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Microsoft reportedly will cut Xbox 360 price
Sources say $50 price cut for the 20GB model will come before E3, the video game industry's biggest trade show.
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Windows could use a rush of fresh air
Microsoft's flagship software, Windows, built upon the same core architecture as preceding versions, seems to move an inch when its competitors take a lap.
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For Bill Gates, the next phase begins
The Microsoft co-founder takes the spotlight this week as he puts in his final days of full-time work for the software company.
June 27, 2008 11:37 PM PDTJudge upholds Alcatel award in Microsoft case
Earlier ruling stipulated that Redmond pay $368 million in damages for violating patents held by Alcatel-Lucent.
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OOXML ratification faces delay after objection
South Africa's standards body has formally protested the decision approving the OOXML specification.
May 27, 2008 5:07 PM PDTMicrosoft's backward route to ODF support
The changes Redmond's own OOXML underwent in becoming a standard make it more difficult for the company to support OOXML, rather than ODF, in Office 2007.
(By Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK)
Mono offers open-source spin on Silverlight
First public release of Novell's Moonlight will compete with products from Adobe, Sun, and Apple.
(By Matthew Broersma of ZDNet UK)
U.K. standards body taken to court over OOXML
Group launches court challenge against decision by British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format.
May 1, 2008 8:33 PM PDTWith Mesh, Microsoft rethinks its place in the world
Redmond unveils its new Live Mesh service--and acknowledges that computing no longer revolves around the PC.
Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
Test shows that Word documents generated by today's version of Office 2007 don't conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the ISO.
(By Peter Judge of ZDNet UK)
Microsoft woos hobbyist developers
Company is trying to boost interest in noncommercial software development around Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
April 17, 2008 4:34 PM PDTWeek in review: Microhoo, Yahoogle, and Microspace, oh my!
The week was marked by a dizzying barrage of news on the future of Yahoo and its suitors, leaving industry watchers mostly scratching their heads. Also, RSA 2008.
(By CNET News.com's Michelle Meyers)
Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users'
By way of the User Account Control feature, company set out to force independent software vendors to make their code more secure, says manager.
April 11, 2008 7:01 PM PDTWeek in review: Social media open for business
The formation of a group to promote universal standards for social-network apps stood out amid a slew of headlines this week about companies merging, collaborating, or restructuring.
(By CNET News.com's Michelle Meyers)
U.K. may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
Microsoft's Office Open XML may win last-minute favor from a key British standards body, but Microsoft would need more votes to change before OOXML becomes a standard.
March 27, 2008 7:54 PM PDTMicrosoft offers free support for Vista SP1 installs
Software giant says it will give free support until March 18, 2009, to those experiencing difficulty installing Service Pack 1.
(By Suzanne Tindal of ZDNet Australia)
Gaps found in Microsoft Exchange API documentation
Companies providing alternatives to Exchange are expressing concern over missing information in recently published APIs for Microsoft volume server products.
March 10, 2008 6:16 PM PDTMicrosoft mixes it up at Web confab
Silverlight and IE 8 top the technology agenda at Redmond's Mix '08 developer event in Las Vegas.
Ballmer: Microsoft is thinking green
At the CeBit technology show in Hannover, the chief executive says the software giant is focusing on lowering energy consumption.
March 5, 2008 5:00 PM PSTMicrosoft COO downplays Vista update problems
The software giant's chief operating officer says he is pleased with SP1's progress, despite it breaking some third-party programs.
March 5, 2008 1:14 AM PST
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