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Microsoft has released the details about an updated version of the operating system that’ll be used for the Windows Phone and also additional GenX applications that are linked with phones, PCs and other devices. Windows Phone 7..
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AS the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has been awarded the Silver Buffalo, the highest Boy Scout honour in the US, for his services to youth.
The accolade is...
made popular Sep 15 2010
Bill Gates is not having a good year. The legendary firm he founded, Microsoft, used to appear invincible to competition. Microsoft was so massive that the Justice...
made popular May 28 2010
The PC market after enjoying the heyday of 30 years is showing a plateau, (or I would say a downfall) at least HP’s low margin during the Q1 FY10 results suggests...
made popular May 7 2010
Google is barnstorming the nation’s capital. Five years after it opened its Washington office, the tech giant is playing an increasingly powerful role in public...
made popular Apr 1 2010
Microsoft’s plans to buy Yahoo’s internet search and search advertising businesses have been cleared by both European and US regulators
made popular Feb 19 2010
The browser war may just be the most important battle over the internet. Back in the 1990s, Microsoft used anti-competitive tactics to sink then the hugely popular...
made popular Jan 4 2010
Microsoft has suspended the subscriptions of 1 million X-Box Live users after it was discovered that they modified their consoles in order to illegally download games...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man.
The picture, showing employees sitting around a...
made popular Aug 26 2009
Microsoft’s Zune was supposed to be the company’s answer to Apple’s widely-successful iPod. Needless to say, the Zune never attracted similar...
made popular Aug 17 2009
The Eastern District of Texas on Tuesday found that Microsoft infringed on U.S. Patent 5,787,449, held by Michel Vulpe, the founder of a Canadian company called i4i...
made popular Aug 17 2009
Google and Microsoft rivalry has begun long ago, where former is toiling and manipulating hard to save its search supremacy while latter is evermore anxious to take...
made popular Jul 30 2009
Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc inked a 10-year Web search deal to better compete against market leader Google Inc but stopped short of combining their display advertising...
made popular Jul 30 2009
After being kicked around by Apple for years in the firms famous PC v. Mac commercials, Microsoft has finally hit back with its own smart ad.
The series of “I...
made popular Jul 20 2009
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Google started functioning not a very long ago, year 1996, to be precise. Not many would have thought that it will take over the web market, but it did....
made popular Jul 14 2009
Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.
Google Chrome OS will be a development of its Chrome web...
made popular Jul 9 2009
Heavy-handed and power-unchecked European Union regulators have spent so much time going after Microsoft and collecting unjustified fines from the corporation that the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Microsoft hopes to unseat Google as the internet user’s search engine of choice after spending millions of dollars to launch its new ‘Bing’ browser. The news...
made popular May 29 2009
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The news on Thursday that Microsoft was launching a search engine heralded a wave of questions: was www.bing.com finally going to challenge Google’s dominance? Is a...
made popular May 29 2009
Google has long been the king of search, dominating rivals including Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. But it increasingly sees social networks such as Facebook as...
made popular May 27 2009
MICROSOFT in conjunction with the Uganda Performing Rights Society (UPRS) have nabbed Asians in Kampala with pirated computer software.
The Asians were caught during...
made popular May 27 2009
Every year, the United States governments publishes its Special 301 Report on international piracy. The list identifies the worst abusers of intellectual property and...
made popular May 6 2009
The great and courageous Microsoft has decided to play an active role in the Arab world. More than that it is adopting the language of pan-Arabism.
The software...
made popular May 4 2009
Microsoft finally allows users to remove software that they include on your system when you buy their new Operating System, Windows 7, next year. In response to the...
made popular Mar 9 2009
By Brenda Zulu
Microsoft and ESAMI are today launching the first session of the ‘Schools of Government’ initiative in Arusha, Tanzania.
In a statement made...
made popular Jan 23 2009
Microsoft seems to be having a bad couple of months with their SQL issues and IE troubles. Although this patch was scheduled for their “Patch Tuesday”, it fixes...
made popular Jan 15 2009
IBM, for 16 straight years, has dominated in most patents per year. This year, they have topped off at over 4,000. IBM managed to beat out their challenger Samsung by...
made popular Jan 15 2009
Windows 7 will be released tomorrow and only 2.5 million downloads available. I bet you are asking how can I get it and where. Well, it is quite simple really.
1) You...
made popular Jan 15 2009
Just hours ago Steve Ballmer, Microsofts CEO, gave the Microsoft Keynote speech which lays out the upcoming year. With this year so full of economic depressions I...
made popular Jan 11 2009
Internet Explorer, the gateway to the internet, or so it was back in the day is anything but now. Currently, there are several decent browsers that can get you to the...
made popular Jan 8 2009
By Brenda Zulu
TWAS, the academy of sciences of the developing world, Microsoft Research, and the African Academy of Science (AAS) announce the creation of the...
made popular Dec 15 2008
Ballmer has declared “Acquisition discussions are finished,” while leaving the door open to some kind of searching partnering deal. As you’d expect, Yahoo’s...
made popular Nov 22 2008
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by William Henry Gates III, who is a Crypto Jew. Gates was refused membership at Augusta Country Club, which was when they still had...
made popular Oct 26 2008
Chinese internet users have reacted with fury after Microsoft launched an anti-piracy tool to combat the widespread sale of fake software.
made popular Oct 23 2008
If you hadn’t noticed, Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads have been strangely absent from TV of late. During the baseball playoffs, I noticed only iPhone ads. I know the...
made popular Oct 22 2008
Just as the title says, Microsoft is being sued for selling and concealing faulty Xbox 360’s. They allegedly sold broken, if you will, Xbox 360s, then covered up...
made popular Oct 18 2008
Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Internet firm Yahoo, a company spokesman said Tuesday, after the chief executive of the software giant was quoted as saying a...
made popular Oct 17 2008
With shares of Research In Motion among those that have seen a massive drop in recent months, Reuters on Friday made the case that the company could make a juicy...
made popular Oct 11 2008
On the face of it, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Gordon Brown don’t have much in common.
made popular Oct 6 2008
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during a forum on the future of computing in Cologne, western Germany, Friday, April 24, 2009. Ballmer said Friday the computer software giant expects to have to deal with a weak economy for at least several years. The..
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