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1. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   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 ...

2. Nintendo scopes new gyros for Wii

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 18 May 2009

   ... MotionPlus that will enhance the game platform's motion sensing capabilities at E3 next month, where competitors Microsoft and Sony are thought to be unveiling their own motion-control technologies for ...

3. Cell phone battles in Barcelona

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   Tuesday, 17 February 2009

   ... the smart phone market, which has many similarities to the original PC market, is following a similar path, but with some interesting differences. Some of the players are the same in that you have Microsoft ...

4. Financial crisis slams Silicon Valley

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Tuesday, 07 October 2008

   ... Sun Microsystems: -76% 3. AMD: -68% 4. Ebay: -59% 5. Yahoo: -57% 6. Apple: -56% 7. Dell: -56% 8. Google: -54% 9. Cisco: -45% 10. Intel: -42% 11. Adobe: -40% 12. Microsoft: -31% 13. Oracle: -28% 14. IBM: ...

5. Microsoft’s Project Mojave: Changing the perceptions of Windows Vista

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 29 July 2008

     Analyst Opinion - Microsoft just released videos of the “Mojave Experiment”, which basically was a survey session aiming to convince a bunch of folks that Windows Vista is not as bad as they may ...

6. Nintendo rocks the house at E3, touts console and handheld supremacy

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 15 July 2008

   ... President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime, slammed home the message that Nintendo, the Wii and the DS aren’t fads and they certainly have the marketing numbers to prove it. Yesterday, Microsoft’s senior vice ...

7. Android delayed to Q4: iPhone 3G set for slam dunk?

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 23 June 2008

   ... mobile phone space, Google assembled 30 industry heavy-weights around the Open Handset Alliance. Apple, Microsoft and Nokia, however, did not join the alliance as they are pursuing their respective iPhone, ...

8. Mossberg approves Firefox 3

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Thursday, 05 June 2008

   ... The columnist warns his opinion on Firefox may change, citing new features coming out with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 scheduled later this year and noting that Apple is continuously improving Safari, ...

9. No new features in Mac OS X "Snow Leopard"?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 05 June 2008

   ... clearly is multi-touch technology. It is a hot novelty that Microsoft already announced as a big feature of Windows 7. And quite apparently, Microsoft thinks that multi-touch alone can sell the new OS. ...

10. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ... ranging from the very beginnings in November 2003 to the shutdown of HD DVD today. The list allows you to recall the role of publishers, hardware companies, the Playstation 3 as well as Microsoft, which ...

11. Blackberry outage hits North America

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 April 2007

    ... is known for its reliability and quickness, often receiving the emails quicker than Microsoft Outlook. BlackBerry emails flow through the Research in Motion network operations center (NOC) and then out ...

12. Majority of bloggers slam Windows Vista

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 30 January 2007

    ... things you want," analyst Michael Cherry was quoted as saying. A review from Italian site Electricnews.net criticizes Microsoft for an uneven pricing scale for the different versions of Vista, saying ...

13. Consumer Electronics Show 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Sunday, 31 December 2006

    ... 2007   All CES 2007 stories:   Scalers beat HD DVD and Blu-ray at CES 2007 - analysis The $100 OLPC laptop in detail Microsoft says Crysis will be Vista's ...

14. Microsoft believes it can sell a million Zunes by June

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 06 December 2006

    Responding to critics who say that the Zune is destined to be a flop, Microsoft today announced that it plans to have sold a million units by June 2007, a sales target that Apple attained about two years ...

15. Microsoft's Xbox iTV surprise

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 07 November 2006

    We've known for some time Apple was planning a spoiler party at MacWorld during CES to take the edge off Microsoft's Vista launch later that same month. Today Microsoft struck first by launching Xbox ...

16. Microsoft slams mobile devices with social software service

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 09 October 2006

    As reported on the official Microsoft blog, version 1.0 of Slam, a social networking application for Windows Mobile devices, has been released. Slam allows users to send text and picture messages in bulk ...

17. 9/11 and the Internet: Limits and opportunities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 10 September 2006

    ... Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL saw record traffic, with AOL's AIM jumping to 700 million messages in one day. In a time when broadband Internet connections were just being installed around the country and dial-up ...

18. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo slammed over China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 20 July 2006

      Google, Microsoft and Yahoo betrayed their values and colluded with government censorship in China in pursuit of lucrative revenue opportunities, according to human rights charity Amnesty International. ...

19. Microsoft execs slam Sony Blu-ray strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 31 May 2006

      The war of words between bitter rivals Microsoft and Sony has intensified, with top Xbox Europe execs launching an astonishing attack on the Japanese firm's decision to include its next-generation ...

20. Real Networks boss says Ipod owners are obtaining music illegally

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 11 May 2006

    ... we'll have good share and Microsoft will have good share, and there may be one or two others. I think particularly as we move into a time where consumers want content to work on multiple platforms, the ...

21. The summation: Did Microsoft just dodge a bullet in EU court?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 April 2006

    An historic week of hearings in the European Commission antitrust case against Microsoft drew to a close this morning in the Court of First Instance, with one of the leading judges on the 13-member panel ...

22. Microsoft didn't really pioneer open source...did it?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 April 2006

    A TG Daily article last Friday on Microsoft's new open source software laboratory, and the blog devoted to it, opened by saying Microsoft may have pioneered the open source movement. Whenever there's ...

23. Microsoft and open source: no longer incompatible?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 07 April 2006

    Interoperability is the watchword at Microsoft these days, but the question is, is it by choice or by design? Last week, the company's Open Source Software laboratories debuted a new blog, called Port ...

24. Lawmakers slam U.S. firms aiding China cyber-cops

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 01 February 2006

    ... could lead to rules on American technology companies operating in repressive states. The Congressional Human Rights Caucus heard experts tell how technology titans Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems ...

25. Jobs' comments indicate Apple/Microsoft rivalry has officially resumed

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Wednesday, 21 September 2005

      Jo Best at Silicon.com is reporting that, in addition to yesterday's highly-touted slam of the music industry for demanding higher song download prices, Apple CEO Steve Jobs also took Microsoft ...

26. Customers unimpressed with Microsoft licensing changes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 16 September 2005

      Microsoft's attempts to placate customers by revamping its controversial Software Assurance (SA) volume licensing programme have been slammed by IT directors who want a complete overhaul of the ...

27. Nonprofits slam Microsoft's Vista name

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 02 August 2005

      Microsoft Monday again came under fire for its choice of the name "Windows Vista" for the next version of its client operating system, this time from two groups that help health-care organizations ...

28. Microsoft slammed for gay rights bill reversal

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 22 April 2005

      While Microsoft prepares to "Start Something" next week at WinHEC 2005, the company is facing a heap of criticism that threatens to overshadow its biggest event in years. While Microsoft prepares ...

29. Gartner slams Microsoft's security strategy

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 18 February 2005

      Microsoft has been slammed for trying to force customers to upgrade to its latest products by refusing to provide acceptable levels of security in its older offerings. Microsoft has been slammed ...

30. Rumors Say That Microsoft Was Also Affected By Slammer Worm

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 29 January 2003

      Rumors indicate that a series of internal e-mails reveal that not even Microsoft's own giant network was immune from the Slammer worm (also known as Sapphire). Rumors indicate that a series of ...

31. Internet Suffers A Worm That Hit Servers This Weekend

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 27 January 2003

      The Sapphire worm that hit servers running Microsoft SQL this weekend was a serious disruption for Internet users. The Sapphire worm that hit servers running Microsoft SQL this weekend was a serious ...

32. Microsoft slammed for e-mail security holes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 05 May 2000

      A leading security analyst said the Love Bug epidemic highlighted serious flaws in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program. A leading security analyst said the Love Bug epidemic highlighted serious ...

33. Hotmail users slam spam filter

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 19 November 1999

      Users of Microsoft's Hotmail service are complaining that a new controversial junk-email filter does not appear to be working. Users of Microsoft's Hotmail service are complaining that a new controversial ...