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Wis. court backs $5.6M fee award against Microsoft

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created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- An appeals court is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay $5.6 million to a national law firm involved in a Wisconsin antitrust case against the software giant.


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Microsoft to release free antivirus PC software

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (22) | comments 10

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says its new computer security program can be downloaded starting on Tuesday.


Microsoft lays off 800 more workers worldwide

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January.


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Twitter becomes mutual friend of Google, Microsoft

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Refusing to be upstaged, Google's Internet search index will include public updates from Twitter's communications stream.


Microsoft suspends Juku, admits code copying by vendor

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Microsoft on Tuesday indefinitely suspended MSN Juku, its new microblogging service in China, after its Chinese vendor was caught lifting code from a rival Canadian startup, Plurk.


Microsoft says some Windows PCs get 'Black Screen'

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it's not to blame for a problem that is causing a "limited" number of Windows computers to boot up to a blank black screen.


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Australia, Canada approve Yahoo!-Microsoft deal

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australian and Canadian competition authorities have approved the Internet search and advertising partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday.


Microsoft says cost-cutting CFO to step down

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said its chief financial officer is departing at the end of the year and will be replaced by the man now responsible for the books at the division that produces Microsoft Office and other ...


Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they have finalized the details of their planned search and advertising partnership

Microsoft, Yahoo take next step in search alliance

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created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.


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Microsoft, Taiwan to set up cloud computing centre

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US software giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday signed an agreement with Taiwan to jointly establish a research centre here for the development of Internet computing technology.


A Chinese court has found Microsoft guilty of infringing a Chinese company's intellectual property rights

Court rules against Microsoft in China font case

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Chinese court has ruled Microsoft Corp. infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems, the companies confirmed Tuesday.


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Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix

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created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 8

(AP) -- A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower ...


Microsoft Office 2010 beta ready to download

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created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you want to try out Microsoft Office 2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the company announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.


Not all is lost on the Sidekick: contacts recouped

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- T-Mobile Sidekick phones that lost the information stored on them now can at least get the contact lists back.


Microsoft patches 34 security holes, many critical

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. issued a record number of security patches for its software Tuesday as part of its regular monthly update.