the company said.

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Microsoft to launch corporate IM

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Microsoft on Wednesday is expected to unveil a new instant messaging service aimed at corporate customers, jump-starting belated efforts by the software giant to tap a fast-growing, new market for the hugely popular technology.

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ViewSonic picks Microsoft Smart Displays

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ViewSonic plans to announce on Tuesday the details of some of its first portable displays that will use Microsoft software to expand how PCs are used in the home.

The Walnut, Calif.-based monitor maker's new devices will use Microsoft's Windows CE for Smart Displays software, technology previously code-named Mira. So-called smart displays are portable monitors that can communicate wirelessly with a PC. With a stylus, a person can surf the Web or respond to e-mail using the monitor's touch screen.

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Microsoft extends its low-end PDA reach

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Microsoft and Samsung on Monday announced they have teamed up to develop a design for low-cost handhelds, a market dominated by rival Palm.

Devices based on the design will use Microsoft's Pocket PC software and Samsung's 200MHz ARM9-based S3C2410 application processor and will have 32MB of memory. The design also calls for a 3.5-inch color or black-and-white display, Secure Digital and SDIO support, and a petite 4.1-inch-by-2.8-inch, 2.9-ounce case.

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Microsoft stitches up net glitches

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Microsoft has released a software update to correct connection problems with network gear it unveiled in mid-September.

The fix could resolve problems in the company's 802.11b wireless, or Wi-Fi, and Ethernet hubs that either dropped connections with local computers or with Internet service providers. Users started reporting problems soon after the network gear appeared in stores around Oct. 1.

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MS, DOJ, states file antitrust settlement

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Microsoft and the Justice Department on Friday filed a revised settlement in the software giant's long-standing antitrust case.

The filing, which had been expected, incorporated changes requested by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and brings the four-and-a-half-year-old case closer to a final resolution.

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Microsoft picks compliance committee

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Microsoft said Friday it has established a compliance committee to enforce an antitrust remedy issued a week ago by a federal judge.

The Redmond, Wash.-based company had 30 days to create the committee, made up of three Microsoft board members. James Cash, a professor at Harvard Business School and chairman of Harvard Business School publishing, will chair the committee. Cash joined Microsoft's board in June 2001.

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Microsoft Takes Aim at PDF

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Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley breaks the news on Microsoft's big push into what was publishing's darling, Adobe's PDF standard.

Microsoft to improve C++, C#

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MICROSOFT OFFICIALS, INCLUDING Chairman Bill Gates, will reveal details of improvements planned for the Visual C++ .Net and Visual C# .Net programming languages at a conference in Seattle on Friday.

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Software will make or break Tablet PC

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A FREE VIDEO game that will be available for Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system Thursday, when hardware makers debut new portable computers based on the operating system at a splashy New York event, highlights the pen-based features that more important business applications will take advantage of.

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Handset maker hangs up on Microsoft

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U.K. handset maker Sendo said Thursday it has dropped Microsoft's smart phone software.

Sendo, one of the earliest hardware partners for Microsoft's Smartphone, will instead license the Symbian operating system, which is backed by all the major handset makers. It will also license Nokia's Series 60 user interface, designed for Symbian.

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