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As part of its efforts to boost sales to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Microsoft is creating blueprints for complete IT infrastructures based on Microsoft products that its partners can sell and deliver to SMBs.
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Web site Ninemsn, a joint venture between the software giant and an Australian media company, says it will sell music from the top five record labels starting early next year.
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The software giant's decision to reveal previously secret pieces of Office reflects growing regulatory and competitive pressures.
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The software maker has convinced carmakers to use its Windows CE operating system to power a variety of in-car electronics, from navigation systems to music players to information devices.
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Mike Sinneck, the company's corporate vice president of worldwide services, plans to move back to the East Coast and "pursue new opportunities outside of Microsoft."
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Yet again, a federal court pushes back the date of a jury trial that will decide whether Microsoft's trademark claim to "windows" will end up shuttering Lindows.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting online conferencing application and instead will push Office Live Meeting, formerly known as PlaceWare, for online meetings.
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The software maker is exploring ways to make search systems a greater part of its Windows operating system and to make searches better tailored to individual needs.
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Industry sites are reporting that Microsoft will be showing off a prototype of the next Xbox, code-named Xenon, in March at the Game Developers Conference.
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Microsoft has appointed a senior executive to a new position in Europe to improve relationships with governments across the continent, a move apparently designed to counter interest in open source software there.
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Microsoft said Friday that it received preliminary approval for settlement in a class-action antitrust suit with consumers in Tennessee.
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The software maker reaches agreements intended to deepen its ties with the Chinese government, even as the country's officials enlist rival Sun in a nationwide open-source push.
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Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay as much as $18.33 million to settle class action lawsuits in North Dakota and South Dakota that alleged the vendor overcharged for its software.
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The Danish government is acting as a central repository for the XML schemas for Microsoft Word 2003. At the same time, Microsoft has made its Word schemas downloadable from its own Web site. And Microsoft plans to expand its list of publicly available schemas on December 5, to include those for Excel 2003 and InfoPath 2003, as well, according to the download site.
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Check out Pete Rysavy's Tabula PC blog. He shows off some screen shots from the new Lonestar Tablet PC OS release and talks up some of the key features, like improved handwriting recognition, a better input panel, and new ink-browser controls.
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Microsoft's online service reached an important milestone when it posted its first quarter of operating profitability--but that doesn't mean its problems are behind it.
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Microsoft launched a beta of its new MSN Newsbot online news service yesterday. MSN Newsbot has no connection with MSNBot, the prototype Web crawler from the same MSN Search team working on MSN Newsbot.
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The software giant confirms plans that it will launch its own music-download store, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple's iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores.
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The software giant experiments with an international news search service in competition with Google's, upping the ante in the hotly contested Web search market.
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