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Windows 7 in October
Thursday, September 25, 2008 computing.in.msn.com
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Denise Begley, Marketing Manager at Microsoft, posted to confirm a Windows 7 pre-beta unveiling which will begin with a keynote address from Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group on Tuesday, October 28. The keynote attendees will receive pre-beta build of Windows 7.
Earlier this week, a Microsoft technology evangelist Mike Swanson noted that the PDC
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Microsoft unveils $40bn buy-back
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 W Bush
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Microsoft has unveiled plans to spend $40bn (£22bn) buying back its shares from investors, the biggest single buy-back plan in history.
Analysts say the move is an attempt by the software giant to use its spare cash to prop up its share price which has fallen by almost 30% this year.
Hewlett-Packard and Nike have also announced major buy-back programmes.
The personal computer-maker will buy bac
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Microsoft Moves Out from Yahoo Deal
Monday, May 05, 2008 www.newstrackindia.com
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The world no.1 software giant in terms of website ranking and popularity has reportedly rejected the top management software firm Microsoft Corp’s revised proposal on Saturday quoting, “the bid is not enough for acquisition”, official reports said...
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Standards vote goes against Microsoft
Monday, January 14, 2008 infotech.indiatimes.com
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FRANKFURT/SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp has lost a preliminary vote to have its Office Open XML document format approved as an international standard, denting the company's hopes of wider adoption of the standard by public-sector organizations.
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Microsoft loses it's Midas touch
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 www.businessmusings.com
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Back in the nineties, Microsoft was a company which could do no wrong, however things changed towards the end of that golden era. In August 1999, Microsoft purchased $150 million worth of Apple stock at a price of $5.43 a share. And later sold the stock in 2001 at a marginal gain of 7% or $10 million. Today, the price of an Apple share is quoting at $122.06, had Microsoft held on to it's stake,
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Microsoft over customized email ids
Friday, September 28, 2007 www.indiainfoline.com
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Microsoft is seeking to make inroads in the Indian internet space and has unveiled over 250 custom domains as a part of its comprehensive plan to offer different kinds of customized Indian email ids. This is part of the enhancements to Windows Live Hotmail, including increased storage limits to 5 GB.
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Now Microsoft web services on Nokia phones
Friday, August 24, 2007 www.informationweek.com
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Mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia recently announced that it would incorporate Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live suite of Web services, like e-mail and instant messaging, to many of its cell phones. Internet companies such as Yahoo, Google Inc. are competing for space on a handset's main screen, so users can access their online services without having to go through the phone's Web browser.
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Microsoft to set up IT park near Pune: Bill Gates
Monday, July 02, 2007 sify.com
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Microsoft has announced it's plans to set up an information technology (IT) park in Maharashtra. Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, in a meeting with Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh, said that the park would be set up at Hinjewadi, near Pune. Deshmukh also appealed to Microsoft to help the state government use IT to boost agricultural productivity, to which Gates assured his company's full co-oper
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Microsoft piracy drive irks Gujarat dealers
Thursday, May 31, 2007 business-standard.com
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Taking a stand against Microsoft’s anti-piracy raids, dealers and resellers in Gujarat, led by the South Gujarat Information Technologists Association (SITA), have decided to form alliances with at least four other IT associations from other states towards a possible boycott of Microsoft in favour of Linux.
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