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  • Google upbeat over court ruling

    Tuesday's preliminary court ruling in the battle over Dr Kai-Fu Lee has been welcomed by Google.

  • Novice PC users more likely to embrace Linux

    Linux advocates hoping to convert Windows users to the open source operating system are more likely to succeed with technophobes and very inexperienced computer users than with Windows power users.

  • Microsoft flexes its muscles with Office

    Microsoft plans to muscle into two markets next year, work flow and enterprise content management, using its time-tested techniques of exploiting its desktop dominance and appealing to developers.

  • Google's ex-Microsoft exec can recruit in China

    A former Microsoft executive can immediately begin recruiting staff for a Google development centre in China, rather than waiting until after a January trial, a Washington state judge ruled on Tuesday.

  • Microsoft commits to XML docs for long term

    Responding to a request from the European Union to improve data interoperability, Microsoft has committed in perpetuity to offering a royalty-free license of Office-related XML document formats.

  • Microsoft easing into antivirus efforts

    Microsoft is trying to dampen speculation that it will make a major acquisition in the antivirus market.

  • Microsoft delays SP2 auto update

    Microsoft is delaying distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 2 via its Automatic Update service by at least nine days in order to give corporate customers more time to temporarily block automatic downloading of SP2 by their employees.

  • Coalition of the unwilling

    The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.

  • Microsoft creating Windows for supercomputers

    Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold.

  • MS and IBM get caring and sharing

    Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.

  • Gates' plea: Keep Windows whole

    Microsoft's chairman argues that the proposed remedies would set the industry back to pre-PC days.

  • How nanotechnology can change the world

    Regenerating nerve tissues, implanting chips in the brain and saving the planet were all on the menu at a recent nanotechnology conference.

  • Privacy plan tied to XML

    More than 20 vendors, ranging from net.Genesis Corp. and Vignette Corp. to IBM, Siebel Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp., are trying to offer a technical solution to consumer online privacy problems.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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