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While Microsoft execs mentioned Longhorn in passing during their presentations to press and analysts at the Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond on Thursday, no one breathed a word about Microsoft's Office 12, the next major release of Office, expected to ship in the 2006+ timeframe.
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REDMOND, WASHINGTON - Aiming to foil the advent of Linux and attack software piracy in emerging markets, Microsoft plans to expand its cheap Windows XP Starter Edition offer to more countries, a company executive said Thursday.
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REDMOND, WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. is looking to turn security from a "concern" into a "business asset" and "opportunity" for the company through software enhancements and management applications, the software maker's chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said Thursday.
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But with Longhorn still far afield, the company has to find a way to get more people to buy more PCs.
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A French executive for the software giant revealed some features of the company's planned entry into the antivirus market.
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Set-top box descendant of WebTV will be pitched at tech-savvy home networkers rather than tech neophytes.
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Microsoft Corp. is testing a Web-based MSN Messenger client that will allow users to connect to the instant messaging (IM) service without the need to install a client application.
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Microsoft's "Yukon" SQL Server database update includes support for 64-bit x86 platforms, as well as improved productivity, security and business intelligence.
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The next step in Microsoft Corp.'s efforts to delay or reverse anticompetition sanctions imposed by the European Union's (E.U.'s) executive branch comes on Tuesday in Luxembourg when officials from the software maker and the European Commission are set to attend an "informal meeting" with the president of the European Court of First Instance (CFI), Bo Vesterdorf.
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The Redmondians have been hinting that they are planning to open source more of their technologies. The $64,000 question has been "Which ones"?
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Digital Silence has posted an editorial discussing Microsoft's recent announcement of how they are going to deal with their excessive cash situation.
Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that it plans to hire as many as 7,000 people in its current fiscal year and increase spending on research and development. The software maker also said it is talking to potential buyers for Slate, its online magazine.
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Microsoft Corp. will soon put some bite into its Sender ID antispam plans by checking e-mail messages sent to its Hotmail, MSN and Microsoft.com mail accounts to see if they come from valid e-mail servers, as identified by the Sender ID, according to a company executive.
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Who wants 2GB of e-mail storage? Some customers to free Hotmail were inadvertently upgraded, but Microsoft soon pulled the plug.
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Buoyed by strong PC sales, company posts better-than-expected revenue, though earnings fall short of what some investors were hoping for.
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Officials say the company's new cash-management plan to return almost $75 billion in capital to its shareholders over the next four years won't hurt employees, and that Microsoft will continue investing heavily in R&D.
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U.K.-based BTG Plc has sued Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. for allegedly infringing a patent that covers Web-enabled software update technologies, the company announced Wednesday.
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There's a new Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) under development at Microsoft, that is designed to be a replacement to the current, Windows Driver Model.
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