Granting a request by the nonprofit Public Patent Foundation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine the patent the company holds on the file allocation system file system a move that could ultimately deal a heavy blow to the company's IP rights.
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In an apparent setback for WebEx Communications, U.K. telecommunications company BT Group is now promoting Microsoft's Live Meeting as its primary Web conferencing service.
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From mapping the shortest distance to a destination to weeding out Web page spam, researchers at the largest software maker say they are aiming to make technology more useful.
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Prosecutor turned Microsoft attorney Hemanshu Nigam explains what's behind the company's decision to offer financial rewards for information leading to virus writers' capture.
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Better not get too fancy with your grocery list, now that Microsoft has patented a glorified form of the to-do list.
U.S. Patent No. 6,748,582, granted and assigned Tuesday to Microsoft, covers the use of a "task list" in a software development environment.
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U.S. Patent No. 6,748,582, granted and assigned Tuesday to Microsoft, covers the use of a "task list" in a software development environment.
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Microsoft filed a blistering brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a $565 million patent infringement judgment.
The 174-page document, filed June 3, attacks a U.S. District Court decision that said Microsoft violated a patent, owned by the University of California and its Eolas spinoff. The patent describes how a Web browser can run plug-in applications.
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The 174-page document, filed June 3, attacks a U.S. District Court decision that said Microsoft violated a patent, owned by the University of California and its Eolas spinoff. The patent describes how a Web browser can run plug-in applications.
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Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered.
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As part of its bid for a foothold in the enterprise applications market, Microsoft Corp. initiated merger discussions late last year with ERP (enterprise resource planning) leader SAP AG. The talks ended several months ago after Microsoft decided the deal and the post-union integration would be too risky.
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Microsoft Corp.'s plans for a common set of services that promise its server platform products will work better together are being met with skepticism.
The Redmond, Wash., company next year will begin rolling out products for the Windows Server System family based on Microsoft's Common Engineering Roadmap, officials said.
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The Redmond, Wash., company next year will begin rolling out products for the Windows Server System family based on Microsoft's Common Engineering Roadmap, officials said.
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When indications of a worm exploiting the LSASS vulnerability in Windows surfaced April 30, the staff at Microsoft Corp.'s Security Response Center didn't hesitate; they knew exactly what to do.
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Brian Johnson talks with Brian Harry at Tech-Ed 2004 about the announcement of Team System, a suite of software development lifecycle tools for enterprise teams that will help with project management, quality assurance, work item tracking, and more.
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The second beta of the 2005 release of Windows XP Media Center Edition is now available to testers, Neowin is reporting.
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SAN JOSE, California -- In its continuing fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Microsoft Corp. plans to filter outgoing messages on its consumer mail services and is busy developing new "proofing" technologies, the software maker's chief spam fighter said Thursday.
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Microsoft has tweaked its chain of command in a move to strengthen a division of the company that makes accounting software and tools for handling other corporate functions.
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Microsoft on Thursday notified 177 employees in its Findlay, Ohio, offices that it's closing the facility and eliminating some of their positions, a company executive has confirmed.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- Microsoft Corp. is planning a number of moves that will increase and potentially consolidate its development activities in India, according to company officials and sources.
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Microsoft inched closer to the BI applications space on Wednesday with the release of two BI accelerators for SQL Server 2000 and SharePoint Portal Server.
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Microsoft plans to file next week its formal appeal of a European Union ruling that the software giant violated antitrust law and should be fined and made to curtail its business practices.
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Microsoft released the first test version of its new Windows Media Player software Wednesday, marking a significant upgrade aimed squarely at the burgeoning portable device market.
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