Demand for new products such as the Windows Vista saw Microsoft make profits of $3.03bn (£1.47bn) in the past quarter, up a healthy 11% on last year.
For 2007-8 as a whole, the software colossus reported a $14bn profit on total sales of more than $51.1bn.
Profits in the past three months were dented […]
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft has said that it is facing a bill in excess of $1bn after extending all warranty’s on their xbox360 consoles from 1 year to 3.
The company conceded that it had been forced to make “an unacceptable number of repairs” to the consoles after key hardware failed.
Customers who suffer the problems will now […]
Posted on July 6th, 2007 by admin
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Windows users are being urged to install the June package of security patches from Microsoft.
The security update contains six patches which close 15 vulnerabilities found in a variety of Windows programs.
The patches help to shut a number of loopholes in Windows software, such as Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows […]
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million copies of its latest Operating System – Vista.
According to chairman Bill Gates, sales had been quicker than Microsoft had first expected. Windows is used on more than 90% of the world’s personal computers.
Vista has been on sale to consumers since the end of January, and there had […]
Posted on May 16th, 2007 by admin
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It’s a merger, or takeover, that has been considered numerous times over the past few years, and according to the New York Post, it’s being discussed once more. The new approach follows an offer Microsoft made to acquire Yahoo! a few months ago, sources said.
But Yahoo! spurned the advance of the software giant. […]
Posted on May 8th, 2007 by admin
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Responding to customer demand Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed on them.
The decision reverses a policy that begun in January that meant Windows Vista was the only operating system available on almost all new home machines.
The change came after Dell’s feedback site was inundated with calls for the […]
Posted on April 28th, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users.
The company wants to bring computing to a further one billion people by 2015.
Governments in developing countries can purchase the cut-price software, if they provide free PCs for […]
Posted on April 25th, 2007 by admin
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So your xbox 360 is out of warranty and one day later… you get the dreaded 3 rings of death?
Don’t worry, knock that £300 paper weight back into shape and all is well.
Posted on April 1st, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft released a number of patches for Windows Vista on Tuesday, including one designed to fix the problems Vista user have been facing when using iTunes.
The software maker issued a patch that is designed to fix a problem that left iPods vulnerable to being corrupted if Vista users select the operating system’s Safely Remove […]
Posted on March 28th, 2007 by admin
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The OpenOffice project has published an open letter to Dell chief exec, Michael Dell calling for him to bundle OpenOffice with new Dell systems.
“Let’s have a conversation about how we could build an ‘OpenOffice.org supplied by Dell’ product to give your customers what they are asking for,” the group’s marketing lead John McCreesh […]
Posted on March 15th, 2007 by admin
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