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Steve Ballmer is a dissin' machine

(author unknown) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT

Microsoft's CEO likes to have his opinions heard about his company's competition. And he sounds off more often than you might expect.

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Ballmer shrugs at Google's Chrome OS

(author unknown) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:33:00 PDT

Microsoft's chief executive says having one client operating system is better than two--a lesson Microsoft learned some years ago.

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Report: Bing adding little to Microsoft ad dollars so far

(author unknown) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:32:00 PDT

A new report on search engine ad spending shows Microsoft's share remained flat in the second quarter. Meanwhile, Yahoo lost market share, while Google grew.

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Why kids (rightly) hate the enterprise

(author unknown) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:38:00 PDT

In speaking with a group of collegiate entrepreneurs I remembered that despite the big dollars, enterprise software is boring.

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Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS

(author unknown) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:00:00 PDT

In his first comments on the new Windows threat, Gates tells CNET News Chrome is neither the first OS from Google, nor the first time Microsoft has had to fend off Linux.

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End of an era for Office 2000

(author unknown) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:42:33 PDT

With Office 2010 just around the corner, Microsoft finally ends support for the version that, in 1999, it said "unleashes the power of the Web work style."

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Facebook hits a quarter billion users

(author unknown) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:45:00 PDT

The social network isn't doing anything fancy to celebrate, other than working to develop odds and ends such as "new mobile products."

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Windows 7 pre-orders big in Europe

(author unknown) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:01:00 PDT

Microsoft's offer for ordering the new operating system at a discount appears to be selling out quickly in Europe.

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Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And No.

Guest Author — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:30:48 PDT

Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net, founded in 2005 with the goal of helping people and businesses easily access and share information from anywhere. Box.net is now used by millions of individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide. There’s now a lot of buzz...

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Google's vanity OS is Microsoft's dream

(author unknown) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:20:47 PDT

Snug as two bugs in an antitrust rug No one will be happier than Microsoft about Google's vanity venture to market computers with a Google-brand OS. It gives us the illusion of competition without seriously troubling either business, although both will obligingly huff and puff about how serious...

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Microsoft rejigger judges Window 7 a success

(author unknown) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:58:21 PDT

Now, if only people buy it Windows 7 is not yet for sale - or even officially finished - but it's already been judged a success. At least, that's what we're lead to believe by Microsoft's latest corporate re-organization.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

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Microsoft's Flash-challenger Silverlight 3 hits web

(author unknown) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:38:09 PDT

Ready to "light up" online Office apps The next version of Microsoft's Flash-challenger media player has hit the web, ahead of Friday's official launch.… What is your recession sales strategy?

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Bing vs. Google

(author unknown) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:13:48 PDT

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Enterprise 2.0: Is It Too Late For SharePoint?

(author unknown) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 PDT

Microsoft's SharePoint can still become "a disrupter" if it dramatically improves its social networking services, says a report by CMS Watch.

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Readers Debate Microsoft Bing vs. Google with Religious Fervor

(author unknown) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:03:03 PDT

Readers respond with vitriol and some common sense in their comments comparing Microsoft's Bing search engine to Google's goliath search engine. The debate is heated and recalls the Windows vs. Linux and Firefox vs. Internet Explorer crusades from the last several years. What side are you on, or is...

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Shortened URLs spike in e-mail spam

(author unknown) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:53:00 PDT

E-mail spam that includes truncated Web addresses sees a dramatic increase very recently, security provider MessageLabs says.

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Do URLs matter anymore?

(author unknown) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:00:00 PDT

With search boxes becoming increasingly the first place people go to find anything, does it really matter what your URL is?

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Fun with numbers a boon for StatCounter

(author unknown) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:30:00 PDT

The Web-tracking service claims IE market share has dropped off since March, but should we believe the numbers?

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Marc Andreessen launches new venture fund

(author unknown) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:00:00 PDT

The $300 million Andreessen Horowitz fund will back companies large and small, but only those focused on the Internet.

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Netscape founder's new fund

(author unknown) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:47:24 PDT

Ben Horowitz was toiling as an unheralded product strategist at Netscape Communications when he opened a scathing e-mail from his boss, Marc Andreessen. It was the winter of 1996; Netscape's public offering, several months earlier, had ignited the dotcom craze, and co-founder Andreessen had just...

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