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Business

Google directly challenges Microsoft

The battle between Microsoft and Google intensifies. The search engine will soon inaugurate its own operating system. It plans to directly compete with Microsoft, the giant of this sector. The operating system will be named Google Chrome OS. It will be (...)

9 Jul. 2009 | | NYFP

Business

Yahoo! Remains Enigmatic On Its Projects With Microsoft

Yahoo!’s CFO Carol Bartz indicated that a rapprochement with Microsoft was not a priority, but also gave clues on what such a decision could bring to Yahoo!. Last year Yahoo! refused Microsoft’s $47.5 billion offer. Then-CEO Jerry Yang, also (...)

4 Jun. 2009 | | NYFP

International

Iraq First Lady Narrowly Escapes death ; Baghdad Equivocates on Role of Iran

A roadside bomb almost killed Iraq’s first lady on Sunday in Baghdad, striking her car and wounding three of her bodyguards. Bush is asking for another $70 bn. for next year, most of it for the Iraq War. Will the next president have the courage to (...)

5 mai. 2008 | | Juan Cole

Media

Taking Search to New Frontiers : Dr. Harry Shum (Microsoft)

On photo : Harry Shum The Web can be divided into three components : content (pages, images, videos, blogs, feeds), people (readers, writers, creators, commenters), and actions (queries, clicks, pageviews). Current search engines have taken advantages (...)

25 avr. 2008 | | Phil Windley

Science & Tech

15 Feb. 2007 | | Alexandre VERNO

Science & Tech

No one is lining up for Windows Vista in San Francisco

Earlier tonight I attended a Windows Vista launch event in San Francisco and was surprised to find not a single person in line to buy the software less than an hour before launch. CompUSA stayed open late to provide hands-on demonstrations of (...)

30 jan. 2007 | 3 comments | Niall Kennedy

Science & Tech

Is Microsoft after RSS ?

Are Bill and the Boyz making an underhanded play for RSS ? In 2005 they filed for two patents covering web syndication technology not at all dissimilar to RSS (Really Simple Syndication), but kept the applications secret, and this was, "just days (...)

27 déc. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

No HARD questions for Bill Gates how come ?

I am really disappointed with the Bloggers that went to Microsoft yesterday and got to meet with Bill Gates. I was pretty excited to read the commentary on their blogs but highly disappointed that none of them asked hard questions. Frankly it pisses me (...)

15 déc. 2006 | | Geek News Central

Science & Tech

DRM is lame : Bill Gates

Chairman Bill apparently also believes DRM is for the birds, just like everyone. Except the entertainment and software cartels, of course. Microsoft recently "convened" a small group of bloggers to discuss the upcoming Mix Conference in Las (...)

15 déc. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

Mac OS X and Windows on the same desktop

If you own a Intel chip based Mac it just got a lot more interesting today. Being I am running parallels on my MacBook Pro, I was pretty surprised to see what their latest update has brought to the table. A new feature called Coherence is new way where (...)

4 déc. 2006 | | Geek News Central

Science & Tech

Are Microsoft Lawyers getting in the way of Transparency?

There is more information surfacing in the Zune - Rocketboom promo proposal that made headlines yesterday when Andrew from Rocketboom publicly responded to Microsoft on his turning the deal down. From what I have gathered the following quote in the deal (...)

15 Nov. 2006 | | Geek News Central

Science & Tech

Get your virtual billboards here !

As with any self-respecting blogger, I hate to say anything positive about Microsoft because they are synonymous with evil (just kidding !), but I must admit that the latest update to Virtual Earth — or whatever we’re supposed to be calling it (...)

7 nov. 2006 | | Mathew Ingram

Science & Tech

Xbox movie, TV, downloads

Starting on November 22, Microsoft, "trying to wring a profit from its Xbox video-game console," will be using it to hopefully peddle high-def movies and TV shows from CBS, MTV Networks and Warner Bros, says Bloomberg News. Mission Impossible III is (...)

7 nov. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

Zune won’t play PlaysForSure

Bill and the Boyz’ much-touted Zune won’t play songs bought through services such as Napster, MTV’s Urge or Yahoo Music Unlimited, all of which use Microsoft’s very own Windows Media PlaysFor DRM (digital restrictions management) (...)

18 sep. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

Microsoft fined another $357M

European regulators have landed Microsoft with 280.5 million euros ($357 million) fine for antitrust violations on top of the 497 million-euro fine already levied by competition commissioner Mario Monti. Microsoft hasn’t complied with a 2004 (...)

12 jui. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

Bill Gates to leave Microsoft

Bill Gates says he’s going to step down as the man who runs Microsoft. But his departure won’t be for another two years. And it won’t be total, says the Guardian Unlimited. "Gates is going to shift his emphasis from working for (...)

16 jui. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

Google’s p2p-type spreadsheet

Consumers are reaching the satiation point and to maintain interest, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, et al, keep adding bits of each other’s ’services’ to their offerings. In the latest move of this kind, Google says it plans to excel (...)

6 jui. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Business

Gates disses MIT’s $100 laptop

About three months to the day that Intel boss Craig Barrett poured scorn on the $100 laptop computer developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bill Gates has done the same. The idea behind the cheap, self-powered laptop is to give poor (...)

16 mar. 2006 | 2 comments | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

No backdoors for Vista

When Microsoft’s Windows Vista appears later this year, it’ll mean more computer files being encrypted, said a recent BBC report, quoting Cambridge professor Ross Anderson who was urging the UK government to think about, "back door" (...)

6 mar. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Science & Tech

Windows Live Expo

Microsoft getting ready to launch new online classifieds system and social networking site called Windows Live Expo. Windows Live Expo allows users to post ads for free in a variety of categories including items for sale, personal ads, jobs, and events. (...)

16 jan. 2006 | | Niall Kennedy

Science & Tech

Windows Live Messenger new features

Microsoft unveiled some new Windows Live Messenger during Bill Gates’ keynote tonight at CES. My favorite new feature is Messenger activities prompted by a chat bot. Activities Microsoft showed off a chat bot that allowed a user to ask questions (...)

5 jan. 2006 | | Niall Kennedy

Science & Tech

eBay, GoogleBay, MSBay

Google has done it, so now Bill and the Boyz are following suit. Google’s answer to eBay is Google Base, and Microsoft’s answer to Google is code-named Fremont, "apparently in response to a similar feature that rival Google Inc. introduced a (...)

30 nov. 2005 | | Jon Newton

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