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1. Microsoft sues over "malvertising"

   (Security/Security Features)

   Thursday, 17 September 2009

   Software giant Microsoft is suing the writers of scareware code of the type that hit the New York Times over the weekend.Software giant Microsoft is suing the writers of scareware code of the type that ...

2. Dirty laundry alert: Xandros acquires Linspire

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 01 July 2008

   ... Lindows and sued by Microsoft because of trademark violation around the world back in 2002. The case was settled in 2004, which resulted in a renaming of the company to Linspire. Linspire and Xandros ...

3. Icahn aiming to oust Yahoo’s Jerry Yang as CEO

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Monday, 09 June 2008

   ... Microsoft acquisition offer that could have benefitted Yahoo employees. According to the investor, Microsoft earmarked $1.5 billion for employee retention, which he indicates Bostock may have “neglected ...

4. UPDATED: Korea concludes Intel violated anti-trust regulations

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 12 September 2007

   ... with Microsoft took up to a year, according to Mulloy.  Mulloy was not able to give a firm time frame for Intel's response. Intel is prohibited from discussing details of the case due to ...

5. IBM abuses file format standardization process to limit choice - Microsoft

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 15 February 2007

   Microsoft has fired the next round in a behind-the-scenes battle to establish the next dominant file format for office applications. Microsoft claims that IBM doesn't play nice and tries to block ...

6. Keith Urban v. Keith Urban case opens up over website domain

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 07 February 2007

   ... his .net domain, and is seeking monetary damanges as well. It is similar to a case from a couple years ago where Microsoft threatened to sue a man names Mike Rowe for opening up www.mikerowesoft.com. Public ...

7. Vista breaks 90% of games, says game publisher

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 30 January 2007

   ... are surfacing. One of them could put a question mark behind Microsoft's claim that the company went above and beyond to fine-tune Windows Vista to common mass-market usage scenarios. Alex St. John, ...

8. Microsoft accuses EC of conspiracy, secret negotiations in antitrust affair

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 02 March 2006

   A Supplemental Response issued today to the European Commission by Microsoft accuses the EC of collaborating with representatives of four un-named co-conspirators - companies it calls its "adversaries" ...