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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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Microsoft yanks Vista SP1 update causing endless reboots Responding to reports of endlessly rebooting PCs that flooded support newsgroups last week, Microsoft said on Tuesday it had pulled an update designed to prep Windows Vista for Service Pack 1.Although the updat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft Tries to Streamline Volume Pricing The move, expected to be announced Tuesday, is another step in a series of changes intended to improve Microsoft’s product licensing terms and make them easier for companies to navigate. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Microsoft previews desktop search update Microsoft has released a preview of an update to its Windows desktop-search tool to clear out bugs and improve the performance of the current technology.Windows Search 4.0 is now available at the Microsoft Downl Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised "greater transparency" in its development and business practices, outlining a new strategy to provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols for some of its major software products, i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft confesses to posting a flawed update Microsoft Corp. re-released one of its Aug. 11 security updates yesterday, explaining that it had posted an incomplete version to its own download center last week.The admission was the third time in the past tw Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft warns users of coming update to Windows Update Microsoft has announced it will upgrade Windows' update mechanism later this month, a warning that comes nearly a year after the company issued a similar upgrade without informing users.Last September, reports o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Windows XP SP3 omits critical security update Microsoft Tuesday confirmed that Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) omits a critical security update issued by the company in November 2006.The company acknowledged the omission while attempting to clarify the impa Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Google beefs up Mini search appliance for SMBs Google's Mini search appliance for small and midsize businesses has grown a new set of capabilities for crawling and categorizing documents, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday."Almost all employees sto Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: Smarter IDs needed for Net gains Microsoft's chief security strategists are asking for help.The massive software vendor is working harder than ever to do its part to improve online security, but the company cannot solve all the electronic world Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft cuts retail Vista prices Microsoft on Thursday said it plans to slash prices for retail copies of Windows Vista up to almost 50 percent for certain editions in poorer countries, in order to boost sales that one analyst said have failed to meet expectations. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: eBay lowers fees and tightens seller standards eBay unveiled changes to its online marketplace Tuesday that the company characterizes as sweeping and historic and that are aimed at boosting sales by making the shopping experience simpler and safer.The change Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Spammers ramp up siege on Google's Blogger via bots Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of a security system intended to stop mass account registrations, according to security vendor Websense. 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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Dell, Intel cut out Microsoft Dell, Intel, and their partners announced this week new technologies that represent major leaps forward for mobility. The companies seem to have discovered the secret to making such bold leaps: Cut Microsoft out of the deal. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: No change in Windows XP plan despite Ballmer comment Comments by Steve Ballmer at a press conference in Europe on Thursday have led to speculation that Microsoft is reconsidering its June 30 deadline to stop selling most new Windows XP licenses . A spokeswoman from Microsoft's public relations firm said Thursday that t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft says it would deal with new Yahoo board In a statement Monday, Microsoft confirmed that it would be interested in resuming talks with Yahoo with a new board of directors, both to buy the search business or the entire company.Billionaire investor Carl Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: FCC hearing weighs net neutrality Advocates on both sides of the net neutrality debate descended on Harvard Law School Monday for a U.S. FCC hearing that multiple speakers suggested was crucial to the Internet's future.Members of the FCC, along Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Icahn blasts Yahoo again Billionaire investor Carl Icahn continued his epistolary shouting match with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock on Monday with a letter in which he urges Bostock to justify his director compensation by releasing his time sheets and accuses him of purposefully not answering qu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft merger rumor prompts Yahoo trading Yahoo's stock is trading more heavily than usual on speculation that the company is again holding acquisition talks with Microsoft.Citing anonymous sources within both companies, technology blog TechCrunch repor Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |