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Rick Rashid has been the head of Microsoft Research (MSR) ever since he founded the organisation 15 years ago, in September 1991. The senior vice-president, head of Microsoft Research, is a proud "daddy" for the 800-odd researchers who work in five different research labs in six different...

"Go beyond what you learn in text books!" That is is Chitra Sood's advice to youngsters keen to join the information technology sector. The staffing director of Microsoft India Development Centre, Sood was in Chennai to make a note of the technical innovations by students from various colleges...

October 02, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp. amped up its antipiracy campaign today, adding a program that targets large customers that need to "get legal" after being fingered for using counterfeit or illegally-applied volume licenses. The program, dubbed Get Genuine Windows Agreement...

Microsoft will now allow Windows XP to live for five more months. Earlier it was announced that Windows XP sales shall be discontinues after January 2008 by OEM's and Retailers. However the deadline has now been extended till June. Apparently poor sales (and performance and compatibility...

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table. In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computer users tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and the result was 65,535, Excel would...

Not too long ago Windows XP was preferred over Vista for 2008 Beijing Olympics due to concerns over the stability and maturity of the new platform and now as a final blow Windows users worldwide have the option to Officially Downgrade to WIndows XP. Apparently it is cleared in the license terms...

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Microsoft Settles a Dispute Over a Feature in Its Browser WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (Bloomberg News) — Microsoft said Thursday that it had settled an eight-year patent dispute that resulted in a $521 million jury verdict against it. Terms of the accord were not disclosed. The dispute centered on a...

Microsoft closes $6B buyout of aQuantive SEATTLE - In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business. "Our goal is to be No. 1 or No. 2,"...

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Microsoft Corp said on Thursday said it would take a more than USD 1 billion charge to fix "an unacceptable number of repairs" to its Xbox 360 video game consoles and had missed shipment targets for the end of June. Microsoft is under pressure with mounting complaints about Xbox 360 failures on...

Microsoft's Windows Vista had a date with some of the world's smartest hackers.It used the spotlight of the Black Hat security conference in august to show off some of the key security features and functionality being fitted into Vista. At its conference booth, Microsoft handed out preliminary...

Microsoft has started investigating a security vulnerability which affects Vista, its newly launched operating system. Mike Reavey, operations manager at Microsoft’s Security Response Centre, revealed that Vista is vulnerable to a flaw that allows a malicious hacker to escalate user privileges...

Microsoft will mount a fresh legal challenge to the Eolas patent after being given the go-ahead to do so. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hear Microsoft's argument that it invented the software technology described by patent, not the University of California and researcher...

Ray Ozzie has a long and storied history of technological innovation, with accomplishments that include creating Lotus Notes and founding Groove Networks. But Ozzie may now be facing the most daunting challenge of his career: coordinating the work of Microsoft's various product groups to keep...

Seeking to make Office Open XML file formats as ubiquitous as possible, Microsoft (Quote) today said it is funding an open source translator project between China's Unified Office Format (UOF) and the Ecma Open XML file formats. The UOF translation tools, created in conjunction with China's...

Software giant Microsoft announced the biggest acquisition in its history by buying digital marketing firm aQuantive for $6 billion in an all-cash deal. "The advertising industry is evolving and growing at an incredible pace, moving increasingly toward online and IP-served platforms, which...

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would buy a Quantive Inc. for $6 billion, paying an 85 percent premium to snap up one of the last large independent companies in a consolidating Web advertising market. In the biggest acquisition ever made by the world's No. 1 software maker, Microsoft said it...

A year ago, the two companies were reportedly in talks about a merger, but those conversations were dismissed as rumors and speculation. Well, here's Microsoft and Yahoo 2.0. A pairing in the spirit of a superhero teamup could happen if the latest chatter about Yahoo and Microsoft proves...

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