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| STORIES ABOUT: Microsoft |
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| Microsoft Warns about Myanmar Support Phishing Scams |  | Last week, we brought you reports about the terrible disaster that had hit Myanmar the weekend before. We also followed Google's actions towards helping the victims of Myanmar. As most of you already know, Google has put in a considerable effort to make ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 11:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Not Replacing Adobe Flash with Silverlight |  | Microsoft is not replacing rival RIA technology Flash from Adobe with its own equivalent Silverlight across the entire span of its web properties. But this is merely a temporary situation representatives from the Redmond company explained. The question is of c ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Warns Customers of “High-End” Pirated Software |  | Microsoft has warned consumers to exercise caution and be wary of what it referred to as "high-end" pirated products. According to the Redmond company, end users and small businesses are the most likely to fall victim to counterfeiters dealing with high-quality bootlegged software. Illustrative examples of high-end piracy are three retail outlets in Sim Lim Square, Singapore, which were raided by local authorities. Microsoft reve ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Attacks Sony on PlayStation 3 Statements |  | At last week’s PlayStation Day Europe event the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, declared that the PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in Europe when talking about absolute sales numbers. Now Microsoft's own Aaron Greenberg is answering Sony on those claims ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 09:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First Taste of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta |  | Microsoft's 2008 service pack extravaganza is by no means limited to its flagship products, the Windows operating system and the Office suite. With Window Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3 and Office 2007 SP1 out of the way, it is now time for the latest version of the company's suite of development products to get updated. With Visual Studio 2008 released to manufacturing at the end of 2007 and to the general public on[ ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Appeal Against 899 Million Euro Fine a Long Shot |  | Microsoft made a new move at the end of the past week designed to take the European Union financial penalties saga one step further. The Redmond company has had a rough ride in the European arena cumulating a total of $2.5 billion worth of fines, but it has not hesitated to raise the stakes in its apparently continuous face-off with the EU Antitrust Commission by lodging an appeal against the latest financial penalty issued on February 27, ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Viva Pinata 2 Screenshots Leaked |  | I doubt we can call this a huge surprise: everybody just knew that a sequel to Viva Pinata would be developed sooner or later. And it seems that those going with "sooner" are the winners, since we have a leaked pack of seven screenshots from what seems to be the second installment of Viva Pinata. Keeping in mind that all the screenshots followed the Microsoft Press Conference (the same that had as a result the leak of s ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 to Sponsor National Family Fitness Day |  | If you were thinking that the only console which can be associated with the idea of fitness is Nintendo's Wii, you were wrong: Microsoft has just got the lead[SDMARK=1] and jumped in with the Xbox 360 to sponsor the first ever National Family Fitness Day which will take plac ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Will Build an Ubiquitous Computing Environment in the “City of the Future” |  | Microsoft will be responsible for building an ubiquitous computing environment in the "City of the Future." The Redmond company announced that its technology would be at the heart of Songdo, a new South Korean city being built 40 miles southwest of Seoul. Microsoft Solutions will cover various technological aspects of the Songdo International Business District and will be made available to citizens, government, as well as for ed ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 12:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Over 5,000 Products Certified for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) |  | One of the main aspects that hurt Windows Vista RTM and the adoption of the operating system was poor support from the environment of products orbiting the platforms in comparison to Windows XP. The fact is that the vast majority of software and hardware solutions available on the market when Vista hit the shelves in January 2008 were tailored to XP, and end users came across a plethora of issues when attempting to integrate exis ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| When Microsoft Ninjas Attack |  | No, Microsoft ninjas are not a secret project, a new solution, application or service. They are just employees on the payroll, walking the hallways of Microsoft buildings on a daily basis. Ninjas are normally not among standard personal in an IT company, and the Redmond giant makes by no means an exception to this rule. But this is not to say that the impossible can't happen, and loyal to the slogan "never say never," Micros ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 11:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OpenOffice 3 Beta out and Waiting for Download |  | A new beta version of OpenOffice, the famous open source alternative to Microsoft Office, was officially rolled out. OpenOffice 3 Beta 1 comes with several new functions supposed to be included in the final version of the application, scheduled for release in September 2008. Among the new features, one of the most important functions is surely the Mac OS X support which now allows Mac users to install and run the Office suite wit ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Romanian Pirate Goes Behind Bars |  | Although it happens in various countries in the world, a Romanian pirate thought it could never happen to him: Kiss Adalbert Daniel, 28-year-old, was found guilty of possession with the purpose of distribution of pirated materials and received a sentence of five years and six months in jail. Beside that, the pirate has to pay huge fines, namely more than 50,000 euros to Microsoft and 77,000 euros to Autodesk Inc.
What's i ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Put the Spotlight on Central and Eastern Europe |  | Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is scheduled to undertake an extended tour of Central and Eastern Europe between 19 and 24 May, 2008. The series of visits in the region will be a first for Microsoft's CEO, and according to Vahé Torossian, regional vice president of Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe and vice president, Microsoft International, Ballmer's presence is designed to emphasize the global impo ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Offers Support for Cyclone Victims in Myanmar |  | With the death toll estimated to rise as high as 100,000 from the initial official tally of just 22,500, Myanmar is in dire need of international help. And while governments and humanitarian associations are already working with the country’s military leaders for the streamlining of the process of delivering relief supplies, Microsoft is ready to join the action. In this context, the Redmond company announced new initiatives desi ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Introducing the Popfly Game Creator |  | Game development, like it or not, remains a territory largely off limits as it involves hard coding. And if this is the general rule, Microsoft offers the exception. The Redmond company has evolved its web and mashup tool in order to accommodate game creation. Now, the fact of the matter is that users won't be able to create their very own sequel to a preferred title, but Popfly will enable the creation of simple, casual games without ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 12:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft “Hacking” Its Own Websites |  | Believe it or not: Microsoft is hacking its own websites, according to Viral Tarpara, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist. Well, hacking may not be the exact word to describe what the Redmond company is doing, but it does somehow explain the screeenshot provided toward the bottom of this article. Instead of the official Microsoft UK websites, v ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Search Is as Well as Inexistent in Europe |  | Microsoft's search properties, with Live Search at the forefront, are as well as inexistent in Europe. The Redmond company has a share of just 1.9% of all the volume of searches in Europe, which makes Microsoft an insignificant player. In March 2008, according to statistics released by comScore, Microsoft managed to attract only 469 million searches in Europe. This is nothing compared with the 19,434 billion queries that wer ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Offers “Save as DAISY XML” Add-in for Office Word |  | The "Save as DAISY XML" add-in is a solution designed to integrate with various versions of the Office Word application in order to enable users with vision disabilities to access content in the most common assistive technology format in the world. Put together by Microsoft, Sonata Software and the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium, the "Save as DAISY XML" add-in can be used with Office ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Switches Yahoo Strategy for Organic Pipe-Dream |  | From the start of February and until the debut of May, Microsoft's new strategy on the search engine and online advertising markets seemed focused on the acquisition and integration of Yahoo as a key component. Microsoft insisted all along that the Sunnyvale Internet giant was just an aspect of its evolution, and not the sole solution to throw against Google, and that it had additional aces up its sleeve. With Chief Executiv ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Live Search: Simple and Powerful. Human. Fast |  | Starting mid-April, Microsoft has introduced the new stage in the evolution of Live Search. The release affected not only the core Live Search engine, but also additional components of the Redmond company's web search services including News, Video, and Products. The revamped search experience is not limited to an under-the-hood evolution, as Evan Malahy, Designer, Live Search revealed, also featuring relevant changes in ter ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista SP1 Only a Piece of the Microsoft Anti-Piracy Puzzle |  | With Windows Vista and the close integration of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism, Microsoft has taken an option to actively protect the operating system against piracy, on top of what activation has to offer. And while Service Pack 1 for Vista removed the Reduced Functionality Mode kill-switch from the latest Windows client, as the Redmond company applauded the evolution of its anti-piracy measures, Microsoft has additiona ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Build Yourself a Surface Computer for Only $500 |  | Microsoft's revolutionary Surface computers have already hit the shelves of a few selected companies such as AT&T and it seems that this kind of approach will revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. The extremely intuitive software teams up with a natural user interfa ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is Xbox 360 GTA IV Outselling the PS3 Version? |  | As the wait for GTA IV came to a close last week and as a result of the furious marketing campaign for the game that only featured the Microsoft Xbox 360, even if the game is also playable on the PlayStation 3, a lot of people have been wondering which console would profit from t ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 |  | The second Community Technology Preview of Windows PowerShell V2 is now available for download. Designed as the successor of Windows PowerShell 1.0, Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 also marks a consistent evolution in comparison with the initial Community Technology Preview release. As such, it delivers new features, along with extended usability. In this manner, Microsoft offers a more mature command line shell and scripting language that enab ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Steve Ballmer: 5 Reasons Why a Yahoo and Google Marriage Is Bad |  | Yahoo never said no to an unsolicited marriage proposal from Microsoft dating back to February 1, 2008, instead it just wanted a bigger dowry. After initially asking for over $40 per share, namely in excess of $60 billion, Yahoo would have joined up with Microsoft for as "little" as $37 per share or "just" $55 billion. Microsoft agreed to pay just $34 per share, and not a dime over $50 billion according to Chi ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Pro Photo Tools - for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 |  | Digital photographers that are using Windows as their operating system of choice have a new toy from Microsoft to play around with. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools version 1 was dropped at the end of the past month, and is essentially set up as a utility that will allow advanced editing of metadata in digital photographs. According to the Redmond company, the tool only supports the 32-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2. Neither the ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 05:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Wanted $55 Billion, Microsoft Offered Only $50 Billion |  | What's $5 billion among friends? Well, nothing more than a deal breaker. $5 billion were more than enough for Microsoft to walk away from Yahoo. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed the Redmond company's decision this past weekend following the final round of failed negotiations with the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant. The acquisition ballet debuted at the start of February 1, 2008, ended on May 3 wi ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 03:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo on the Microsoft Acquisition: What Doesn't Kill You Only Makes You Stronger... |  | Following Microsoft's interest in buying Yahoo and the Redmond-based company's withdrawal, Jerry Yang, CEO & Chief Yahoo, admitted that the latest few weeks were quite important for the Sunnyvale-based firm and, even if the company has been under the world's spotlights, this may also be a good thing.
Some people say that an alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo would have brought a very powerful company that ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 02:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Releases a Set of 12 New Windows Wallpapers |  | What better way to celebrate the gold versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 than with a set of brand new wallpapers straight from Microsoft? And by all means, Microsoft has its own separate agenda with the wallpapers, but that shouldn't stop end users from integrating them with their favorite service pack. The fact of the matter is that as far as the Redmond company is concerned the wallpapers are inti ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2008, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Cuts Xbox 360 Prices in Asia |  | Following the price cuts of the Xbox 360 console in Europe, Microsoft decided it was time to reduce the prices in four Asian markets in order to help their console sell better and fend off market-share declines against Nintendo and Sony. Probably, their price cuts in Europ ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Statistical Language Modeling Methods Deliver New Text-Input Experiences |  | Microsoft's statistical language modeling methods will deliver new text-input user experiences to devices powered by text-input solutions from Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software. The Redmond company announced that it licensed its patents for statistical language modeling methods to Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software in order to evolve the China-based company's text-input engine. Komoxo's next-generation text-input engine, now featur ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 07:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft: No Extra Cash for Yahoo Just Because We Can Afford It |  | Chris Liddell, Microsoft's chief financial officer revealed that the Redmond company would not offer anything on top of the initial $44.6 takeover bid for Yahoo simply because it can afford to do so. In this manner, Liddell crushed speculations that Microsoft was going to sweeten the deal it had offered Yahoo at the beginning of February 2008. However, there are additional avenues of approach for the Redmond company in its attempt to ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 13:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| $14.45 Billion Q3 Revenue for Microsoft, $68.0 Billion by Mid-2008 |  | On April 24, 2008, Microsoft reported what it referred to as a record third-quarter revenue of $14.45 billion. This figure is correlated with an operating income of $4.41 billion, which translates into diluted earnings per share of just $0.47. Although the Redmond company is presenting record revenue to its shareholders, the fact of the matter is that the financial results of the third-quarter ended on March 31, 2008 are suffering from the ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft: Use Windows Server 2008 RTM for Free, Please |  | Microsoft is exhibiting the generous side of its nature with free Windows Server 2008 offerings. Released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, but labeled Service Pack due to the client-server platform synchronization with Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft is offering free trial versions of Windows Server 2008 for download. And in order to further stimulate users to test-drive Windows Server 2008, the Redmond company is also prepared to offer ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 12:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Thought Skype Was a Virus |  | Trying to open an application but being unable to do that due to an unknown reason is extremely frustrating especially when the application is used for Internet communications. This is exactly what happened to some users a few days ago, as Microsoft's security application wrongly identified Skype as malware.
Since the security tools though the VoIP client is a threat, the program was blocked so users were unable to start ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Offers $20,000 via Future Pro Photo Competition |  | Microsoft is offering photographers the chance of winning the $20,000 Grand Prize and an additional package of rewards via its Future Pro Photographers Photography Contest. Submissions are accepted from all over the world with the exception of residents of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and the Provinc ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Introduces the Xbox 360 Panacea |  | In all fairness, Microsoft's console, the Xbox 360 is by no means a panacea but, at the same time, the Redmond company hopes that it will deliver a positive impact on patients in children’s hospitals. In this regard, Microsoft has joined forces with nonprofit organization Companions in Courage Foundation, and revealed that it is committing a few hundreds of Xbox 360 game kiosks for the benefit of children’s hospitals across the U.S. R ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 12:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New CTP Release of Windows for Supercomputers Available |  | While it has wrapped up Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1/RTM, Microsoft is still hammering away at a bit of unfinished business related to its latest server operating system. Just like Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the successor of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Windows HPC Server 2008 is yet to be finalized. However, Microsoft has reached another milestone this month by making available for down ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 11:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Live Mesh Is Here - Formerly Codenamed Horizon |  | Microsoft's Live Mesh is here, opening new horizons beyond the Windows operating systems and into the cloud, offering a new completely cross-platform perspective and user experience. Essentially, Live Mesh has been designed as a ’software-plus-services’ platform set up to span across a wide variety of devices from PCs, laptops, media devices, mobile phones, game consoles, and even Mac computers. The key concept behind Live Mesh is syn ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Live Messenger's “i'm” Initiative Pulls $1.3M |  | Microsoft’s "i'm" initiative associated by default with the company's instant messaging client has managed to pull in excess of $1.3 million in its first year. The "i'm" initiative was designed to offer a small portion of the advertising revenues received by the Redmond company through the use of ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Is, Once Again, World's Top Brand |  | The analysts of Millward Brown published the BrandZ 2008 Top 100 Brands, revealing that the Mountain View-based super search giant Google is, for the second year in a row, on the first position. Google has topped the table with a brand value of $86,052M and a change of 30 percent in comparison with General Electric that came the second with a brand value of $71,379M and a change of 15 percent.
Microsoft, the Redmond-based soft ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Boosts Profit, Microsoft to Rethink its Acquisition Strategy |  | The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2008, reporting revenues of no less than $1,818 million, an operating income of $121 million and compensation expense of $433 million. According to the report, the marketing services revenues brought $1,572 million in the first quarter of 2008, which represents an increase of 7 percent in comparison with the same period of the last year ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 03:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Ingenuity Point, World Changing Solutions |  | Microsoft is aiming high with its Ingenuity Point challenge addressed at independent software vendors. The Redmond company is looking for no less than examples of software capable of changing the world. April 22, 2008 marks the date when Microsoft announced three winners of Gold Ingenuity Point, in the second round of the competition. Having build software products designed to deliver a global impact in education, healthcare and ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 12:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Inks New Partnerships Designed to Fuel Technology Adoption |  | Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is on a tour of Europe and Africa that will see him visit five different countries at the rate of one per day. Ballmer's visits come together with the inking of new partnerships between Microsoft and governments and local NGOs, designed to fuel technology adoption with a strong focus on Africa. The second annual African Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Best Practices Foru ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft: Find Your Lost adCenter Advertisements |  | Microsoft is currently in a process of overhauling the way it shares information with the users of its advertising website. As an integral part of the revamping process affecting the model of delivering service and operational data, the Redmond company has put together an array of resources, raging from articles to checklists, and even to videos, and has made the ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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