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Back in August, Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership that would see Microsoft Office applications ported onto Nokia smartphones, starting with the business-centric Nokia Eseries . At the time, the move seemed a good one for Nokia, given that it would help strengthen its competitive ...
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New search-engine numbers from research firm comScore, as reported by eWEEK earlier this morning , suggests that things are on the up-and-up for Microsoft: Bing with 9.9 percent of the market in October, Google continuing its dominance with 65.4 percent, and Yahoo seeing its share dip slightly ...
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Bing
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If you wanted proof that Microsoft's strategy for its Zune brand involves veering away from the actual Zune HD device, look at its plans for Europe and other international markets: starting tomorrow, Xbox owners in some 18 markets (including the UK, most of the EU, and Australia) will be able to ...
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This desktop now brought to you by Coke. Microsoft announced at the Monaco Media Forum in Monte Carlo the rollout of what it's terming "two new exclusive branding opportunities available on Windows 7" on Nov. 13: branded desktop wallpapers and gadgets created by the likes of Coke, Ducati and ...
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Did the designers of Windows 7 draw inspiration from Mac OS X? According to a Microsoft employee, the answer is "yes." That executive--Simon Aldous, Microsoft's partner group manager in the U.K.--told British tech-trade publication PCR that Windows 7 looked to Apple in modeling its end-user ...
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When I was in college, my girlfriend owned a 1992 Volvo station wagon affectionately named "The Box." Its exterior may have been decidedly boxy, and the engine whined when you tried to start it on a winter morning, but The Box displayed one particular advantage: the decade-old vehicle refused to ...
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Yahoo
Microsoft 's Tech-Ed Europe 2009 conference suggested two things: 1) that Microsoft fully intends to extend its "New Efficiency" theme past the Windows 7 launch, and 2) that some creative types within the company are being allowed to run totally rampant. In a keynote address launching the ...
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Windows 7
Apple has been earning a lot of press lately about the oft-rumored Tablet PC-- I did my own scuttlebutt round-up about it earlier this week , complete with an analyst stating that Apple's partners make it harder and harder to keep secrets. They're not alone in either the tablet PC or ...
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Looks like Microsoft finally got some of that old-time simplicity religion: today, the news hit that Redmond would be rolling out a stripped-down and personalized version of its MSN homepage . This was no small feat; from the moment that the first version of the site rolled out a decade ago, ...
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Yahoo
Now you've gone and made Eric Ligman upset. Ligman is the global partner experience lead for Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group, and the one who wrote an Oct. 27 posting on the Microsoft SMB Community Blog about people using Windows 7 upgrade discs to install the entire operating system on a ...
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In its bid to further challenge Google on the online advertising front, Microsoft Nov. 2 announced a deal with OpenX Technologies (an "independent ad server for Web publishers," according to Microsoft's news release) that will have the two companies referring publishers to one another, as well ...
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In its bid to further challenge Google on the online-advertising front, Microsoft announced a deal with OpenX Technologies (an "independent ad server for Web publishers," according to a Nov. 2 press release ) that will have the two companies referring publishers to one another, as well as ...
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Microsoft opened its second retail location, this one in Mission Viejo, Calif., on Oct. 29. Microsoft executives have stated that they intend to compete aggressively against Apple in the retail arena, with plans to open some of their outlets in close proximity to those of their hip Cupertino ...
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Microsoft and Yahoo are insisting that the delay of their search-and-advertising partnership deal is due to details still needing to be worked out, and not some larger structural issue that could scuttle the 10-year agreement before it begins in 2010.
"Microsoft and Yahoo are committed to this ...
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Microsoft and Yahoo are insisting that the delay of their search-and-advertising partnership deal is due to details still needing to be worked out, and not some larger structural issue that could scuttle the 10-year agreement before it begins in 2010. "Microsoft and Yahoo are committed to this ...
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Yesterday, I took a test drive of the Technical Preview of Microsoft's Office Web Apps, its cloud-based productivity suite accessible to Windows Live subscribers. That Technical Preview (open for "a limited time" in the words of Nick Simons, Microsoft's program manager of Office Web Apps) ...
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Nick Simons, Microsoft's program manager of Office Web Apps, wrote on the Office Web Apps blog last week that "we are opening up the Technical Preview and inviting more people to try out the Office Web Apps." For what Simons described as "a limited" time, Windows Live subscribers could head here ...
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Microsoft to Seth MacFarlane : The relationship is over. Roughly two weeks after Microsoft announced that the "Family Guy" creator would be the next funnyman employed by Redmond to sell Windows 7 (following up Jerry Seinfeld, who starred in a series of thoroughly inscrutable ads in support of ...
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Windows 7
After months of speculation, images from Microsoft's Scottsdale, Ariz. store seem to bear out the "early concept" designs that leaked earlier this summer: in creating its retail experience, Redmond borrowed some ideas from the Apple Store. There's also a bit of Best Buy thrown into the mix, as ...
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During the Windows 7 launch event in New York, it struck me that Microsoft was pushing its manufacturing partners' touch-screen devices particularly hard. Of course, the multitouch functionality of Windows 7 has been a detail long in the making--but this was the first time I've ever seen so many ...
