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1. Microsoft preps critical security updates

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday patch blitzkrieg Microsoft has confirmed that it is preparing a number of critical patches for both Windows and Office. The 6 updates - three of which are critical - address 15 vulnerabilities ...

2. Tool stops search engines gathering your data

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... privacy is preserved," said Alexandre Viejo, a researcher at the Computer Engineering Department of the Rovira i Virgili University. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live search save ...

3. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

   (Software/Software Features)

   Microsoft is giving its MSN home page a revamp, with a new, more open look and integrated Facebook and Twitter feeds. Microsoft is giving its MSN home page a revamp, with a new, more open look and integrated ...

4. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   ... and he is changing his tune). As a result they have shifted their negative campaign against Windows Vista into a FUD campaign against Windows 7 using innuendo and association to disparage Microsoft’s ...

5. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... one of the strongest marketing companies in any industry and Steve Jobs is a considered to be a master while Microsoft in recent years hasn’t really seemed to be in their league. This goes to the core, ...

6. Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance

   (Software/Software Features)

   Nvidia has welcomed the official debut of Microsoft Windows 7. A company spokesperson explained that the new operating system will significantly accelerate system performance by using the DirectCompute ...

7. Google to search on Twitter Tweets too

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... 140 character "screams of consciousness" look like they're here to stay. And so yesterday Microsoft with its Bing search engine and Google with its, er, Google search engine decided separately and individually ...

8. Microsoft upgrades Bing with live Twitter feed

   (Software/Software Features)

   Microsoft has upgraded its Bing search engine with the addition of a live Twitter feed. According to Microsoft spokesperson Paul Yiu, the new feature will allow users to locate specific Tweets in a ...

9. Google draws global bead on Microsoft, IBM

   (Software/Software Features)

   Search giant Google will today introduce a mass marketing campaign across the world in a bid to draw customers away from Microsoft and IBM office apps into its own application web.Search giant Google ...

10. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... also-rans. Over at Microsoft, despite sitting on a pile of money, an adjudicated monopoly, a vast market share, a devoted following, smart employees, and much more in his favor, Steve Ballmer did very ...

11. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... networking in its latest iPhone and iPods." The introduction of a native iPhone FM radio app could help lure Microsoft fanbois away from the Zune HD. The upgraded device - powered by Nvidia's Tegra processor ...

12. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Unexpectedly good results for Intel's third quarter combined with ASML turning in a profit for its third quarter is bound to bring some hope that the semiconductor industry is on the turn.Unexpectedly ...

13. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... calling it bloatware and suggesting Microsoft needs to start over to create something leaner.  Over the years one of the words that have consistently been connected to Windows is the word “Bloat”.   ...

14. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    News Analysis Microsoft's future begins next week. That's when the company ships Windows 7, its latest operating system. If Microsoft stumbles with Windows 7 as it did with Vista, people will start ...

15. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion: Shock news reaches us from iolo Technologies claiming that Windows 7 takes ages to load. Our response: who gives a rat’s ass, especially as it doesn't... Opinion: Shock news reaches us from ...

16. Meet Microsoft, the underdog

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog in Paris today. Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog ...

17. AT&T launches Windows and tilt phones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    AT&T has announced six new phones, including its first models based on Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS.AT&T has announced six new phones, including its first models based on Microsoft's new ...

18. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia is to work with Microsoft to use its Tesla GPUs for high performance parallel computing using the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. Nvidia is to work with Microsoft to use its Tesla GPUs ...

19. Nintendo lowers Wii price point to $200

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...  by analysts after Microsoft and Sony lowered the prices of their respective consoles. Indeed, EEDAR's Jesse Divnich told TG Daily in August that Nintendo should decrease the price of its Wii console to ...

20. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    While the EU is content to slam Intel and Microsoft for billions in antitrust suits, it takes a rather more relaxed view on fellow US giant Google, presumably on the grounds that it's not evil. While ...

21. States object to Google Books settlement too

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... on digitizing books, creating a virtual library of millions of volumes of out of print books which however still remain in copyright. Microsoft and Amazon both oppose such a deal. See Also What's wrong ...

22. Who needs a supercomputer when an Xbox will do?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... computer or spending thousands on a parallel network of PCs. But Scarle had a better idea, having previously worked as a software engineer for Rare, part of Microsoft Games Studios. He reckoned that ...

23. Microsoft's Zune tunes in to HD Radio

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Microsoft has introduced its long-awaited HD Zune. The upgraded device - powered by Nvidia's Tegra processor - is capable of rendering high-quality video and playing HD radio. San Francisco, Calif. ...

24. Microsoft snipes at Google's market share with Visual Search

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft has launched a virtual war of attrition against Google by introducing Visual Search for Bing. The Redmond-based behemoth is clearly hoping to lure surfers away from a traditional Google search ...

25. What’s wrong with a Google virtual library?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... easily discount bleatings from Microsoft and Amazon about Google’s scheme. They probably wish they’d thought of it first. But like Google, they’re corporations too and it’s all about competition, and ultimately ...

26. Microsoft says "We are not pornographers"

    (Software/Software Features)

    Software giant Microsoft has denied that it is a porn peddler after some sharp eyed hacks discovered some peculiarities over search engine Bing's advertisements. Software giant Microsoft has denied ...

27. US Copyright Office attacks Google Books deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Google, which has already attracted the attention of the Department of Justice and authorities from the European Union. Both Microsoft and Amazon have also expressed their opposition to the settlement, ...

28. Netbooks rocket in popularity - especially when they're free

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Microsoft indicated it is their desire to increase the ASP of mini-notes," said John F Jacobs, DisplaySearch's Director of Notebook Market Research. "A significant increase to the ASP of mini-notes may ...

29. Google Toolbar can't handle Chrome

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... become loyal Yahoo or Microsoft search users," it smirks.  ...

30. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... time round, as we reported on the IT Examiner, a heap of firms got a writ from Xpoint.The company launched a patent action in a Delaware court suing Microsoft, Intel, Marvell, Hewlett Packard, Cypress,  ...

31. Industry heavyweights gang up against Google

    (Software/Software Features)

    Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo have added their not inconsiderable weight to a coalition opposing Google's plans for scanning books. Silicon Valley (CA) - Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo have added their not ...

32. Search engines 'facilitate illegal prescription drug sales'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... prescription drugs without a prescription, and had been sent counterfeit medications, from bing.com online pharmacy advertisers. A few days after Microsoft responded that it had manually reviewed its ...

33. Everybody loves Google

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Yahoo and Microsoft - scored 83. Yahoo's search engine scored 77. Because the survey was carried out earlier this year, Microsoft was evaluated on the basis of MSN rather than Bing, and scored 75. Even ...

34. Games market goes into freefall

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...  The Wii remained the top-selling console, followed by Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's Playstation 3. But only around 250,000 Wii consoles were sold - less than half the figure for last July. Nintendo's ...

35. Smartphone downloads to top 6.67 bn by 2014

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... information, and personalization requirements of the mobile user," says Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Vikrant Gandhi. "For example, Apple, Google, Nokia, Palm, and Microsoft have either already ...

36. Next-gen Google Search delivers more results, but are they better?

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... of Young Werther 163,000 vs. 91,200. A quick comparison with Microsoft shows that Bing still has the lead in many narrowly defined search topics and if you are looking for the greatest number of search ...

37. Microsoft rolls out Windows 7 to MSDN and TechNet

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft has released Windows 7 (RTM) for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The operating system will be available for download on August 7 for Volume License customers with an existing Software Assurance ...

38. Microsoft alleged to profit from illegal pharmacies

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... company. The two companies have released a report analyzing the online advertisements for Internet pharmacies displayed by Bing. The report indicates that 89.7 percent of the Microsoft Internet pharmacy ...

39. Microsoft to hire at least 400 Yahoo employees

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Yahoo revealed more details about its 10-year search deal with Microsoft that was announced last week. According to the agreement, at least 400 Yahoo employees will move to Microsoft’s payroll and Microsoft ...

40. Microhoo is not just about traffic. It’s about data. Period.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Opinion – I am glad some deal between Microsoft and Yahoo finally got done. Despite its seemingly simple purpose to give Microsoft much more leverage in advertising through increased search market share, ...

41. Verizon to give developers 70% of App Store revenue

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... to compete with RIM’s own Blackberry App World. Stratton added that Vcast App Store will not "collide with or compete with" platforms produced by competitors like RIM, Microsoft, or Google. It will complement ...

42. Microsoft and Yahoo in alliance against Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Microsoft and Yahoo finally reached an agreement how to collaborate, subject to regulatory approval. It may not be the acquisition the two companies were aiming for initially, but there is now a 10 ...

43. Yahoo to search with Microsoft, report says

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Microsoft and Yahoo may be close to announcing a major search deal this week, according to a report published by Advertising Age. Yahoo will reportedly use Microsoft’s Bing as search technology, allowing Microsoft ...

44. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... third or fourth quarter of this year and the market won't hit the levels of 2008 until 2010. The PC market will be helped by Apple Snow Leopard and Microsoft Windows 7, plus AMD and Nvidia will bring ...

45. Microsoft and Yahoo still working on pre-nup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Despite reports that Microsoft and Yahoo were close to a Google-worrying marriage deal last week, the two sides are still no closer to consummating their never-ending fairytale romance. Despite reports ...

46. Microsoft revenue plummets 17 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Microsoft has confirmed that fourth quarter revenue plummeted a shocking 17 percent to $13.10 billion. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $3.99 billion, ...

47. Google goes postal down-under

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... in New Zealand. NZ Post announced a three-year deal that will see the State Own Enterprise's 2100 postal services staff ditch Microsoft Office, Exchange and Outlook in favour of Google Apps Premier. ...

48. Yahoo to get new look

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the years.  The site is visited by  340 million people monthly Things might change if Yahoo signs a partnership deal with Microsoft. This will mean that it will be able to show its own display ...

49. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... often get bonuses and rewards as if they had successfully executed. I believe the Windows Vista mess was mainly caused by Microsoft’s behavior. Similar behavior effectively killed a long line of companies ...

50. US game sales down 31%

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... million in June 2008. Market research outfit NPD Group says the only platform that saw year on year growth was Microsoft's Xbox 360. "The first half of the year has been tough largely due to comparisons ...