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When Office 12 debuts in 2006+, an Excel Server, Visio Server and other brand-new servers are expected in the line-up.
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January 15, 2005 -- a Saturday -- will almost certainly pass quietly on the bucolic Redmond, Washington, campus of Microsoft Corp. But for those in the field of information technology security, who often make a sport of following the company's struggles to secure its products, the date is certain to attract some notice: it's the third anniversary of a now-famous internal Microsoft e-mail dubbed the "Trustworthy Computing" memo.
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At least one vendor is selling OEM copies of the new Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 operating system online, possibly exploiting a loophole in Microsoft's contracts.
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Bill Gates unveils plans to make Media Center software the centerpiece of the digital home.
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Software maker heads to LA to show off a host of gadgets that use one or another Microsoft technology to access movies, music and video.
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CANNES, FRANCE -- Microsoft Corp. still hopes to settle with the European Commission over the sanctions ordered against it to correct its anticompetitive behavior, even as its appeal of the case winds its way through the legal channels, a senior company executive said Monday.
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Microsoft Corp. is behind schedule in complying with a court order to document its proprietary communications protocols, according to U.S. authorities monitoring its behavior. It also plans to release the documents in a file format that cannot be annotated, and can only be used with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, they said in a report published Friday.
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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Friday are publishing a specification to leverage Web services for managing a broad range of IT systems including PCs and devices on a network.
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Microsoft Corp. is expanding its efforts to move from a "trade secrets" company to one that banks on sharing its intellectual property (IP) and benefits from being seen as a more cooperative and open-industry player.
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The next-generation OS will allow consumers to watch one channel while recording another, CNET News.com has learned.
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PalmOne Inc. has licensed technology from Microsoft Corp. to make its devices work directly with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server, the companies said Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Though a Friday patent lawsuit verdict against Sun Microsystems Inc. could potentially have a wide-ranging impact on the computer industry, the ruling appears unlikely to affect three of the world's largest IT companies, who have licensed the technology in question. Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are licensees of the software patents in question, the patents' owner, Eastman Kodak Co., confirmed Monday.
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Retail-oriented version of Windows XP Embedded will be designed to make it easier to process sales from registers, kiosks and other devices.
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Microsoft has invited a handful of select "industry insiders" (including some Webloggers, researchers and others) to a private search-preview event called "Search Champswhich" will be held in Redmond next week.
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Company Chairman Bill Gates says "this malware thing is so bad" the software giant plans to offer its own tools.
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LUXEMBOURG -- The war of words over Microsoft Corp.'s business practices continued at a Luxembourg court on Friday with the its opponents arguing that unless the company offers a version its operating system without Windows Media Player, Microsoft will extend its quasi-monopoly in the PC market over the digital media sector.
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A select group of testers next week will get an early look at MSN Messenger 7.0, the next version of Microsoft Corp.'s popular instant messaging client.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office initially rejects Microsoft's patent claims on the FAT file system, leaving the door open for the company to support or amend its claims.
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Day one of a two-day hearing focuses on whether the software juggernaut should have to share information with rivals.
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