Lawsuit claims that tech giant collects data about customers’ whereabouts even they have opted out of location tracking Microsoft faces a lawsuit for allegedly tracking the location of users of its Windows Phone 7 software even after they had opted out Microsoft tracks the location of its mobile users even after customers turned the software...
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Microsoft spokespeople have been coy about when the Office 365 cloud service will launch, saying only that it will come out later in 2011. But CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that it will launch in June. Speaking in Delhi, India, to an industry group last week, Ballmer said, “We’re pushing hard in the productivity...
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After months of speculation and leaks, most of which turned out to be fake, Microsoft finally showed off a preview of Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. The new OS is a drastic break from previous Windows versions, and the company has learned a lot from the two competitors that most threaten...
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Bing announced that it has integrated Facebook Likes within its regular search results, similar to a move that Google made with social “shares” from Twitter and other services last week. Facebook Likes Previously Separated In October, Bing added Facebook Likes to the bottom of its search results page. If you searched for something that...
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Google lifted the veil on its chrome laptop Wednesday and also launched a somewhat Quixotic initiative to dent Microsoft’s dominance in the enterprise with a program that provides software, laptops and support for $28 per month per user. As Apple continues to make modest advances in the office now Google wants a piece of...
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Microsoft’s historic and prolonged dispute with U.S. regulators over antitrust violations has finally come to an end. And how things have changed. May 12 marks the expiration of a consent decree the software giant signed with the Department of Justice in 2002, an agreement that narrowly saved Microsoft from being broken up after it...
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When Microsoft announces its fiscal third quarter earnings after the market closes today, most analysts will zero in on one data point–how Windows is selling. Windows–one of the three engines that powers Microsoft sales and profits, along with Office, and server software–seems likely to have a sluggish quarter. Two weeks ago, research firm IDC...
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Just days after reports that Google and Facebook were interested in partnering with, and possibly buying VoIP company Skype, Microsoft announced that it was buying the company for $8.56 billion in cash. Last year, Skype had revenue of $860 million on which it posted an operating profit of $264 million. However, it overall made...
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Microsoft issued a patch for its Word software to comply with a court ruling that it infringed on patents relating to the use of XML or extensible markup language in its flagship word processing software. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word programmes containing...
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Lately I installed windows 7 on my xps 1210 and its awesome. I had been discovering small tricks in win 7 and then I stumbled upon to this mega tricks list of the OS on msdn blogs. Enjoy. Windows Management. By now, you’ve probably seen that Windows 7 does a lot to make window...
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