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 Topic: MicrosoftThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
Behind the Sun-Microsoft Rhetoric
Posted by: trraju on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 08:49 AM
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| There's an old cliche known as "the elephant in the room."
It's huge and in the way, but somehow nobody talks about it.
The elephant in the room last Friday, when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced their fairly stunning detente, was commoditization - the pressure from widely available, low-cost alternatives.
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Microsoft Says It's Not Bankrolling Linux Opponent
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, March 08, 2004 - 11:37 PM
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| Microsoft Corp. yesterday denied any financial involvement in a deal that provided $50 million to a company battling against users of Linux, the open-source operating system that has emerged as a competitive threat to Microsoft Windows.The statement followed the publication on the Internet of an e-mail that some view as evidence that Microsoft is secretly bankrolling lawsuits filed by the SCO Group against a number of companies, including IBM Corp. SCO alleges that its Unix technology was illegally incorporated into Linux.
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Microsoft Revamps Business Portal
Posted by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 01:44 PM
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| Microsoft Business Solutions has unveiled version 2.0 of its Business Portal software.The company said that, integrated with Microsoft Business Solutions' Great Plains and Solomon business applications, the new release will help organisations share business information.The major developments centre on the adoption of Windows SharePoint Services as the foundation of version 2.0.
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Good Expands Microsoft's Wireless E-Mail
Posted by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 01:40 PM
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| SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Upstart Good Technology Inc. announced Tuesday a deal to extend its corporate wireless e-mail service to handhelds based on Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC operating system, stepping up the competition in the heated mobile market.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's software, which allows business users to wirelessly access their e-mail accounts in real-time, could already run on palmOne's Treo 600 smartphone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices.
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Microsoft Takes on Teen Over Web Site
Posted by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 06:36 AM
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| VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Mike Rowe thinks it's funny that his catchy name for a Web site design company sounds a lot like Microsoft.
The software giant, however, is not amused.
``Since my name is Mike Rowe, I thought it would be funny to add 'soft' to the end of it,'' said Rowe, a 17-year-old computer geek and Grade 12 student in Victoria, British Columbia.
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