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Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
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» Will Bartz be Yahoo’s CEO a year from now? Unlikely as they need a media/ad leader in Armstrong’s mold going ahead.
» Is this how the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) homepage will look now?
» Will Yahoo get out of mobile search too? They have far better presence and carrier deals than MSFT, that’s for sure.
» Since [...]

Making his first public appearance since being hired to lead Microsoft’s online services division in January, Microsoft’s Qi Lu said the launch of the company’s new search engine—Bing—would provide “new energy” to the search industry. “This is a really good event for the industry because there will be more choices,” he told [...]

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Sure, Google’s dominance of search has been growing by the month, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) insists it has identified what would appear to be a glaring opening: It says its own research shows that people are actually often let down by the search engines they use. (That’s Microsoft’s way of saying that [...]

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Hoping for some Apple-like magic, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has announced plans to open its own chain of branded stores as it looks to catch up to its rivals. No word on which of its products—which include retail-friendly gaming console XBox and the Zune music player—would be on sale in these stores; also, [...]

Apple Inc. keeps pummeling Microsoft Corp. in its ads, and yadda yadda yadda, the world’s largest software maker plans to hire comedian Jerry Seinfeld for its new marketing campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported today.Continually painted by Apple and other rivals as uncool and unsafe, Microsoft plans to spend $300 million on a new series [...]

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Next week I’m leading the “Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft” panel at Mix07 in Vegas, my first Microsoft conference. Naturally, I’ve been pondering the topic so I don’t end up on stage with my pants around my ankles. The more I think about it, the more I think Microsoft loves open source—and [...]

When it was released, Vista included 30,000 drivers. They work with 1.7 million pieces of software. But many people are having problems finding drivers for their hardware. Without the drivers, the hardware won’t work with Vista.
Source: Komando.Com
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Are you hesitant to switch to a Macintosh because you don’t want to miss your favorite Windows applications? Now you have no excuses, with a new version of Parallels virtualization software offering better ease of use and new features.
With Parallels, Intel processor Mac computers can run Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, or other operating systems [...]