Microsoft Plays Its Strongest Office 2010 Card: SharePoint
While many of the enhancements in Office 2010 are nothing to write home about, Microsoft's latest iteration of SharePoint is a cause for excitement.
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Verizon Launches Aggressive Anti-iPhone Ads
The smart phone industry's attempts to unseat the iPhone in the US haven't been very successful, but now there's a new sheriff in wireless town.
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 19, 2009
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including my Windows 7 launch party, a happy ending to the Sidekick meltdown, Microsoft's first retail store opening, hackers targeting OWA, a Google Chrome OS non-event, and so much more
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Acer Surpasses Dell, Becomes Number 2 PC Maker
Shipments of PCs worldwide were better than expected in the third quarter of 2009, thanks to strong sales of low-cost netbooks.
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'Family Guy' Creator to Promote Windows 7
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is creating a 30-minute comedy variety show/infomercial that will promote Windows 7 on the Fox TV network.
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Many Sidekick Users Out of Danger: Data Restore Possible, Microsoft Says
Microsoft reversed a previous statement about data recovery for T-Mobile Sidekick users, noting that it now seems possible that some data will be restored.
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Huge Security Update Package Coming Today
This is the sort of thing Mac users are all too familiar with, but for users of the dominant Windows operating system, today's bumper crop of security updates will come as a bit of a surprise, in terms of both volume and severity.
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The FCC, Google Voice, and You
Apple rejected Google Voice, and now AT&T is requesting an FCC investigation into Google Voice. But could this whole mess spell brighter days for users?
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Microsoft Loses Sidekick Data
Last week, customers of T-Mobile's Sidekick smart phone, which is built and controlled by Microsoft subsidiary Danger, suffered a massive data outage that lasted for several days.
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 12, 2009
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including a spectacularly obvious fake rumor, Office 2010 Starter Edition, Exchange 2010 RTM, Amazon's cheaper and better Kindles, Microsoft and Twitter, long range Halo plans, and so much more
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Ballmer: Windows 7 to Provide Just a Small Bump
Speaking to the press in Munich, Germany yesterday as part of a multi-city tour to promote his company's upcoming products, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 would provide just a small bump to PC sales.
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Microsoft Inches Toward EU Settlement
Microsoft announced Wednesday that regulators in the EU are moving toward a settlement that would end years of lengthy and expensive antitrust battles there.
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Microsoft Launches Windows Mobile 6.5
Microsoft launched the latest version of its Windows Mobile operating system Tuesday, ushering in a new era of Windows phones.
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Ballmer: No More Big Web Buys ... But Plenty of Investment
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told reporters that he has no plans to boost the company's online search efforts with any major acquisitions. Well, probably not anyway.
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Thousands of Hotmail Users Exposed by Phishing Attack
Microsoft admitted that thousands of users of its Windows Live Hotmail web-based email service were likely victims of a so-called phishing attack. But the company denied that Hotmail had been hacked.
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Microsoft, Partners Set to Unleash Windows Mobile 6.5
On Tuesday, Microsoft and its device and wireless carrier partners will unleash a new generation of smart phones that utilize the new Windows Mobile 6.5 system. Designed primarily as a stop-gap between the out-of-date Windows Mobile software that
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Marketing Windows 7: The New Efficiency
Instead of touting Windows 7's or Exchange 2010's new UIs or other flashy new features, Microsoft is preaching a variant of the "do more with less mantra" from a few years back.
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 5, 2009
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including a week in Europe, Microsoft's latest miscommunication, a share loss for Bing, Google changes, Windows 7 compatibility, Microhoo, an IBM webmail offering, and so much more
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One Day Later: The Battle Begins Over Microsoft's Free AV
When Microsoft shipped its Windows Live OneCare security solution a few years back, traditional security vendors recoiled in horror and labeled the low-cost solution as ineffective and pointless.
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Microsoft CEO Sees Pay Cut During Financial Shortfall
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was paid 5.5 percent less in Microsoft's last fiscal year than he was the year before, due largely to the software giant's first-ever drop in annual sales.
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