Ballmer Pitches Windows 7 As Cost-Cutting Tool

Sep 29, 2009 No Comments by admin

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage today in San Francisco to extol how the company’s new slate of products — Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server2010 — can help businesses save money and increase productivity as corporate IT budgets remain tight. The phrase Ballmer repeated throughout the talk was “with [...]

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are Rounding Errors

Sep 29, 2009 No Comments by admin

This is the third installment of our exclusive interview last week with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In the first article we showed an overview and video footage of the main subject areas we covered: Big Opportunities, Operating Systems/Browsers, Mobile, Search and Developers…

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Microsoft Chases Unknown Scammers Through the Courts

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments by admin

Stepping up an effort to unmask online attackers responsible for a wave of malicious advertisements aimed at Windows PC users, Microsoft on Thursday filed suit in Washington state Superior Court against the unknown individuals behind five companies that it alleges distributed “malvertising” that entangled its customers in fake-antivirus scams and infected them with other malicious [...]

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Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new BingBing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10…

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Bing grabs 10 percent of search market

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

Microsoft’s new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday. The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search [...]

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Softie Ad Exec Siebrecht to Join AdReady Start-Up

Sep 14, 2009 No Comments

Apparently, not everyone leaves Yahoo (YHOO) to join Microsoft. On Friday, sources said, it was announced internally at Microsoft (MSFT) that Karl Siebrecht (pictured here), the former President of Atlas at aQuantive, is joining AdReady at the end of the month as President and COO…

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Why the DOJ wants more on Yahoo search deal

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

The long road toward Microsoft and Yahoo’s search deal could be set to get a little longer, or fall off a cliff. Both companies have long expected the U.S. Department of Justice to scrutinize the deal to install Microsoft as the exclusive search provider for Yahoo’s Web pages, which would also see Yahoo end its [...]

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Bing 2.0: “Super Imressive!”

Sep 12, 2009 No Comments

Twitter has already had repercussions in the courtroom. Now it has had them at Microsoft’s annual company meeting as well. Employee tweets from the gathering Thursday revealed that we may see a major update to the company’s Bing search engine as early as next week…

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New Microsoft-backed open source foundation faces questions

Sep 11, 2009 No Comments

Microsoft has launched a nonprofit organization with the aim of encouraging commercial software vendors to participate in open source software development. Microsoft has provided the organization, which is called the CodePlex Foundation, with $1 million in funding to get it started…

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Bing 2.0 could be around the corner

Sep 11, 2009 No Comments

Mary-Jo Foley at our sister site ZDNet spotted a few eager Twitter users spilling the beans on Bing 2.0 following Microsoft’s annual company meeting, where employees were apparently given a preview of some new features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. Some attendees had the changes coming next week, while others thought [...]

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Justice Department further probing Bing-Yahoo deal

Sep 11, 2009 No Comments

The U.S. Department of Justice has furthered its investigation into the proposed search engine deal between Microsoft and Yahoo by asking both companies to provide more information. The two companies received an additional request for information earlier this week as expected, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans told CNET News…

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