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Microsoft held its annual shareholder meeting this morning at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue to a sunnier outlook overall, except for shareholder questions about the popularity of Macs and iPhones.
Chief Executive Steve Ballmer looked backward and forward in his address:
"There's no doubt ...
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I will be livetweeting the Microsoft shareholders meeting at 8 a.m. today. They are meeting at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. You can follow me in the right corner of the Pri0 blog or at www.twitter.com/sharonpianchan .
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LOS ANGELES -- If you want to try out Office 2010, the beta is now available by download for anyone. You can get it here . Office Web Apps, Microsoft's online competitor to Google, will also be available for anyone to preview who downloads the 2010 beta.
Office Mobile 2010 is also available ...
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LOS ANGELES -- Four months after releasing Silverlight 3, Microsoft is making Silverlight 4 available for beta testing. You can find it here .
Silverlight is multimedia user experience software that competes with Adobe Flash. For instance, Silverlight is being used by to stream the Vancouver ...
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LOS ANGELES -- Windows President Steve Sinofsky gave some details on the development of the next version of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 9.
He said the browser would be more interoperable, and its performance would be improved from IE 8. The development team has been working on ...
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LOS ANGELES -- I will be livetweeting today's keynote featuring Windows President Steve Sinofsky at 8:30 a.m. You can either look in the top right corner of the Microsoft Pri0 blog for the Twitter feed, or you can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/sharonpianchan/ .
Other speakers at the ...
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LOS ANGELES -- Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, talked up cloud computing this morning in his opening keynote at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference this morning.
Ozzie announced that the Microsoft cloud, Windows Azure, will light up for customers on Jan. 1. The ...
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In case you didn't see it Monday, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Here is the story that my colleague Brier Dudley wrote.
And here is the full e-mail that Paul Allen's sister Jody released to the public:
To employees of Vulcan and ...
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I am back in my hometown of Los Angeles for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. I will be livetweeting the 8:30 a.m. keynotes today featuring Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia, head of the Server and Tools division.
I'm expecting an announcement about Microsoft ...
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The Apple store shut its doors for a remodeling in The Shops at Mission Viejo, just as Microsoft announced plans to open a store in the same mall in Orange County, Calif.
The Microsoft store opened on Oct. 29 and is the second the company has opened. The first one opened in Scottsdale, Ariz. ...
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Two good reads on Microsoft division heads just popped up this week: Q&As; with Steve Sinofsky, head of the Windows team, and Bob Muglia, head of the Server and Tools division.
TechFlash has the Q&A; with Sinofsky, timed to the release of a business management book he is co-authoring. ...
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Want to lose 10 pounds? Microsoft's Bing and Wolfram Alpha can help.
Microsoft's search engine Bing is integrating search results from Wolfram Alpha, a search engine that wants to make all systematic knowledge computable online. Instead of just returning links, Wolfram Alpha has built-in ...
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I'm back from my vacation, with an interim stop in San Francisco for an Asian American Journalists Association board meeting. While I was in SF, I snapped this Twitpic of a Windows 7 ad at Union Square.
The news I missed on Microsoft while I was eating tapas, gawking at Gaudi and bicycling ...
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Microsoft's MSN Web site has been around a long time. And some - even some at Microsoft - would say it looks it.
So the company is fixing to launch what it calls a "refresh" of the MSN site built around a redesign of the home page.
A preview of the redesign is going public Wednesday at ...
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Hi, I'm Sharon. Awhile ago I got an idea. You know what it was? Make life happier.
So what did I do? I bought a plane ticket. Next thing you know, Barcelona.
Now, when there's Microsoft news, my editor will write about it. Snap! Makes life simpler.
I'm a PC and this vacation was my idea. ...
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Variety is reporting that Microsoft has pulled its sponsorship of the "Family Guy" show scheduled for Nov. 8.
Microsoft was going to sponsor an ad-free comedy/variety show with "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane called "Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show" with ...
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Apple launched three television ads to squash the publicity bump for Windows 7.
One warns users that Vista did not live up to the launch hype. The other two encourage users to switch to a Mac instead of upgrading to Windows 7.
Here are the ads below, and in unrelated Apple-Microsoft news ...
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Microsoft, in its first quarter earnings call this morning, says the company may have passed the bottom of the economy.
"It's too early to tell, but the fourth quarter of [fiscal] 2009 [which ended June 30] may well have been the bottom of the economic reset," said Chief Financial Officer ...
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Here is the link to the Webcast.
I will be live Tweeting at www.twitter.com/sharonpianchan/ if you can't get on.
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NEW YORK -- While Microsoft's sales continued to fall in financial results, the software company reported profits that exceeded expectations.
The company said it made $12.92 billion in sales in the first quarter of 2009, a 14 percent decline compared to $15.06 billion in sales in the same ...
