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 Topic: MicrosoftThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
PC makers, distributors pass on Windows XP N
Posted by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 03:58 PM
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| PARIS, France (AP) -- PC makers and distributors are holding back from buying the new alternative version of Windows XP that Europe's competition commissioner ordered Microsoft Corp. to offer as part of the punishment in the software maker's long antitrust battle with the European Union.
Windows XP N was released to distributors last week in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and will be available to the public in the next few weeks. Versions in 10 additional languages will be released in July.
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Microsoft Says MSN Site Hacked in S. Korea
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 01:29 AM
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| WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. says hackers booby-trapped its popular MSN Web site in South Korea to try to steal passwords from visitors. The company said it was unclear how many Internet users might have been victimized.
Microsoft said Thursday it cleaned the Web site, www.msn.co.kr, and removed the dangerous software code that unknown hackers had added earlier this week. A spokesman, Adam Sohn, said Microsoft was confident its English-language Web sites were not vulnerable to the same type of attack.
South Korea is a leader in high-speed Internet users worldwide. Microsoft's MSN Web properties - which offer news, financial advice, car- and home-buying information and more - are among the most popular across the Web.
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Microsoft Selects Habeas' Email Verification Solution
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 01:20 AM
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| June 2, 2005 (FinancialWire) Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has selected Habeas Inc. s SafeList for use with its MSN and MSN Hotmail platforms with a planned implementation this fall. Microsoft, which is competing with Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) in the free email space, will begin supporting Habeas Certified email in MSN Hotmail as part of their layered technology regimen for protecting customers' inboxes from spam, phishing and other email-based intrusions. With the use of the Habeas SafeList, Microsoft said it expects to be better able to focus its anti-spam filtering resources on non-certified email, which is more likely to be spam or to pose a security threat to its subscribers. Habeas Certified email is email that has been sent by accredited senders who have met, and continue to meet, Habeas' strict certification standards.
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MSN Site Hacking Went Undetected for Days
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 01:19 AM
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| WASHINGTON - Password-stealing software planted by hackers was active on Microsoft's popular MSN Web site in South Korea for days before the world's largest software company learned about the break-in and removed the computer code.
Police investigators and Microsoft specialists are continuing to search for clues to the culprits behind this week's high-profile computer break-in. More details emerged Friday about the hacking, which targeted subscribers of an online game called "Lineage" that is popular in Asia.
Microsoft Corp. said it had cleaned the Web site, www.msn.co.kr, and removed the software code that had been planted on its news page. It said another company that operates the MSN Korea site apparently failed to apply necessary software patches, leaving its server computers vulnerable.
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New Microsoft Product to Bundle Services
Posted by: Anonymous on Friday, May 27, 2005 - 04:11 AM
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| REDMOND, Wash. - The next wave of Microsoft's flagship Office products, to be released in the second half of 2006, may include virtual "workspaces" that let people collaborating on a project update documents and keep track of e-mails, the company said Thursday. Office Communicator, scheduled to be released sometime next month, will bundle e-mail, instant message and other services, letting people switch from text messaging to video chats with the click of a button, the company said at its annual CEO summit. It will also let people work on documents together while they're instant messaging.
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Microsoft Adds Voluntary Advertising to Msn's Instant Messaging
Posted by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 10:05 AM
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| Microsoft Corp. is betting that many computer users will want brand images around their instant messages in the same way that many people want product logos on their shirts. And the company's MSN division sees the situation as a new opportunity to boost its advertising revenue. The latest version of MSN Messenger, released last night, will introduce the concept of "branded experience advertising" to the widely used instant-messaging software. Advertisers will be able to offer specialized backgrounds, icons, animated pictures and other features that incorporate their advertising themes.
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Microsoft's finance chief leaves for venture-capital firm
Posted by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 06:41 PM
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| SEATTLE -- In a surprise announcement Tuesday, Microsoft said its chief financial officer, John Connors, is leaving to join a venture-capital investment firm. onnors joined Microsoft 16 years ago and served as its top finance official the past five years. He helped the company complete the transition from tech highflier to more mature corporate giant. ''He's done a really good job during a tough time, and now there's kind of a break in the action,'' says tech industry analyst Matt Rosoff of research firm Directions on Microsoft. ''It's a good time to go.''
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BT calls on Microsoft for hosted services
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 12:44 PM
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| BT has promised to accelerate its rollout of internet-based services for small businesses after sealing an alliance with Microsoft. Under the terms of the $7m deal, Microsoft will provide the telco with .Net-based software and service packages, including BizTalkServer 2004, designed to provide enhanced connectivity and to streamline operational and billing processes. BT will use this software framework to roll out email, shared calendar and contacts and other software applications to small and medium-sized firms.
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Microsoft to Open Research Center in India
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 12:43 PM
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| SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is further expanding its presence in India with plans to open a research center in Bangalore. The latest Microsoft Research campus will open in January 2005, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said Tuesday. The researchers in India will focus on ways to create, store and search information in multiple languages, as well as technology for use in emerging markets and other specialties. Microsoft already operates research campuses in Beijing; Cambridge, England; Redmond; San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
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Microsoft in home market push
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 09:13 AM
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| Microsoft unveiled the next version of its Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) to over 120 UK and European system builders last week in an effort to drum up support for its home market push. The company gave the first European demonstration of the finished Windows XP MCE 2005 operating system at Gartner's System Builder Summit in Dublin. The third version of the OS boasts new tools for recording, playing, accessing and storing a wide range of multimedia content, from videos and email to TV and music
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