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Today Microsoft announced the beta release of Windows 7 and the availability of the new version of Windows Live. The beta of Windows is on schedule and feature complete. The information that tens of millions of customers shared with Microsoft guided this
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The next generation of Zune was launched earlier this week. This release combines two very important things: v A free software-and-services update, which will work on any of the existing Zune family of devices, as well as the new devices we are bringing
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Microsoft announced that it is slashing prices of its flagship gaming device, XBOX 360, in the US. This will take the price of the basic model down to $199, approximately $50 cheaper than Nintendo Wii. It said that prices for the other Xbox models will
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Microsoft has introduced new features in .NET with their Service Pack 1 (SP1) release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Most of the stuff included in the service pack releases is new features and functionality rather than bug fixes and updates
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Microsoft reached another milestone today with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V , the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. The nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version
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The XNA Community Games Platform team has delivered on their promise to enable game development for Zune devices with the release of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). Some key features that are available in this release: · Create
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Today Microsoft unveils RoboChamps ( www.robochamps.com ), a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers from around the world, that demonstrates the power of the Microsoft platform to enable a broad range of developers
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The capacity of Microsoft Corp.'s free Connector regional bus system for employees will more than double under an expansion announced Wednesday. The service, which began in September, will add new routes and expand to a capacity of 4,600 seats a day from
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Microsoft has partnered with some of the world’s top social networks on contact data portability. Starting today, we will be working with Facebook , Bebo , Hi5 , Tagged and LinkedIn to exchange functionally-similar Contacts APIs, allowing us to create
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In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista. For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for
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Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors , saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp. According to the lawsuit, Yahoo's board is pursuing "value-destructive" third-party
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Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable—broadcast LIVE over the Internet on Wednesday, March 5 th . The subject? Windows Vista adoption and deployment. On the panel with Mark will
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Microsoft announced today, DreamSpark, a new program that gives free developer, designer and related software to college students in 11 countries. DreamSpark goes live today in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the
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Here's a cool video of " What's life "really" like at Microsoft " for all the employees :)
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Microsoft Corp. agreed to acquire Danger Inc., maker of the technology behind T-Mobile's popular Sidekick phone , as part of its quest to expand its offerings in the mobile realm. "The addition of Danger serves as a perfect complement to our existing
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