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Microsoft Research gives photo help, for a price Redmond's research arm has a new tool for creating photo collages, but unlike past products from the labs, consumers have to pay for AutoCollage. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Fifteen great Microsoft Office optimization tools What's the most popular application software in the world? Most likely, Microsoft Office. You use it, your colleagues use it, your relatives use it, and just about everyone you know uses it.You certainly aren't Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft bid caps turbulent week Microsoft's offer Friday to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and shares put a turbulent end to a heavy earnings week in which forecasts from Internet leaders worried IT investors.Internet leaders Google, Yah Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft tries again to improve volume pricing Microsoft has unveiled a new program that allows its larger customers to combine separate product licensing agreements under one master contract, which could help them to get bigger volume discounts.The move, an Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.CEO Steve Ballmer made the offer in a letter to Yahoo's board of di Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft security maturing fast One year ago, Microsoft was defending the quality of its products, battling with the world's largest security vendors over features in its next-generation platforms, and pitching the company's nascent promise as a provider of IT systems-defense tools at the annual RSA Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to unveil new licensing policies for virtual machines Virtualization industry observers expect Microsoft to eliminate a licensing restriction that has hampered the mobility of virtual servers, perhaps as soon as next week.Under current Microsoft rules, software run Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft and Powerset confirm deal Microsoft and Powerset confirmed Tuesday that Microsoft will purchase the search-engine startup. The news comes several days after a rumor about the deal circulated on the Web.[ See related video of Eric Knorr's Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft acquires desktop virtualization firm Kidaro Microsoft continues to step up its virtualization push, with the acquisition of desktop virtualization management software developer Kidaro.Without disclosing a purchase price or when the deal is expected to clo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's options, post-Yahoo Poor Steve Ballmer. Having yanked his offer to buy Yahoo, Microsoft Corp.'s CEO is left to run a $57 billion company that is on track for its annual orgy of profits and continues to dominate several software spheres. And he still gets to decide how -- or even if -- th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft bangs 'Apple tax' drum once again Microsoft on Monday again pushed its claim that consumers pay an "Apple tax" when they buy Mac hardware rather than PCs running the Windows operating system.In an e-mail to reporters Monday, Microsoft repeated t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Mundie: Google owes business to Microsoft Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie said Tuesday that competitor Google owes its business in part to Microsoft and that his company is not concerned about losing its position as an innovator in the technology market to the search and advertisi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft shows off collaborative search tools During an annual conference to display internal research, Microsoft demonstrated a project designed to help people collaborate on search.After downloading a small program, a SearchTogether user will see a sideba Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo Microsoft will most likely increase its initial $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, according to a Citigroup Investment Research analyst."We believe that a Yahoo sale to Microsoft -- at a price higher than the initial Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to buy data-warehouse appliance vendor Microsoft continues its shopping spree to bolster its SQL Server database platform to make it more suitable for large-scale enterprise deployments. On Thursday the company said it plans to buy DATAllegro, a privately held maker of data-warehouse appliances. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft amassing high-performance server software attack Microsoft has built a strategy around the planned early-November release of its high-performance computing server that it hopes will be the catalyst to deliver massive computing power for future applications.The Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Yang's move, Microsoft-Novell developments Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who co-founded the company, stepped aside this week to the surprise of no one who has followed the recent travails of the company. While that ship continued to list, the IETF debated what, if anything, to do about the problematic DNS bug that was Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's offer to Yahoo's board In a letter to Yahoo's board, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered to acquire the company for a per-share price of $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of Microsoft common stock -- a 62 percent premium above the Jan. 31, closing price of Yahoo -- and cited the broad rang Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Yahoo ends talks with Microsoft, nears Google deal Yahoo has ended its talks with Microsoft about a deal narrower in scope than a full acquisition, Yahoo revealed on Thursday. Instead, the company is nearing an agreement with Google, The Wall Street Journal repo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft pitches proactive enterprise support Microsoft has added a new level of technical support for enterprise customers that it says helps them draft a long-term road map to improve the reliability and quality of their IT networks.Premier Ultimate offer Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |