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Users of Microsoft's home set-top box are inadvertently calling emergency services after falling prey to a prank program that changes their dialup number to 911.

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MICROSOFT THURSDAY SAID fourth-quarter sales grew from a year ago thanks to increased sales of its Windows and Office software products, but the company wrote off loses due to sour investments, which cut into profits.

For its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, Microsoft reported revenue of $7.25 billion, a 10 percent increase over its reported $6.58 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001, the company said in a statement.
 

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THE NEXT VERSION of Microsoft's MSN Internet access software is due for release by the end of the year and for some users will sport a significant new feature -- a price tag.

The company is readying the release of MSN 8.0, its password-protected Internet software that allows users to access MSN e-mail accounts, news and entertainment content and browse the Web. Along with its Internet access service, the software competes against that of America Online. 

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In its never-ending campaign for the Internet crown, Microsoft is showing off a test version of MSN 8.0, its latest service to take on industry rivals America Online and Yahoo.

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THE NEXT VERSION of Microsoft's Exchange server software, code-named "Titanium," is scheduled for availability in mid-2003 and will be released to hold customers over before shipping a future version of the software based on its .Net code, according to company executives. 

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COMSHARE HAS TEAMED up with Microsoft in a partnership that will combine Comshare's CPM (corporate performance management) software with Microsoft's BI (business intelligence) platform to help companies bridge the gap between top-level strategy and operating budgets and forecasts.

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MICROSOFT IN THE late-2003 timeframe plans to release the next version of the .Net Framework, code-named Whidbey, a company spokesman confirmed on Monday.

The major release of the company's Web development framework is expected to feature rapid application design for Web services, based on work from the company's Global XML Web Services Architecture toolkit team, according to a Microsoft spokesman.

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