Archive for February 5th, 2010

Microsoft Failing In Innovation, Former Executive Asserts

On Feb. 3, a former Microsoft executive named Dick Brass published an op-ed piece in The New York Times that suggested his ex-company was ‘failing’ due to a combination of infighting and an inability to innovate. Those issues, Brass said, had led to

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Microsoft axes Xbox Live for first-gen consoles, games

Microsoft’s Marc Whitten announced in a blog post today that the company would discontinue Xbox LIVE for original Xbox consoles and games, including both titles for the first-generation Xbox and Xbox Originals. The switch to Xbox 360-only service will

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Microsoft Patch To Leave IE Hole Open

By Read the Original Article at // targetAction rating 0 ) else The company plans to release 13 security bulletins next week, but the Internet Explorer vulnerability identified on Wednesday won’t be among them. Microsoft on Thursday that its monthly

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etc: Microsoft will be dropping Linux and Unix support in the next release of its FAST enterprise search products.

Microsoft will be dropping Linux and Unix support in the next release of its FAST enterprise search products. Read More: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5166

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Microsoft banner ads vanish from Facebook

Microsoft will no longer handle display ads on Facebook, as the companies rejiggered the advertising pact they announced in 2007 when Redmond stuffed $240m into the social-networking site. ‘We made the mutual decision that Facebook would take over

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Microsoft to phase out its enterprise search offerings for Linux and Unix

Microsoft is going to be phasing out support for Unix and Linux platforms for its FAST enterprise search products as of their next release (some time after 2010). Microsoft shared that information, as well as other news about its near- and longer-term

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Microsoft Expands Search-Ad Agreement With Facebook (Update3)

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., an investor in Facebook Inc., expanded an Internet-search agreement with the social-networking service, while losing the site’s banner- advertising business. An earlier agreement to sell Internet-search ads for

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Original Xbox Users Upgrade to 360 or Lose LIVE Gaming

You can’t be more blunt than this: get an Xbox 360 or go away! That’s not the exact sentiment being expressed by Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE team , but there’s a good chance that users of the original Xbox who want to continue on Xbox LIVE are going to

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Boy, 9, reaches for his fifth Microsoft certification

Marko Calasan was born with a passion for technology. Following four previous Microsoft certifications, this nine-year-old from Skopje, Macedonia is targeting the “Microsoft Certified Trainer” (MCT) certificate. Skopje, Macedonia – Whether it was a

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