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(Newser) - Microsoft and Verizon are in talks to launch a smartphone on the carrier’s network early next year, the Wall Street Journal reports. The phone would likely run on a souped-up version of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system, and have access to Windows Marketplace, its version of Apple’s... More »

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Microsoft • wireless • Verizon • iPhone • Apple • smartphones • Windows Mobile • Windows Marketplace • competitor • Droid phones • Verizon Droid price • Verizon Droid review

 Bill Gates Senior:  
 Bill Junior Was a Brat 

Bill Sr. recounts raising his 'smart-ass' son

Apr 25, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Gates stopped being a kid right about age 11, his father tells Wall Street Journal. And then he turned into a royal pain, at least for a while. In the most famous bit of family lore, Bill Gates Sr. says he had to chuck a glass of cold water... More »

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Microsoft • Bill Gates • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • childhood

(AP) - Microsoft Corp. said today its quarterly revenue fell from the previous year for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company, while its profit dived 32 percent. The shortfall illustrated the toll the recession has taken on the world's largest software maker, even though it remains one... More »

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Microsoft • software • corporate earnings • tech industry

(Newser) - Comic Sans is a lighthearted font, easy to read and very popular. Too popular, if you believe its legions of detractors. Like many other comics-related entities, it even has a sworn enemy—the 10-year-old Ban Comic Sans movement, which compares misuse of the typeface "to showing up for a... More »

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Microsoft • design • font • typeface • Comic Sans • graphic design • typography

Tech Leaders Unite Against Microsoft

Nokia, IBM, Oracle join EU antitrust case over Explorer's dominance

Apr 15, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A technology consortium whose members include IBM, Nokia, and Oracle has joined the European Commission’s antitrust case against Microsoft, the Financial Times reports. The consortium, Ecis, joins Google and the Mozilla Foundation in accusing Microsoft of using Windows to distort the web browser market in favor of Internet Explorer.... More »

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Google • Microsoft • European Union • web browser • Windows • Internet Explorer • antitrust • Mozilla • Opera • European Commission

ANALYSIS

 Microsoft 
 to Apple: 
 Bring It On 


Apr 11, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - With its snazzy ads and iPhone groupies, Apple has been winning the Mac vs. PC wars, but Microsoft is ready to strike back, Peter Burrows writes in BusinessWeek. Positioning itself as a cheaper alternative, the company has launched its own slate of “uncharacteristically cool” TV ads and is offering... More »

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Microsoft • iPhone • Apple • Linux • tv ads • consumers

Microsoft, Yahoo Discuss Ad Partnership

Takeover apparently
off the table in
informal negotiations

Apr 10, 09 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft and Yahoo have returned to the bargaining table, but their latest discussions concern advertising sales, the Wall Street Journal reports. The advanced, though informal, negotiations have included both firms' CEOs but likely don’t involve talk of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo’s search business, which it tried to do last... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • search advertising

(Newser) - Fear of computer viruses is now one of the major reasons people are getting them in the first place, Reuters reports. According to Microsoft, seven of the 25 top threats come in the form of fake security programs, which users terrified of malware like Conficker are installing indiscriminately. Losing market... More »

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Microsoft • computer virus • Symantec • Internet security • malware • McAfee • Conficker • bogus

ANALYSIS

R&D Dollars Flow Even as Revenues Slump

Firms see innovation as key to post- recession success

Apr 6, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Revenues may be plummeting, but US companies spent as much on research and development in 2008’s fourth quarter as they did in 2007's, the Wall Street Journal reports. Analysts point to products like the iPod, introduced during the last recession, as proof that continued R&D outlay can lead... More »

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China • Microsoft • India • Apple • iPod • innovation • Motorola • research and development • financial crisis

PRODUCT REVIEW

 Stands That Keep Your 
 Lap—and Laptop—Cool 


Apr 1, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Laptops may be convenient, but the heat they produce often makes them uncomfortable to use where their name suggests you should. Enter the cooling tray, which usually comes equipped with a USB-powered fan to keep your legs from getting scorched. Katherine Boehret runs down a few choices in the More »

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Microsoft • laptop • consumer electronics • tech review • Logitech • Belkin • Kensington

Worm Set to Unleash Massive April Fool's Prank

Malware experts race against time to limit the program's damage

Mar 24, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Malware experts are racing to find the authors of the Conficker C worm and limit the damage it seems poised to do beginning April Fool’s Day, CNN reports. Conficker C, the bug’s third iteration since late 2008, has infected between 5 and 10 million computers but so far... More »

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Microsoft • software • computer virus • computer security • malware • botnet • botnets • Conficker

tech review

 New IE8 Promising 
 But Slow: Mossberg 

While some features are unmatched, slow page loads hinder updated browser

Mar 19, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Internet Explorer 8 becomes available at noon, but don’t go ditching your current browser just yet, writes Walter S. Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal. Microsoft's latest is "a big improvement over its predecessor, IE7, and a much closer competitor to its main rival, Mozilla's Firefox"—but... More »

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Microsoft • Walt Mossberg • web browser • Internet Explorer • Safari • Firefox • Web browsing • Google Chrome

MARKETS

 Gains Fizzle; Dow Down 7 

Tech leads declines, Dow falls from triple-digit gain

Mar 16, 09 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks swung back to losses as optimism from last week’s rally faded today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Investors treated last week’s announcements that many troubled financial institutions ran operating profits in the first two months of 2009—ignoring “toxic securities” on their balance sheets—with skepticism.... More »

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Microsoft • Citigroup • Intel • Dow Jones • Nasdaq • S&P 500 • financial crisis • toxic assets

 Melinda Keen on iPhone; 
 Bill Says No 

Apple's wares illegal in Gates household

Mar 3, 09 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Apple products are banned in the Gates home, the New York Post reports—but Melinda “wouldn’t mind” picking up an iPhone, she told Vogue. There isn’t much “on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our... More »

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Microsoft • Bill Gates • iPhone • Apple • iPod • consumer electronics • gadget • Melinda Gates

Microsoft U-Turns on Severance Clawback

Company tells laid-off workers they can keep severance overpayments after all

Feb 24, 09 3:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Microsoft is moving to stem a flood of bad publicity by letting laid-off workers who accidentally got too much severance pay keep the extra cash, TechCrunch reports. The workers, who lost their jobs last month in Microsoft's first-ever mass layoffs, contacted news media after receiving letters from the company asking... More »

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Microsoft • layoffs • mistake • severance pay

 Microsoft 
 Muscles Into 
 Cell Market 
 With New OS 

Firm will offer Windows Mobile on 50 smartphones

Feb 16, 09 5:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Microsoft is pushing deeper into the cellphone market with a deal to put a new operating system on 50 LG smartphones, the New York Times reports. The company unveiled a more user-friendly OS—"We were dinged for not having a friendly consumer interface," an exec says—and... More »

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Microsoft • cell phones • software • smartphones • operating system • LG Electronics • mobile devices • mobile phones

Guess Who's Taking On
the Apple Store?

Microsoft hires Wal-Mart guru
for new retail effort

Feb 13, 09 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Microsoft has hired a former Wal-Mart exec to help the company open a chain of retail stores—a new strategy in its battle with Apple. The move is the latest sign of upheaval at Redmond, reports the Financial Times, and represents a change in approach. "To open their own... More »

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retail • Microsoft • Apple • Microsoft Windows • Xbox 360

(Newser) - Microsoft has offered a $250,000 bounty for the creators of the dreaded Conficker worm, which has infected 10 million computers worldwide, PC Magazine reports. The software giant is working with security firms and domain name administrator ICANN to find the culprits, whose virus exploits a vulnerability in Windows.... More »

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Microsoft • computer virus • ICANN • cybercrime • reward • Conficker • bounty

Gates Lets Mosquitoes Fly at Audience

Stunt underscores malaria threat shouldn't be for 'only poor people'

Feb 5, 09 8:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Bill Gates had the audience buzzing yesterday as he released a jar of mosquitoes at the TED2009 conference in California during a presentation on eradicating malaria, reports MSNBC. The bugs were not carrying the disease. "Not only poor people should experience this," Gates explained, according to a witness... More »

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Microsoft • Bill Gates • malaria • Facebook • mosquito • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Twitter • TED2009

 Zune Sales Plummeting 

Is mp3 gizmo doomed?

Jan 24, 09 11:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Is the Zune on its last legs? Buried in Microsoft’s terrible earnings report yesterday was news that revenue from the MP3 player plummeted $100 million compared to last year, or 54%, “reflecting a decrease in device sales.” Microsoft can’t just blame the economy, either; sales of... More »

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Microsoft • iPod • mp3 • Zune

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