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Microsoft considering making Zune services available to Apple users

Oct 6, 2009
Microsoft is considering whether it should port the Zune software and services to other platforms, including Apple's. There's no guarantee that the Redmondians will end up doing this -- or timetable as to when this could happen -- but it'...

Microsoft releases XP Mode virtualization to manufacturing

Oct 1, 2009
Microsoft has released Windows XP Mode to manufacturing on October 1, company officials said, and it will be generally available on Microsoft.com on October 22, the launch day for Windows 7.

Microsoft plays the security card in response to Google's Chrome Frame

Sep 24, 2009
I was doubtful that Microsoft execs would have anything to say about Google's introduction this week of a plug-in that allows users to run the Google Chrome browser inside Internet Explorer. But I was wrong.

Microsoft makes Web development tools available for free

Sep 24, 2009
The newest "Spark" program, unveiled by Microsoft on September 24, is aimed at getting more Web developers to use Microsoft's Expression and other development tools.

Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code

Jul 20, 2009
Nope, that's not a typo in the headline. Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree, the company announced on the opening day of the OSCON open-source conf...

Office 15: Let the feature requests begin

Dec 4, 2009
Planning is already underway for the next release of Microsoft's productivity suite,known as Office 15, as a December 3 blog post on the Microsoft Access Team Blog site makes clear. The Access database team is soliciting input regarding new kinds of...

Microsoft delivers two more pieces of its Forefront enterprise security suite

Dec 3, 2009
Today Microsoft announced its plans for releasing two more pieces of its "Stirling" (a k a Forefront) enterprise security suite: Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG).

Report: Final Microsoft browser ballot may include Opera-suggested modifications

Dec 3, 2009
The seemingly never-ending antitrust trial in Europe may soon come to a close, if a new report by Bloomberg is on the money. Bloomberg reported on December 3 that the European Commission (EC) may issue its final remedy in the browser-bundling case...

Microsoft targets programming newbies with new Vedea visualization language

Dec 3, 2009
In mid-November, Microsoft researchers dropped a few hints about a new visualization language, codenamed Vedea, that was coming from Microsoft. On December 3, via a blog post, Microsoft officials provided more specifics about it.

Microsoft sells off part of its FAST enterprise-search acquisition

Dec 2, 2009
Microsoft has sold off two units of Fast Search and Transfer, the Norweigian enterprise search company it bought in 2008 for $1.23 billion, to Rocket Software. Rocket announced the sale on December 2.


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