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blogs - The online retailer Amazon said that it was the “biggest grossing pre-order product of all time”, having overtaken the likes of Harry Potter and the D... moreeathly Hallows and Nintendo’s Wii.
Speaking at the launch of Windows 7 yesterday, Jeremy Fennell, Category Director at DSGi, which owns Dixons, Currys and PC World, said: “We have sold more copies of Windows 7 in three weeks on pre-order than Vista sold in its first year.”... hide
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blogs - Voice Recognition Systems continues to provide speech recognition solutions to healthcare and other organizations around the world for nearly 16 years... more. What we want to convey is what makes a speech recognition user successful as opposed to a user who is not successful. We also want to inform you about the upcoming release of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on October 22, 2009 and why you should not upgrade to this newly released code yet. Dragon NaturallySpeaking continues to be the worl... hide
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photos - Windows Mobile Is A Compact Operating System Combined with A Suite of Basic Applications for Mobile Devices Based on The Microsoft Win32 API
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stories - It's true of the product, which is as notable for its everyday performance as any one new feature. It's also true of how Microsoft plans to launch the... more new operating system on Thursday... hide
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blogs - According to reports and blogs on the web, IBM is dumping Microsoft Office in favour of its own version of Open Office, Lotus Symphony. It has issued ... morea ban, prohibiting it’s employees from using any Microsoft Office software.... hide
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blogs - The next release of SQL Server Microsoft has been made available for preview, under its Community Technology Preview (CTP) programme. The SQL Server t... moreeam is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft’s database, aka SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed “Kilimanjaro”).... hide
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blogs - Software giant Microsoft said the latest version of its flagship operating system, Windows 7, has been released to manufacturing. This means its devel... moreopment is now complete. Microsoft’s Windows 7 is set to be available in local retail stores on 22 October this year. Three versions of Microsoft’s latest operating system will be available: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional.... hide
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blogs - Software giant Microsoft said the latest version of its flagship operating system, Windows 7, has been released to manufacturing. This means its devel... moreopment is now complete. Microsoft’s Windows 7 is set to be available in local retail stores on 22 October this year. Three versions of Microsoft’s latest operating system will be available: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional.... hide
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stories - The war rages on. Google and Microsoft are at each others throats, fighting for dominance in the internet world. Play for play, they are showing their... more cards, daring the other to better their hand. Google launch their own browser, Chrome. Microsoft launch their new search engine, Bing. Google launch their new OS Google Chrome. Now Microsoft is Offering MS Office for free on the internet.... hide
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stories - The colossal €1.06 billion fine, set by the European Commission, far outweighs the €497million imposed on Microsoft in 2004 for simlar monopoly charge... mores.... hide
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blogs - Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope was officially released on April 23rd 2009, and had much to live up to. For starters, the impending release of Micro... moresoft Windows 7 has users bashing Ubuntu’s stale default interface.... hide
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stories - Microsoft could be about to phase out its standard Xbox 360 Elite console and instead fill out the top end of the scale with limited edition models li... moreke the recent Resident Evil 5 bundle.... hide
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blogs - Get Microsoft Windows 7 for free. Valid till 2010
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stories - Has Microsoft started a trend in weird advertising campaigns?? The last few advertising campaigns have really left a sour taste in one's mouth & I thi... morenk it's really hurting public opinion on Microsoft. ... hide
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blogs - Nice! Microsoft released word today that they are lowering the estimated retail price (ERP) for the entire Xbox 360 range here in South Africa, with i... moremmediate effect.... hide
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stories - Very sad news from Redmond, Wash. Melissa Batten, 36, a software development engineer in Microsoft's Xbox division, was murdered by her estranged husb... moreand, who then shot himself to death, earlier this week.... hide
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stories - Nothing like following success
By Nick Farrell: Friday, 25 July 2008, 7:31 AM
SOCIAL NOTWORKING site Facebook seems to be copying the failed Mic... morerosoft 'passport' scheme.... hide
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stories - Yahoo Inc has sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy battle with billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist investor had an "ill-... moredefined plan" for the future of the Internet company.... hide
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stories - As Yahoo Inc. attempts to move beyond its takeover battle with Microsoft Corp., the Internet company is planning a reorganization that is sending ripp... moreles through its executive ranks.... hide
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stories - Geneva - Microsoft has suffered a setback in its quest to make its Open XML format an internationally recognised standard for electronic documents.
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blogs - This is just sour grapes. One can uses what software is used by himself. Should Microsoft not be fined again or slapped with Antitrust because all s... moreoftware producers write software on windows as platform? That is monopoly for u!... hide
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videos - (Needs Silverlight)
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stories - Features include:
* Preview mode (only in FF3)
* Problems adding services in FF3 have been fixed
* Issues with query parameters fixed... more (all current services have been tested)
* UI is updated immediately when a new service is added
* Activities menu identifies the context you are acting in, and activities are limited based on that context (selection, link, document)
* Built-in link to take you to the IE8 Service Gallery
* Verified it works on Mac OS X
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stories - Microsoft announced that it is lowering the estimated retail price (ERP) for its Xbox 360 family of consoles in Europe and South Africa, with an entry... more-level price of R1999.00.... hide
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stories - Some screenshots of Microsoft Word
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stories - Microsoft Corp plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, said the company's chairman... more Bill Gates.... hide
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stories - Yahoo's rejection yesterday (Monday) of Microsoft's buyout offer sets the stage for the US software giant to up the ante or attempt a coup by ousting ... morethe Internet firm's board of directors.... hide
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stories - Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang sent a message to employees on Wednesday, assuring them the firm's leaders are exploring ways to avoid a takeover by ... moresoftware giant Microsoft.... hide
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stories - Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar wi... moreth Yahoo's strategy said yesterday (Sunday).
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stories - Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google.
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stories - Microsoft has launched a takeover bid for Yahoo in an attempt to challenge the growing might of Google.
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blogs - Microsoft bidding for Yahoo!
Google's competition might get a little tougher if #2 and #3 put their ENORMOUS heads together.
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stories - Microsoft's David Treadwell, a VP at Windows Live, will be joining the organization. Microsoft is expected to make a formal announcement in the coming... more days. News first leaked out via a shadowy post at Computerworld this morning.... hide
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stories - The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns... more. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization, synchronization, securi... hide
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stories - Microsoft has bought online mapping company Multimap to expand its web business, the US firm said.
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blogs - While a lot of internet minds were beginning to doubt Facebook’s ability to raise more venture capital after getting a huge $15 billion valuation foll... moreowing a $240 million investment from the blue monster, Microsoft, it seems the stakes are not too high for Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing... hide
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stories - Microsoft's CEO dismissed online social networking as a fad, and then his company spent $240 million on 1.6% of Facebook. Here's why he's so happy to ... moreeat his words.... hide
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stories - White papers on working smarter with Microsoft Excel.
There was always a possibility that there were better ways to do things than export your dat... morea into Excel and then manually manipulate the data to produce results – as so many organisations do today.... hide
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stories - Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo to launch new Windows Live services, played down the threat of Google on Thursday, denying the rival... more was ahead in any way but in online searches.... hide
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stories - Seattle - After a trickle of updates and "betas" bearing the Windows Live moniker, Microsoft Corp is ready to start promoting its official package of ... morefree desktop programs for e-mail, instant messaging, blogging and sharing photos.... hide
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stories - Microsoft shares soared to their highest level in six years on Friday after first-quarter sales beat projections by more than $1bn, thanks to sales of... more the Windows Vista system and the Halo 3 video game.... hide
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stories - Some members of the popular social networking website Facebook have departed after Microsoft’s recent acquisition of a $240, 1.6 percent, stake in the... more site.... hide
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stories - three reasons why it made sense to do the deal
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stories - Microsoft announced a $240 million deal with Facebook, giving the technology giant a minority stake in the popular social networking site and the excl... moreusive rights to sell worldwide advertisements that target Facebook's 50 million members.
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blogs - Microsoft has won the fight to be Facebook’s new investor and advertising partner, beating Google in some heated negotiations and getting a stake in t... morehe company. Microsoft has not bought Facebook, but it now owns 1.6%-2% of the fastest rising social network, paying $240 million for the stake and setting Facebook’s value at $15 billion.... hide
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stories - Rapidly rising internet star Facebook has sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft for $240m, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google. Culmi... morenating weeks of negotiations, the investment announced on Wednesday values the social networking site at $15bn.... hide
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stories - Google is threatening to once again beat rival Microsoft to the deal punch, this time in the white-hot Facebook investment sweepstakes. Microsoft and... more Google are each vying to take a stake of between 5 percent and 10 percent in the company.... hide