Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

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by Michael Arrington on November 14, 2008

Facebook’s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended this year.
Those ties may explain why Facebook was willing to ignore its own privacy policy [...]

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by Michael Arrington on October 28, 2008

Microsoft made a major announcement today - they will be offering “lightweight” versions of Office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - through the browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari will be supported. Users will be able to read and edit documents from the browser.
We had [...]

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By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: October 27, 2008
LOS ANGELES — Looking for growth in new markets where it is increasingly being bypassed, Microsoft said Monday that late next year it would begin offering a new “cloud” operating system that would manage the relationship between software inside the computer and on the Web, where [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 8, 2008
No, Microsoft is not getting into the car-wash business. But it is releasing “Touchless,” multitouch software from Microsoft Office Labs that uses a regular Web camera and everyday objects as input. You can think of this as a low-end version of its Touchwall technology, which uses more [...]

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October 2, 2008 - 3:45 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder

I’m not a big fan of reaching for conclusions and unjustified criticism when it comes to tech journalism, because I see it way too often. But although I have no solid data to confirm it, I can’t help the feeling that Steve Ballmer’s announcement of [...]

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by Steve Gillmor on September 29, 2008
This week two giants spoke to the technology wave known as cloud computing. Larry Ellison called it a new label on what everyone is doing already. He acknowledged he was going along with it to keep his marketing and sales guys happy, but basically he called bullshit [...]

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By Joel Hruska  | Published: September 29, 2008 - 09:20PM CT
Microsoft and Washington State officials announced a new partnership today aimed at fighting scareware in general and one specific vendor in particular. Today isn’t such a good day for one James Reed McCreary IV, of The Woodlands, Texas. Mr. McCreary is the sole [...]

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eptember 23, 2008 - 8:58 pm PDT - by Steven Hodson 6 Comments

With each successive release of the Windows operating system it has gotten bigger and bigger. While it doesn’t help that it has to keep supporting so much legacy stuff from previous versions it has also suffered from more [...]

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eptember 17, 2008 - 12:13 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski Add a Comment

In late June, Microsoft was said to be prepping an acquisition of the semantic search startup Powerset. On August 1st, the two were officially bound. Forward to today, and we see Powerset deliver a short memo noting [...]