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1. The Gaming Renaissance Movement

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Friday, 08 May 2009

   ... to be 53,900. That puts the current game industry layoffs in the North American market at 12% of the total workforce. On top of the layoffs, at least 13 studios including Microsoft’s ACES Studio and ...

2. Obama selects Google CEO Eric Schmidt for nascent tech council

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Monday, 27 April 2009

   ... at Microsoft), Ahmed Zewail (Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Caltech) and Shirley Ann Jackson (President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).   ...

3. Microsoft releases third anti-Apple ad: It’s Blu-ray!

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 10 April 2009

   Microsoft launched its third Laptop Hunters commercial. This time, there is a budget of $1500 and the target is a fast gaming laptop with a big hard drive. And guess what: They end up with a PC again. ...

4. Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 19 January 2009

   ... have already trickled down from the cloud to your desktop. The idea, of course, is all but revolutionary, but Google's execution could set it apart. SkyDrive, MobileMe, Back to my Mac Microsoft's ...

5. MTV and Apple Corps to launch global music ‘project’

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 29 October 2008

   ... a failed cooperation with Microsoft as well as the Rhapsody America joint venture with Real Networks and Verizon, which also never evolved into a serious business for MTV. Other sources indicated that ...

6. Halo 3 developer going independent again

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 05 October 2007

   Microsoft has a special way of saying thank you to the company that has built the foundation for a $1 billion franchise. Redmond (WA) – Microsoft has a special way of saying thank you to the company ...

7. Wii slaughters PS3 in holiday sales

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 27 December 2006

   ... surprise to many, after Nintendo essentially conceded the battle of the last generation to Microsoft and Sony. The unconventional motion-sensitive controller, combined with the weird name, also set many ...

8. Burglars dig for Xbox 360 consoles

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 18 December 2006

   ... and cut the power and cameras before dashing off with more than a dozen consoles. The store manager believes the thieves were actually after the PlayStation 3, but took the Microsoft console as their consolation ...

9. Save your $$$: November gets gadget-filled release docket

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 03 November 2006

   ... Wii slide show here ... See the Sony Playstation 3 in detail ... See image sof the Microsoft Zune here ... Ebay auctions have been appearing for the Wii and PS3 consoles for months, even before pre-orders ...

10. Microsoft, Peter Jackson to create game studio

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 27 September 2006

    Microsoft's video games could get much more Hollywood excitement and drama as the company today announced that it will create Wingnut, a new game studio in cooperation with Academy award winning writer, ...

11. Microsoft acquires Peter Molyneux's Lionhead game studio

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 06 April 2006

    With Microsoft standing a serious chance to acquire a chunk of gaming market share from Sony, as PlayStation 3 remains absent from that market until November, the Xbox 360 manufacturer today announced ...

12. Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 19 March 2002

      Microsoft gunman Joachim Kempin, who was convicted of illegally shooting antelope in Montana in 1998, has been turning his firepower on a more familiar target: Microsoft's own OEM customers, Andrew ...

13. STM's 750Mbit per Second CMOS IC

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 29 June 2001

    ... no one is going to call the fouls. In a not so surprising move, a federal appeals court set aside U.S. District Court Judge Penfield Jackson's ruling that Microsoft be dismantled. The appeals court judge ...

14. Intel phasing out 900MHz PIII

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 28 February 2001

    ... they would probably overturn the lower court order breaking up Microsoft Corp. unless all three antitrust violations found by the trial judge are upheld. Legal experts continue to predict that Microsoft ...

15. Intel urges 400MHz DDR SDRAM

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 27 February 2001

    ... and the Wall Street Journal violated ethical codes and could result in a reversal of his judgment against Microsoft. The source article is at thestandard.com.  ...

16. Judge's secret meetings could save MS

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 27 February 2001

    ... ethical codes and could result in a reversal of his judgment against Microsoft. The US appeals judges hearing the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case are widely viewed as tending to disagree with US District ...

17. Linus Torvalds signs book deal

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 29 November 2000

      The Finnish founder of the open-source phenomenon, Linux, has signed a contract with HarperBusiness to write a book. Microsoft Corp.'s first filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District ...

18. Motorola G4 hits 1 GHz

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 11 October 2000

      Motorola has announced that its G4 Apollo processor will beat the 1 GHz mark. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the federal judge who ruled against Microsoft in the antitrust case, ...

19. Microsoft requests stay on breakup order

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 08 June 2000

      Saying it would "inflict grievous and irreparable harm" on the company, its employees, shareholders and consumers, Microsoft filed a motion to stay all provisions of yesterday's final judgment ordering ...

20. Microsoft postpones 'Next Gen' debut

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 30 May 2000

      An expected ruling in the Microsoft antitrust case has prompted the company to cancel Thursday's scheduled announcement of its highly-anticipated Next Generation Windows Services, or NGWS. An ...

21. Microsoft judge considers three-way split

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 25 May 2000

      At a remedy hearing in the Microsoft antitrust case, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson refused to consider a motion by the company to dismiss the government's breakup proposal, and instead moved immediately ...

22. Microsoft preps breakup alternative

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 08 May 2000

      Microsoft is preparing a counterproposal to the government's breakup plan that would impose limits on its business practices.Responding to U.S. Microsoft is preparing a counterproposal to the ...

23. Microsoft vows to appeal verdict

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 04 April 2000

      Microsoft vowed to appeal a ruling that it violated U.S. Microsoft vowed to appeal a ruling that it violated U.S. antitrust law, with Chairman Bill Gates expressing confidence that his company ...

24. Microsoft ruling delayed

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 28 March 2000

      Settlement talks have apparently delayed a decision in the U.S. Settlement talks have apparently delayed a decision in the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft. District Judge Thomas ...

25. Microsoft settlement offer rejected

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Sunday, 26 March 2000

      U.S. U.S. Justice Department officials rejected Microsoft's last-ditch offer to settle the government's antitrust suit against the company. One official said federal and state attorneys who reviewed ...

26. Warning prompts Microsoft settlement offer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 25 March 2000

      A warning from the judge in the Microsoft antitrust case that he was ready to rule prompted a new settlement offer from the company. A warning from the judge in the Microsoft antitrust case that ...

27. Microsoft antitrust case enters home stretch

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 22 February 2000

      Attorneys for Microsoft and the U.S. Attorneys for Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice present oral arguments today in the government's antitrust case against the software giant. U.S. ...

28. MS mediator to quell DOJ discord

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 25 November 1999

      Court papers in the Microsoft antitrust case indicate that the judge appointed a mediator in order to address the issue of "divergent views" among state and federal prosecutors.U.S. Court papers ...

29. Ralph Nader calls for Microsoft to spin off IE

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 23 November 1999

      Consumer advocate Ralph Nader says Microsoft should be forced to divest its Internet Explorer browser if the pending antitrust trial should end in a ruling to dismantle the company's software monopoly. ...

30. Mediator appointed in Microsoft case

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 20 November 1999

      A federal mediator has been appointed in the Microsoft antitrust case, an eleventh-hour move by the trial judge to force a settlement. A federal mediator has been appointed in the Microsoft antitrust ...

31. Judge to urge settlement in MS case?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 09 November 1999

      Reports are circulating that U.S. Reports are circulating that U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has asked attorneys on both sides of the Microsoft antitrust trial to meet in his chambers ...

32. Judge declares Microsoft a 'monopoly'

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 06 November 1999

      A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft wielded monopoly power to stifle competition and innovation, dealing the software giant a major setback in its struggle with the U.S. A federal judge has ...