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Microsoft layoffs hit again
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
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Microsoft said that its quarterly earnings beat analysts’ expectations and its newest operating system, Windows 7 , sprinted out of the gate . This drove up stock prices and lead to thoughts that maybe the worst was behind them. But today we’re reminded...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft India, Microsoft Completes Layoffs, job cut, software giant, microsoft cut, giant microsoft, reduction plan, reduce cost
'Magical day for Microsoft' in Scottsdale
Scottsdale :: AZ :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Microsoft Corp. opened its first retail store on Thursday to hundreds of people who waited as long as 12 hours to get freebies and to see if the place is as cool as it was hyped to be. Eager customers cheered as a giant white curtain dropped from the...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., retailing store, software giant, Scottsdale, Arizona
Microsoft welcomes new vista with Windows 7
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility THE mighty Microsoft marketing machine switched itself to humble mode for the Windows 7 launch today, crediting millions of beta testers with helping its development and even poking fun at the previous Windows Vista product. Microsoft Australia managing...
Tags: Microsoft Releases Windows, Microsoft Kicks Off Windows, Microsoft Corp., Australia, microsoft hopes, Sydney, software giant, retail store, older pcs
Microsoft's Ballmer pitches Windows 7 in Toronto
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Bell Canada to charge smaller internet service providers based on how much their customers download each month. Fossil bones housed at a Los Angeles museum belong to the smallest dinosaur discovered in North America, scientists said Tuesday. After bogging...
Tags: Microsoft Corp, Microsoft CEO, oper systems, Steve Ballmer, Toronto, Mr. Ballmer, software giant, windows vista, ceo steve
EU prepares to settle Microsoft case
Brussels :: Belgium | 2 months ago
Credibility Windows operating system installed on most of the world's desktop computers. Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith said the EU announcement was "a big step" toward ending its antitrust woes in Europe and would allow the company to focus on European regulatory...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Settle Microsoft, The European Commission, European Union, web browser, software giant, market test, test microsoft, windows users, preliminary view
Microsoft sorry for race-swap gaffe
Warsaw :: Poland | 3 months ago
Credibility Software giant Microsoft has issued an apology after it emerged that the company's Polish arm had altered a promotional image to change the race of one of the people pictured...The image began circulating online on Tuesday and after being alerted to the...
Tags: Microsoft, black man, white man, giant microsoft, software giant, microsoft apologized, Asian, Poland
Justice Clears Oracle-Sun Deal
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Department of Justice have cleared its $7.4 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., removing a major hurdle for the transaction. Oracle, which makes databases and other software for large corporations, has said it hopes to close the deal this summer.
Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Oracle Sun, Oracle Photograph, US Justice Department, U.S. Department of Justice, European Commission, billion deal, sun deal, software giant
Publicis to buy Microsoft unit
Paris :: France | 4 months ago
Credibility Publicis Groupe SA said Sunday that it has agreed to buy Microsoft Corp.'s digital-marketing unit Razorfish for $530 million. Terms of the deal call for Publicis /quotes/comstock/11i!publf ( 35.38 , -1.00 , -2.75% ) /quotes/comstock/23r!ppub ( FR:PUB...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Publicis Groupe SA, buy microsoft, ad agency, digital advertising, Razorfish, online advertising, buy razorfish, software giant, joint statement
Microsoft profits plunge by a third
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Microsoft posted disappointing results for its fourth quarter with profits and revenue slumping sharply. Weak sales of computers and servers saw its profits drop by a third in the most recent quarter, completing a fiscal year in which the software maker's...
Tags: Blamestorming Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Rowe Price Group Inc., share price, software giant, T. Rowe Price, profits fell
Microsoft may deliver prompts for rival browsers
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The US software giant said it still plans to release its next-generation operating system worldwide on October 22, but that customers in Europe will have to install web browsers of their choice. "We're committed to making Windows 7 available in Europe...
Tags: European Commission, European Union, Microsoft Corp., web browser, operating systems, deputy generation, microsoft deputy, software giant, install web, generation operating
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