Microsoft Loses i4i Appeal, Faces Unappealing Options
2009-12-22 20:38:10
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In August 2009, Microsoft lost a lawsuit by small Canadian company i4i, which argued that versions of Microsoft Word violated their XML-related patent. Microsoft appealed, of course, and it looked like the case...
Is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on His Way Out the Door in 2010?
2009-12-21 22:27:01
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Newsweek seems to think so. In its "Tech Predictions for 2010," No. 9 is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer being pushed out in favor of another show-runner.
"If Microsoft were any other company," the magazine's staf...
Microsoft Still Tinkering with Bing App for iPhone
2009-12-18 15:53:52
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Apparently Microsoft's Bing App for iPhone, released on Dec. 16 and loaded with functionality such as voice search, wasn't fully baked: in a Dec. 17 posting on its official blog, the Bing team highlighted a few...
Microsoft Donates PhotoDNA to Stop Spread of Explicit Images
2009-12-17 21:22:12
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Microsoft announced on Dec. 15 that it would donate PhotoDNA, a technology developed by Microsoft Research, to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which will use it to identify and eliminate i...
Microsoft Apologizes for Juku Code Lifting, but Questions Remain
2009-12-16 20:31:21
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Earlier today, I published a story on eWEEK about Microsoft's apology to Plurk, a Taiwanese IT startup that produces a microblogging application. Microsoft had been developing its own microblogging application ...
Microsoft's Mobile Strategy In 2009: Wait for Mobile 7 in 2010
2009-12-15 22:13:05
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Microsoft didn't throw its Hail Mary pass in the mobile space 2009, but it has its arm cocked back to throw.
In October, Microsoft rolled out Windows Mobile 6.5, its latest smartphone operating system. Comment...
Is Microsoft Dead in the Consumer Market?
2009-12-11 22:34:13
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"Except for gaming, it is 'game over' for Microsoft in the consumer market," Mark Anderson of the Strategic News Service, which attempts to predict technology trends, told The New York Times on Dec. 10. "It's t...
Microsoft's New Problem: The French Military
2009-12-10 22:13:39
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Yes, the above title was not some sort of catastrophic typing error on my part. In addition to having to deal with the likes of Google and Apple, now Microsoft finds itself taking flak from another front: the F...
Microsoft Executive Suggests Google Delisting a No-Go
2009-12-08 22:17:13
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Last week, Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. were reportedly in talks over an agreement that would see News Corp.'s Websites delisted from Google search in exchange for payment by Microsoft. Subsequent ...
Microsoft's Possible Terms for European IE 8 Deal
2009-12-04 22:26:20
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Microsoft refused to confirm this for me directly, but according to an unnamed source in The New York Times, Redmond is on the verge of settling its dispute with the European Commission (the EU's law-enforcemen...