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Microsoft Chief Plays Down Apple’s Growth

Steve Ballmer defends Microsoft's profitability despite Apple surpassing it in terms of market capitalisation

15 years ago

Microsoft Office 2010 Boosts Core Features: Review

Microsoft's desktop suite comes packed enhancements to core Office capabilities, while breaking significant new ground with rich, web-based versions

15 years ago

Nokia And Yahoo Partner On Mobile Services

Yahoo and Nokia announce a partnership that will see Yahoo become the global provider for Nokia's Ovi e-mail and messenger…

15 years ago

Salesforce CEO Hits Out at Microsoft ‘Ally Thugs’

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff used strong language during a recent earnings call to describe a patent-infringement lawsuit brought by Microsoft

15 years ago

Windows Phone 7 Faces Android 2.2, iPhone OS 4

Microsoft's launch of Windows Phone 7 will bring it into direct opposition with Apple iPhone OS 4, as well as…

15 years ago

Survey Suggests Vista Stigma Lifting

Microsoft’s reputation among consumers experienced a lift after the release of Windows 7, according to the latest US index, but…

15 years ago

Could Office 2010 Boost Windows Mobile 7?

Office 2010 has a mobile version - and it could be the making of Windows Mobile, says Nicholas Kolakowski

15 years ago

Microsoft Hits Salesforce With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Microsoft has gone legal and slapped Salesforce.com with a patent infringement lawsuit, alleging its CRM service infringed nine Redmond patents

15 years ago

New Microsoft Windows 7 Flaw Found

Microsoft says disabling Aero will keep Windows 7 users safe from unlikely attacks on this flaw

15 years ago

Netbook Sales Expected To Grow To 58 Million

Research firm ABI predicts the market will keep growing this year with shipments totaling 58 million

15 years ago

Microsoft Pays £138m To Settle VirnetX Lawsuit

Microsoft is to pay $200 million (£138 million) in order to settle a patent-infringement suit from communications specialist VirnetX

15 years ago

Microsoft Hits Back At Google Docs

Microsoft claims that Google Docs does not enhance its Office products and shows how migrating documents to the Google Apps…

15 years ago

SmartDeploy Eases Windows 7 Migration: Review

Prowess’ SmartDeploy Enterprise uses a combination of virtual machines and other technologies to migrate from XP to Windows 7

15 years ago

Microsoft Unveils Cloud Enabled Office 2010

Microsoft has unveiled the final versions of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

15 years ago

Google Hits Back At Microsoft Office 2010

Office 2010 may add a cloud version, but Google has hit back with a claim that it supports collaboration better…

15 years ago

Microsoft Patches Two Critical Security Flaws

One month after its record security update, Microsoft has published fixes for just two critical security bugs in this month's…

15 years ago

Video: Open Source Is Key To Cloud Innovation

Open source is critical in realising the benefits of the cloud and allows for greater strategic flexibility, says Red Hat's…

15 years ago

Why Office 2010 Needs Both Mobility And The Cloud

Microsoft's Office 2010 might finally lose dominance of productivity software, says Nicholas Kolakowski, for two reasons: the cloud and mobility

15 years ago

US Patent Office Supports Claim Against Microsoft Word

Microsoft has bee handed another setback in the long-running patent infringement case leveled against it by Canadian firm i4i

15 years ago

Mozilla Outlines Product Plans For Firefox 4

Mozilla has begun work on Firefox 4, and in an effort to gather public feedback, has outlined early product plans…

15 years ago

New Windows Attack Bypasses Most Security Software

Researchers have exposed a new attack that circumvents some of the most popular security software for Windows desktops

15 years ago

Proprietary Vendors Don’t Help Disabled, Says FSF

The open source FSF group has recruited a former proprietary software exec to make the GNU Project's work more accessible

15 years ago

SharePoint 2010 Offers More: Review

Administrators and users will both find much to like about Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2010, offering easier upgrading and better management…

15 years ago

Microsoft Plans Two Fixes For Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has a small Patch Tuesday planned for May that features just two critical bulletins

15 years ago

Microsoft Launches Social Aggregation Site

Microsoft revealed a technical preview of Spindex, a new Web service designed to aggregate users' social-networking feeds

15 years ago

Microsoft Shutting Down 4200 Outdated Newsgroups

Microsoft plans to close the more than 2,000 public newsgroups and 2,200 private newsgroups devoted to its various products and…

15 years ago

Bill Gates Denies Rumours Of Microsoft Tablet Death

In an interview with Fox Business Network, Bill Gates says Microsoft is at work on a number of different tablet…

15 years ago

Microsoft To Support Open Source Joomla CMS

Microsoft is getting involved with another big-time open-source project

15 years ago

Firms Get Worms, Warns Microsoft

Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report says Windows XP is now bearing the brunt of most attacks

15 years ago

Visual Studio 2010 Makes Good Progress: Review

Microsoft's Visual Studio development software gains enhancements to its core functionality and its handling of ASP.NET, C#, C++ and VB

15 years ago