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  • Microsoft swallows aQuantive

    Microsoft is set to challenge Google in the online ad world with the sealing of its US$6 billion takeover of Internet advertising firm aQuantive.

  • Microsoft to launch Windows Live installer beta

    Microsoft is touting an addition to its Windows Live offering that will download and install software allowing consumers to connect to multiple online services.

  • Microsoft shifts server unit into business division

    Microsoft on Friday said it is shifting its server and tools unit, currently grouped with desktop Windows and Microsoft's ad business, into the unit that houses Office and other business software.

  • Here is your Vista, says Microsoft

    Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer might not have made the trip Down Under, but Microsoft stressed Australians played a significant role in designing the new Windows Vista operating system at its launch in Sydney today.

  • Microsoft puts key security under Windows umbrella

    As part of its ongoing reorganisation, Microsoft on Thursday in the US moved more responsibility for its security efforts into its Windows unit.

  • Microsoft Canada leaks Vista pricing

    Microsoft on Monday briefly posted pricing for Windows Vista on its Canadian Web site, giving an eye into what the company will charge for the new operating system.

  • Bill Gates to step down from full-time role

    Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at the company.

  • Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confab

    At this year's Microsoft conference for Windows hardware experts, the software giant will be talking about a lot more than the operating system.

  • Microsoft: Set your systems for Vista

    Microsoft is still working to finish Windows Vista, but the company wants consumers to "Get Ready" now.

  • Clouds over Redmond

    The latest delay for Windows Vista highlights a mounting challenge for Microsoft -- finding a way to update its most important product on any kind of reasonable schedule.

  • Microsoft gives Sinofsky reins to Windows

    Microsoft has formally named Steve Sinofsky as head of its Windows division, days after announcing a delay in delivering the Vista update to the operating system.

  • Microsoft to shake up Windows leadership

    Microsoft is planning a management shake-up in its Windows division and will appoint Steve Sinofsky, currently head of the company's Office division, to oversee Windows development, according to a source close to the company.

  • Microsoft merges Exchange, corporate IM units

    Microsoft said on Monday that it is combining its Exchange e-mail server unit with the group that handles corporate instant messaging, the latest in a series of organisational changes at the world's largest software maker.

  • Gates, Ballmer top US$1 million in pay

    Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer have finally entered the millionaire's club.

  • Allchin legacy seen in Windows

    Jim Allchin, to some Microsoft's biggest geek after Bill Gates, is retiring at the end of 2006. His legacy: Windows on almost every desktop.

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