Microsoft Updates Zune Subscription to Include Free Music
Users of Microsoft's Zune Pass subscription currently pay $15 a month to gain access to millions of music tracks via the Zune Marketplace, but until today, that music became unaccessible if they let their subscriptions run out. Now, however, Microsoft
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Ballmer: Yahoo! No Bargain at Any Price
At Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting this week, CEO Steve Ballmer emphatically closed the door on the possibility that his company was interested in purchasing ailing Internet giant Yahoo!. His frank assessment of the situation sent Yahoo!'s stock
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Xbox 360 Overhaul Arrives with New UI, Avatars
Xbox 360 owners who logon to the system's Xbox Live system this morning will receive the most significant functional change yet to the console's user interface, or dashboard. Dubbed the New Xbox Experience, this new front-end features a completely new
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Microsoft Kills OneCare, Will Launch Free Security Solution
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it would retire its $50-a-year security subscription product, Windows Live OneCare, and replace it with a free solution codenamed "Morro." Unlike OneCare, however, Morro will focus only on core anti-malware features and
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Yang Steps Down as Yahoo! CEO
Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang has reached a "mutual" agreement with the company to step down as CEO as soon as a replacement can be found. The arguably overdue move comes as the struggling Internet company continues to lose value and one-time suitor
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Microsoft Launches Hosted Exchange, SharePoint Services
Microsoft on Monday announced the launch of its first broadly available cloud computing solutions under the banner Microsoft Online Services (MOS). The company is offering Microsoft-hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and other server products to
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Windows SBS 2008 vs. MOS: It's Time for the Cloud
Microsoft just released Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008, the best version yet of its small business server solution. For most potential small business customers of this product, however, it's time to move on.
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Intel Ships Next-Gen Core i7 Microprocessor
With an odd sense of nervousness tied back to its mid-1990's Pentium debacle, microprocessor giant Intel on Monday delivered its next-generation Core i7 chips to customers. The i7 represents Intel's biggest architectural change since its mobile-oriented
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of November 17, 2008
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including Microsoft's not-so-first online store, a PC industry recession, Microsoft's 0 percent financing deal, Sun layoffs and restructuring, Google voice search, Vista Capable, and so much more
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Windows Live to Get New Services, New Integration
Microsoft this morning announced a major coming update to its Windows Live stable of offerings, with major updates coming both to its application suite--called Windows Live Essentials--and its numerous online services. Microsoft says that these new
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Microsoft Ships Small and Medium Business Servers
Microsoft on Wednesday made Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 available to customers. The new products are the culmination of years of work at meeting the needs of small and medium-sized
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Microsoft Outspending Google to Gain Share
Some see irony in Microsoft's unsuccessful attempts to compete with the new tech bully on the block, Google. But for the software giant, beating Google isn't just a matter of pride, it's about survival. So with consumers picking Google's search
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Visual Studio 2010 Details Emerge
The next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio developer environment won't just allow programmers to create slick, great-looking applications based on the latest Microsoft presentation technologies. No, Visual Studio 2010 will itself be built on those same
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Microsoft Announces Search Deal ... with Sun?
Microsoft on Monday announced that it had reached a major Internet search deal with a former rival. It just wasn't the rival we've all been expecting. Instead, Sun Microsystems will distribute Microsoft's MSN browser toolbar to Internet Explorer (IE)
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Windows Server 2008 R2: Not Your Average R2
Last week at WinHEC, Microsoft divulged a number of interesting details about the upcoming R2 update to Windows Server 2008. Get the scoop.
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Microsoft, Yahoo! Drama Continues, But Why?
Not that Microsoft was asking, but I've got some advice for the company and its mercurial CEO Steve Ballmer: Don't do it. I'm referring of course to ailing Internet giant Yahoo!, which has spent the past year in a bizarre death spiral that was sped up in
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of November 10, 2008
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including a slew of Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft silliness; Steve Ballmer walks up to a mic and hilarity ensues, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and the lockstep myth, and so much more
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Google, Yahoo! Abandon Joint Ad Deal
As expected, online giant Google pulled out of its proposed advertising deal with rival Yahoo! after regulators from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) raised antitrust objections. The companies had worked to appease the DOJ's concerns over the past few
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WinHEC 2008: Windows 7, 2008 R2 Take Center Stage
While Microsoft used its developer-oriented PDC 2008 conference last week to unveil the surface goodies available in its upcoming Windows 7 OS, at this week's WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) 2008 show promises a deeper peek at the
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Microsoft Finally Retires Windows 3
Over a decade after it became unviable technologically, Microsoft finally retired Windows 3, the version of its OS that catapulted the software giant to fame, fortune, and industry prominence. Well, sort of. Microsoft had been offering the final version
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