blogs.eweek.com - 1/13/2009
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In my previous post, I wrote about how Microsoft's attitude toward open-source software has evolved, encouragingly, from outright hostility to cordial coexistence, and about how the company might maintain and extend its platform leadership position by moving beyond simple tolerance to aggressive ...
kara.allthingsd.com - 1/13/2009
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kara.allthingsd.com —
Several sources close to Yahoo and Microsoft have
told BoomTown that a search partnership deal between the
companies is more likely to be signed quickly, now that Yahoo has picked former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its next CEO . Such a deal, ...
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Is a Microsoft Search Deal With Yahoo “Ticked and Tied”?
microsoftontheissues.com - 1/9/2009
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microsoftontheissues.com —
Workforce Development and Economic Stimulus Given the constant
flow of dreary news battering American workers – including
today’s announcement that jobless claims soared to 524,000 in December as the unemployment rate jumped to a 16-year high of 7.2 ...
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Microsoft On The Issues
online.wsj.com - 1/12/2009
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online.wsj.com —
While Apple Inc.'s iPhone kicked off the craze
for touch-sensing screens on mobile phones, Microsoft Corp. is
pushing a similar technology for personal-computer screens that could eventually replace the computer mouse. N-trig Ltd., an Israeli ...
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Microsoft Betting Big on 'Touch'
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