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Microsoft pushed out a new release of its business portal software that aims to deliver new self-service features for employees and help companies dynamically adjust to changing conditions by using key performance indicators.
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While Microsoft officials have referred to MSN 9.0 as a "fiscal 2004" deliverable, company watchers expected Microsoft to deliver the next major update to its Internet service during calendar 2003. But according to the MSN 9.0 beta invite that just went out, Microsoft is planning for the beta to run at least through January of 2004.
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As part of its effort to stop the MSBlast worm, the software giant is eliminating the Windowsupdate.com address that the self-propagating program was set to attack.
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Microsoft and partner OD2 choose Europe as the launch pad for an iTunes-like digital download store that sells songs via a tab in Media Player software.
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The Australian government will gain access to the source code underlying Microsoft's Windows operating system after signing an agreement with the software heavyweight.
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A heavy hint at the release date for Microsoft Office 2003 and its pricing in the United Kingdom have appeared online, in what appears to be an e-commerce mix-up.
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The giant hopes to be ready when hundreds of thousands of computers infected with the MSBlast worm start pelting its Windows Update service with data requests on midnight Friday.
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This one's not over yet (And by the time it is, ActiveX will probably be a dead technology, anyway.) Eolas, the company that sued Microsoft back in 1999 for alleged violation of its browser plug-in patent, was awarded $521 million by a Chicago jury on Monday. Microsoft was quick to point out that the award was substantially less than the $1.2 billion that Eolas had sought. And Redmond officials already are working on an appeal.
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A top executive has left Motorola to head the software giant's operations in China, according to a report.
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Thanks Mark for this one:
Microsoft's new computer mice, due in September, will take scrolling in a new directionsideways.
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Microsoft Corp. wants more details on how its products are used so it can make its applications "almost entirely crash-free" and build features users want, the company said Monday.
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Microsoft is preparing to launch next month the beta for Microsoft Installer 3.0. The new software-installation program is a key component of Microsoft's evolving strategy to simplify patch-management across its entire product line.
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With Office 2003, Microsoft will give certain Office Standard Edition users the right to order Office Professional Edition applications at no extra cost.
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Analysts expect Microsoft to reveal within the next few weeks the pricing of and a release date for the updated version of its Office software.
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The software giant announces the cost for Live Communications Server 2003, its upcoming enterprise instant-messaging application.
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Microsoft is boasting that it has surpassed Java usage with .Net and is preparing to make its application development platform more conducive to Web services.
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With pressure from European antitrust regulators mounting, the software giant's bid to make its multimedia technology a worldwide standard may be running into a headwind.
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The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications.
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