Big technology companies using the MP3 format could be hit with a hail of legal claims after Microsoft was fined a whopping $1.5bn (£800m) by a San Diego court in a move that casts confusion over the future of digital downloads.
The US software group was yesterday ordered to pay two awards of $760m […]

Posted on February 28th, 2007 by admin
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Google looks set to begin selling corporate America an online suite of software that includes e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and calendar management, increasing the Internet search leader’s invasion on technological territory traditionally dominated software giants Microsoft and IBM.
The expansion, to be unveiled today, looks set to hamper Microsoft Corp.’s efforts to convince businesses to […]

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft is keen to stir up enthusiasm for Windows Vista, but when it comes to the 64-bit edition of the Microsoft’s new operating system, the software giant is sending somewhat mixed messages.
Vista is available in both flavours, 32-bit and 64-bit. With of course, the 64 bit version targeted at owners of recent computers with […]

Posted on February 21st, 2007 by admin
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Shares of Microsoft fell after Steve Ballmer, the companies CEO, signalled sales of the new Windows Vista programmes are unlikely to meet some analysts’ highest estimates.

“Some of the Windows revenue forecasts I’ve seen are overly aggressive,” Ballmer explaioned to analysts in New York. “You shouldn’t think of a huge surge in fiscal year ‘08 […]

Posted on February 20th, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft, who launched its Vista operating system just two weeks ago, said that it is going to replace it’s latest operating system (Vista) with the next-generation one as soon as in 2009, which would put the company back on the track of updating its OSs every two to three years. Unfortunately, the company […]

Posted on February 15th, 2007 by admin
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Bill Gates has branded recent Mac adverts broadcast in the US as lies and slated the vaunted security of the Mac OSX security.

The attack came in a Newsweek interview when he was asked about an Apple advert likening the upgrading of PC hardware for Vista compliance to human-surgery. He said: “There’s not even the […]

Posted on February 6th, 2007 by admin
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