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With touch-computing growing in relevance as part of the general tendency to adopt natural user interfaces (NUI), Microsoft's Business Intelligence solutions could not have been left out of the equation. At the company's recent Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle, a marriage of Microsoft Surface and... |
13 October 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Before the New Xbox Experience, rumors were going around saying that Microsoft was preparing to delist and effectively delete games from their Xbox Live Arcade service. This special section of the Live Marketplace offers small games aimed at casual gamers who want to unwind and aren't keen on playing some blockb... |
13 October 2008
03:46 GMT |
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The New Xbox Experience, or NXE, is one of the biggest updates to Microsoft's console, the Xbox 360. Set to replace the old blade-style dashboard, which has been standard since the launch of the next-gen console, this update will offer you a much more user-friendly experience and, from the Xbox Marketplace to na... |
13 October 2008
02:51 GMT |
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With over 90,000 employees, Microsoft did not have to go very far in order to find a fully-fledged PC Guy. Sean Siler is a Microsoft Program manager for IPv6 and he has taken the role of the real PC Guy. Closely resembling the character played by John Hodgman, Siler is “the star” of Microsoft's I... |
10 October 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is continuing its strategy of making the Xbox 360 the most interesting console of the Christmas holiday season by putting out a host of bundles which should turn the device into a more attractive one to some gamers.The company has not clearly defined all the bundles it plans to release but there are reports... |
10 October 2008
12:31 GMT |
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A new rumor points to the possibility that the Xbox 360 from Microsoft might be getting a Blu-ray drive. These rumors seem to pop up every couple of months, proposing either an internal or an external drive, only to solicit a quick and tough reaction from a Microsoft official who denies the possibility that this will... |
9 October 2008
19:31 GMT |
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Whether or not the results of genomic testing will scare people into a much healthier lifestyle is precisely the focus of a new research alliance featuring the Scripps Translational Science Institute, Navigenics, Affymetrix and Microsoft. Personal genetic tests are designed to deliver a perspective on the potential r... |
9 October 2008
09:27 GMT |
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For Microsoft, the first inhouse documenting of Threat Modeling took place all the way back in 1999 via “Threats to our software” authored by Jason Garms, Praerit Garg and Michael Howard. With time, the methodology evolved and culminated with the introduction of the Security Development Lifecycle. Threat ... |
9 October 2008
07:44 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering no less than $101,000 worth of prizes for devices taking advantage of the company's .NET Micro Framework. Via Microsoft's Dare to Dream Different Challenge, developers leveraging the Micro version of the Redmond giant's .NET runtime environment will have a chance not only to win g... |
9 October 2008
07:07 GMT |
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Oh, Microsoft, only you can make a very exciting announcement about a new Halo game duller than watching grass grow. Microsoft has denied Bungie the possibility to reveal their latest project at E3, apparently because the Redmond giant thought it had more interesting things to show (like what? Oh , yeah, Final Fanta... |
9 October 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Microsoft sure had a lot of things prepared for the Tokyo Game Show. After teaming up with Square Enix and deploying one of the biggest stands at the presentation, racking up almost 140 demo booths for its Xbox 360 console, the company made its top announcements yesterday, during its TGS keynote. First of all, the ne... |
9 October 2008
03:47 GMT |
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The Tokyo Game Show is starting today and it is one of the biggest conventions in Asia in terms of games and title developers. All of the major local developers and publishers have announced their presence, including some western ones, like Microsoft. The Redmond company is looking to improve its sales in this countr... |
8 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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I myself confess that videogames got me interested in history and geopolitics. Old classics like Age of Empire and Colonization made me very interested in the era they take place and in the mechanisms of the worldwide political systems.Microsoft Research, together with the New York University and a consortium of othe... |
8 October 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Just as Windows is the dominant presence on the operating system market while Linux is the underdog, so Microsoft is search leader in enterprise environments, while Google is but a challenger. As of the end of September 2008, market analysis firm Gartner placed Microsoft at the top of the enterprise search food chain... |
8 October 2008
07:49 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to develop and introduce strategies designed to increase its share of the search engine market, and the latest initiative involving an evolution to the existing partnership with Facebook is by no means an exception from the trend. Following the launching of the SearchPerks program at the start of ... |
8 October 2008
05:42 GMT |
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Via a partnership with BroadSoft, Microsoft is fueling Cloud computing initiatives, while at the same time establishing a new foothold for its Software + Services business strategy. The two companies have put together a unified communications offering that involves a marriage between BroadSoft’s BroadWorks busi... |
7 October 2008
11:46 GMT |
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The Microsoft team that is dealing with the new Xbox Live Experience, which is set to debut sometime in November, has offered up details on how the Game Store is set to be changed. The revamp is aimed at making the interface powering the Xbox 360 more familiar and more attractive for casual users.The current Game St... |
7 October 2008
09:00 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said that the Xbox 360 gaming console is “an absolute home run”. He believes that the recent move to cut the prices of the device to make it competitive with the Nintendo made Wii console is a sign of good business acumen and not one of desperation, as some ... |
7 October 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Virtualization is not the only technology that Microsoft is attempting to democratize, as the Redmond giant is also focusing on making Business Intelligence solutions mainstream. In Microsoft's perspective, the key ingredient to the recipe of making BI solutions digestible across all enterprises is the user-frie... |
6 October 2008
10:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has partnered with GoDaddy.com in order to introduce a new offering to small businesses based on Outlook and Exchange Server 2007. In this regard, the largest registrar of domains worldwide has announced that it is launching a new hosted email plan for small business customers with the Redmond giant's ... |
6 October 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Webalo, Inc., a Californian developer of software applications, has just announced that users of Microsoft's Business Intelligence platform (also known as Microsoft BI), can, from now on, access business reports via about any modern mobile device. This is done via the Webalo Mobile Dashboard, which is avai... |
6 October 2008
09:50 GMT |
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Just in time for the holiday season, Microsoft is getting ready to take the fall 2008 adCenter upgrade out of the oven. adCenter customers are right on track to receiving a new set of features, which the Redmond giant revealed as the result of their feedback. This is a clear indication that Microsoft is indeed liste... |
6 October 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft was one of the players who intervened into the matters of the U.S. House of Representatives, indicating a strong support for a piece of banking legislation designed to provide a breath of fresh air for the collapsing U.S. financial sector. In September, following the rejection of the first draft of the $700... |
6 October 2008
06:15 GMT |
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While the first Beta taste of Windows 7 is planned for the end of 2008, the gold build of Windows Vista's successor is expected to have a general availability date set for 2009. Officially, Microsoft is sticking to its “by January 30 2010” or “three years after the general availability of Vista... |
6 October 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 is going to be a very big game for the Xbox 360, one that will surely have high sales and will lead the console through the holiday season. The guys at Epic Games have really worked hard with Microsoft to deliver an excellent shooter experience and to give loads of free goodies to the gamers. Such is t... |
6 October 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Following the Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld video ads, and the I'm a PC commercials, Microsoft has provided ample proof that it does have a sense of humor and, at the same time, that it is not timid about making fun of itself. The “PDC 2008 is coming” video is just the latest proof of this, pro... |
3 October 2008
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Microsoft has started implementing the Wave 3 release of Windows Live Hotmail, and the rolling out process is continuing even now. However, it appears that the Redmond company has run into a variety of problems, which are not widespread at this point in time thanks to the gradual release of the latest version of the ... |
3 October 2008
10:10 GMT |
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You would think that, just because two companies are active in two different market segments, they wouldn’t have bad things to say about each other, especially if said companies also happen to be two of the biggest players in the IT market, Intel and Microsoft. Well, recent reports show that at least one of the... |
3 October 2008
03:22 GMT |
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The cloud computing concept is gaining more followers each passing day, as major companies in the IT industry, including Google, Intel, IBM and others have already made the initial steps in the development and future adoption of a cloud computing solution. Microsoft is also highly interested in the phenomenon, a fact... |
2 October 2008
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The Halo franchise is very important to Microsoft. That being said, with the last title from Master Chief's saga Halo 3 having been launched a year ago and having set new records in terms of sales and popularity, the Redmond based company couldn't leave this series of games to rest. It is already developing... |
2 October 2008
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You have to love Peter Molyneux. If he isn't praising the high quality and innovation of his games, he's praising the console for which he is working on, the Xbox 360. While speaking in a recent interview with VideoGamer, he went on to analyze Microsoft's console against Sony's PlayStation 3. Gues... |
1 October 2008
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You know how people talk about new consoles being launched sometime in 2014 or even later? Nintendo might disagree with that. Sources have been talking to gaming site What They Play saying that the console developer is creating a new product, called the Wii HD, which will represent a significant upgrade over the curr... |
1 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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The latest promotion built around Live Search cannot be accessed with Firefox or Opera. In fact, Microsoft has cut all third party browsers out of the equation, as only users of Internet Explorer, version 6.0 and above, will be able to sign up for SearchPerks. The latest initiative from the Redmond giant designed to ... |
1 October 2008
07:05 GMT |
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This year was full of surprises, as far as the mobile phones industry is concerned. Among others, there was – and still is – the problem of the operating systems that the handhelds use, as some of them are free, while others not. Google has already introduced its Android Platform on the mobile market, whi... |
1 October 2008
05:58 GMT |
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With word on the web that Apple's portable computers are gaining ground on Windows, even Microsoft-focused bloggers are talking about it. While “Windows laptops are losing luster, Mac laptops are making surprising gains,” eWeek Microsoft Watch blogger Joe Wilcox has noticed, having moved to a 20-perc... |
1 October 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 is going to be a very big game for the Xbox 360 this holiday season. Promising to bring back the action packed, testosterone filled gameplay from the first title, it will definitely be a best seller. But if there's still money to be made, why not go that extra mile, asked Microsoft. And so it has... |
1 October 2008
02:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is really stressing the importance of its fall update to the Xbox 360, especially the long awaited New Xbox Experience. Essentially a revamp of the old blade system which is currently employed in the Xbox 360 navigation menu, this promises to bring a much more user friendly experience and to take pers... |
30 September 2008
20:01 GMT |
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Just three months after Bill Gates retired from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is divorcing the company from the motto that helped put it on the map. Ballmer revealed during a Q&A session at The Churchill Club the past week that the Redmond giant had outgrown Bill Gates' ... |
30 September 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Microsoft has allied with the Washington Attorney General Office in the fight against software developers that use scare tactics in order to convince users to buy their so called security products. The Attorney General has agreed to file seven of the lawsuits brought forward by Microsoft.Scareware is a name used to d... |
30 September 2008
08:37 GMT |
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There is an intimate connection between technology and sustainability as far as small businesses are concerned. The conclusion was presented via a KRC Research survey commissioned by Microsoft. The Redmond giant revealed that for small businesses, deploying green IT solutions is a move which would result in cutting d... |
30 September 2008
07:59 GMT |
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Microsoft is starting to increasingly feel the heat emanating from the collapsing American financial sector and, in this context, the Redmond company has emerged as a supporter of the $700 billion bailout plan put together by the U.S. Government. The software giant took a hit following the rejection of the financial... |
30 September 2008
07:25 GMT |
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Microsoft says that its Summer of Arcade promotion that launched in July and went on for five weeks delivered clear results. Xbox Live Arcade games went up in sales by 58% and gamers were pretty much satisfied with the quality of the new videogames released on the Microsoft created service.August also became the mont... |
29 September 2008
16:11 GMT |
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MTV Games has released an Xbox 360 add for the Harmonix developed Rock Band 2 that apparently gives away the date when the Xbox Live re-design kicks in. The commercial spot references November as being the month when Microsoft updates the system. The phrase used is “Check out the New Xbox Experience coming in ... |
29 September 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Last time Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer embarked on a European tour, he managed to find a raw egg omelette a tad hard to swallow, as he was egged in Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2008, during his keynote address at the Entrepreneurship Forum at Corvinus University. But the Hungarian egg incident has not rui... |
29 September 2008
08:02 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that Microsoft's Tellme voice-activated search service is heading to the iPhone. It will be a couple of months before the application arrives on the App Store, according to Senior Director of the development team, Dariusz Paczuski.But the potential is truly valuable. For example, with Tellm... |
29 September 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently took a shot at foreseeing, stressing that Apple's iPhone had a short lifespan, while Nokia and Research in Motion would bow to the Windows makers, in terms of mobile software offerings.In fact, Microsoft's boss went as far as predicting the end of iPhone's life in a... |
26 September 2008
13:51 GMT |
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By Bill Gates' retirement from his day-to-day role with Microsoft in June 2008, Windows' install base surpassed the 1 billion milestone. Still, the 1 billion mark is nothing but a step toward the Redmond giant's next goal, namely a growth of 100% is its proprietary platform install base by 2015. Howeve... |
26 September 2008
05:56 GMT |
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Version 3.2 of Network Monitor is being offered as an update to v3.1, but in this regard, the utility is also nothing like the 2.x releases. Tawanda Sibanda, the lead program manager for Network Monitor indicated that Network Monitor 3.2 was produced through a consistent effort of the Netmon team that worked to ... |
25 September 2008
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