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Microsoft
hideMicrosoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is a United States-based multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.
The company was founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems. Its products have all achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. One commentator notes that Microsoft's original mission was "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software." Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV. The company's initial public stock offering (IPO) was in 1986; the ensuing rise of the company's stock price has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.
Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism, including monopolistic business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying. The U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, have ruled against Microsoft for various antitrust violations.
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Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix
Dec 22, 2009 |
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(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 to let Europeans pick browser in EU deal
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- More than 100 million Europeans will get to pick a Web browser after Microsoft agreed to offer Internet users a choice to avoid fresh fines - a move that could represent a real thawing of long-standing ...
Google search results to include 'real-time' data
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google's search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what's ...
Microsoft, Yahoo take next step in search alliance
Dec 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.
Microsoft unleashes lawsuits, raids in piracy crackdown
Dec 04, 2009 |
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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.
Microsoft launches redesigned map search with apps
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(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.
Don't bet newspapers will get rich shunning Google
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- There's an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google. Just don't count on that ...
Google, Bing deals make Twitter profitable: BusinessWeek
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Twitter has reached profitability after signing deals with Google and Microsoft to make the micro-blogging service searchable on the Internet, BusinessWeek magazine reported on Monday.
Microsoft, Google in battle to win over students
Dec 17, 2009 |
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As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino (Calif.) Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high stakes battle between Google and Microsoft.
Bing and Google gaining at Yahoo!'s expense: comScore
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Bing and Google gained ground in the Internet search market in November as they evidently lure people away from Yahoo!, according to fresh figures from industry-tracker comScore.
Bing app for iPhones hits App Store
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Microsoft announced that a Bing application tailored for Apple's beloved iPhones has hit the virtual shelves of its longtime rival's online App Store.
Microsoft suspends Juku, admits code copying by vendor
Dec 15, 2009 |
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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.
November video game sales fall 8 percent to $2.7B
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Americans reached into their pockets - though not as deep as last year - to spend $2.7 billion on video games in November, according to figures reported Thursday by market researcher NPD Group.
Microsoft search engine Bing suffers brief outage
Dec 04, 2009 |
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US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing.
Microsoft Store mirrors popular concept of its rival
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Blink an eye, and the Microsoft Store could be mistaken for an Apple Store.
