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Article | 11/08/2009 Opera, Chrome not officially supported by Office Web Apps

Microsoft has left the Opera and Google Chrome browsers off of the list of those officially supported by its Web-based Office applications, which will...

Article | 11/08/2009 Facebook buys FriendFeed

Facebook on Monday said it has agreed to purchase FriendFeed, a social-networking site that lets people share information and media files on the Web i...

Article | 10/08/2009 Microsoft to charge Office Live customers domain-renewal fee

Microsoft customers who signed up to its Office Live Small Business service before February of last year will soon have to pay to renew Web domains th...

Article | 7/08/2009 Facebook confirms DoS attack same day as Twitter

Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one t...

Article | 7/08/2009 Twitter taken down by denial-of-service attack

The Twitter micro-blogging and social networking service was hit with a denial-of-service attack Thursday morning that has rendered the site unavailab...

Article | 5/08/2009 Software for virtualizing XP on Windows 7 now available

Microsoft Tuesday released software that uses virtualization to allow people to run applications in Windows 7 as if they are running in XP, making it ...

Article | 5/08/2009 Microsoft acknowledges Linux threat to Windows client

Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to ...

Article | 4/08/2009 Microsoft details how to port iPhone apps to Windows Mobile

Microsoft has published a case study detailing how to port an iPhone application to its Windows Mobile platform as it prepares to launch an online sto...

Article | 3/08/2009 Microsoft details how to upgrade between Windows 7 SKUs

Microsoft on Friday let users who want to upgrade from one version of Windows 7 to another know how they can do so.

Article | 31/07/2009 Ballmer surprised by market's reaction to Microsoft-Yahoo

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was surprised that Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo's plan to hand over its Internet search and advertising reins t...

Article | 30/07/2009 Bing was tipping point in Microsoft-Yahoo deal

The successful launch of Microsoft's revamped search engine, Bing, was likely the event that tipped the scales in favor of Yahoo agreeing to a search ...

Article | 30/07/2009 Microsoft signs search deal with Yahoo

Microsoft and Yahoo struck a long-anticipated search deal Wednesday under which Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site, and Yah...

Article | 29/07/2009 Gartner: Global software budgets will grow next year

A new report by Gartner showing that software spending will increase worldwide next year indicates there may be truth to the general belief that the t...

Article | 24/07/2009 Microsoft revenue declines 17 percent in fiscal Q4

Microsoft's revenue declined 17 percent and net income declined 29 percent year over year in its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter due to continued weakness ...

Article | 24/07/2009 Engineer: Microsoft violated GPL before Linux code release

Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Mi...