The e-tail giant is expected to announce a deal Thursday to use the latest version of the software giant's digital media technology to stream music samples from its Web site.
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Microsoft has posted for download a first beta of its Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer.
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Cost-conscious buyers help boost Microsoft's database revenue, despite a 7 percent slide in the overall market, a new study says.
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Microsoft Research (MSR) projects tend to show up in products - and usually sooner, rather than later. This week, MSR is hosting a research road show in Washington, DC. Check out some of the interesting morsels that MSR has on its plate, via our collection of articles from Microsoft Watch , other Ziff Davis sites, and random places around the Web.
This report will be updated throughout the week, so check back often!
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Microsoft Research is trying to bring it back, but as a blogging aid, this time around. Could autoblogging, a k a automatic weblogging, be the next big thing?
Marc Smith seems to think so. The Microsoft researcher and his team have developed a tool called Aura that is designed to help users automatically blog anything with a barcode label.
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Marc Smith seems to think so. The Microsoft researcher and his team have developed a tool called Aura that is designed to help users automatically blog anything with a barcode label.
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Microsoft said Monday that electronics retailer Circuit City Stores will use an embedded version of Windows XP to power a new generation of cash registers.
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CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos explains why the software company is scaling down its ambitions when it comes to convincing the rest of the computer industry to adopt design changes.
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Who will emerge as the king of the desktop OS jungle: Apple's Panther or Microsoft's Longhorn?
Sorry, Linux desktop fans: When it comes to desktop operating systems, it's currently a two-way race between Windows and the Mac OS. While Microsoft's market share dwarfs Apple's, the GUI diehards have keep each other busy for nearly two decades-and end users have regularly reaped the benefits of that competition, thanks to upgrades designed to top the competition's features and performance.
This week, the cross-platform debate's been hot and heavy. Is Microsoft racing to catch up to Panther, the Mac OS X upgrade due to roll out at June's Worldwide Developers Conference? Should Apple be running scared after Microsoft's demos of its Longhorn OS at last week's Windows Hardware Engineering conference?
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Sorry, Linux desktop fans: When it comes to desktop operating systems, it's currently a two-way race between Windows and the Mac OS. While Microsoft's market share dwarfs Apple's, the GUI diehards have keep each other busy for nearly two decades-and end users have regularly reaped the benefits of that competition, thanks to upgrades designed to top the competition's features and performance.
This week, the cross-platform debate's been hot and heavy. Is Microsoft racing to catch up to Panther, the Mac OS X upgrade due to roll out at June's Worldwide Developers Conference? Should Apple be running scared after Microsoft's demos of its Longhorn OS at last week's Windows Hardware Engineering conference?
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Losses in Microsoft Corp.'s entertainment division widened compared to a year ago, according to a company regulatory filing on Monday. The division includes Microsoft's Xbox game console, entertainment software, gaming hardware, and television division.
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It will be all sports games, all the time on Microsoft's new Xbox Sports Network (XSN). Watch for the new online gaming service to debut in August, say the folks over at Gamers.com.
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NeoWin has posted some news on Microsoft's PC Satisfaction
Microsoft Corp.'s net income in the last quarter would have been almost a quarter lower if it had expensed employee stock options, the world's largest software maker said in a regulatory filing on Monday.
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Microsoft faces a possible investigation and significant fines for a security lapse that could have exposed the personal information of millions of consumers.
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We've all seen the utilities designed to monitor what's running on your PC-startup managers, firewalls, antivirus packages, and the like. They work to varying degrees, protecting users from malware, but are far from foolproof. You have to be able to trust the safety of what you put on your PC, though.
At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC 2003) in New Orleans, Microsoft is trying to garner support for its proposed solution, the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB). With NGSCB, your computer always ensures the safety of data and applications you deem critical.
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At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC 2003) in New Orleans, Microsoft is trying to garner support for its proposed solution, the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB). With NGSCB, your computer always ensures the safety of data and applications you deem critical.
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Microsoft seeks to enable development of PCs with advanced graphics and sleeker, smaller designs that will entice users, said Will Poole, senior vice president of the Windows Client Division at Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash. Poole discussed the company’s goals during a keynote presentation here at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) on Wednesday morning.
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Athens is a conceptual product from Microsoft and HP and is designed to demonstrate the future of PC hardware, but haven't we seen its like before?
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Microsoft on Thursday plans to unveil new antispam tools for its MSN and Hotmail services, noting that it now blocks 2.4 billion e-mail messages targeting subscriber in-boxes every day.
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Microsoft plans to offer corporate customers a version of its Dr. Watson error reporting tool to help administrators pinpoint and solve software problems, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday.
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Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, as Palladium is now known, has been shown running applications for the first time
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