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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 (4) | 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.


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.


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.


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Microsoft search engine Bing suffers brief outage

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing.


Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over removing its news websites from Google, a report said

News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday.


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Microsoft launches redesigned map search with apps

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is releasing an updated version of its mapping service with street-level views and new "apps" that tack on tweets, traffic and other location-specific data.


Microsoft to kick off Office 2010 in June

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

When Microsoft starts selling Office 2010 next year, the company will take its workhorse software suite and move it one step closer to its vision of cloud computing.


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Microsoft's monthly security fixes spare Windows 7

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.


Microsoft unleashes lawsuits, raids in piracy crackdown

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it has unleashed a series of lawsuits and is cooperating in criminal prosecutions worldwide in an effort to stem piracy of its software.


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Microsoft brings more Web data to Bing results; teams up with WolframAlpha

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.


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2009: the Year of Twitter

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The year has not yet ended but Microsoft says "Twitter" was among the top searches of 2009 on its new search engine Bing and a company which monitors language has crowned it the top word of the year.


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T-Mobile resumes sale of Sidekicks after data loss

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- T-Mobile USA resumed selling Sidekick phones Tuesday, more than a month after a server meltdown at Microsoft Corp. caused contact numbers, pictures and other personal information to disappear from ...