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Kurt Mackie
Microsoft's bid to buy Skype approved
The Federal Trade Commission approved Microsoft's bid to buy Skype for an estimated $8.5 billion.
- By Kurt Mackie
DOJ approval for Google's ITA purchase conditional
The U.S. Department of Justice announced April 8 that it conditionally approved Google's acquisition bid for ITA Software Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
Rival snags Microsoft GM
Salesforce.com has hired Microsoft GM Matt Miszewski as senior vice president for the global public sector.
- By Kurt Mackie
Google restructures top leadership roles
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will be stepping down from that position while continuing to serve the company as executive chairman.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft names next-gen Dynamics AX ERP solution
Microsoft announced the formal product name of its next-generation Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning solution at the Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
Ozzie lays out 'post-PC world'
Ray Ozzie, renown for jumpstarting Microsoft's move to the Internet cloud, described a new vision for the company in a "post-PC world."
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft, Salesforce settle patent dispute
Microsoft and Salesforce.com have reached an out-of-court settlement concerning alleged patent violations. Agreement includes undisclosed 'compensation' for Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
Windows 8 details may have been leaked
Slides purporting to show Windows 8 features, release date, have emerged on the Web.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft unveils 'Windows embedded handheld' efforts
Microsoft today described an operating system branding and restructuring effort aimed at the enterprise mobile devices market.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft should get a tablet partner, report says
Microsoft's Windows consumer empire is at stake if it doesn't quickly find a tablet device manufacturing partner.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft-Yahoo search deal gets regulatory approvals
Microsoft and Yahoo got approvals from U.S. and European regulators to proceed with their search-advertising business deal.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft will maintain its great firewall in China
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says his company will continue to comply with China's censorship rules, despite Google's recent suggestions that it might exit that market due to Chinese government censorship practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft CEO highlights two screens at CES keynote
To kick off the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer referred to filling "all of the screens of our lives," but his talk mostly centered on TV broadcasts, video-on-demand, and games running on televisions and Xbox 360 consoles, as well as PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
Windows 7 upgrade 'hacks' not legal, Microsoft suggests
Microsoft has been trying to clarify details on upgrading to Windows 7 for individual users, but it's been a bumpy ride at best.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft investigates Windows 7 upgrade troubles
The complaints started late last week in the Microsoft Answers forum for Windows 7. Users appear to be experiencing two distinct problems: Windows 7's installation process cutting short at 62 percent completion and endless rebooting.
- By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft appeals loss in patent infringement case
Microsoft's appeal essentially argues that a district court judge who held against it was incompetent as a gatekeeper and in striking the "delicate balance" needed in patent law disputes.
- By Kurt Mackie
Court ruling puts brakes on sales of Microsoft Word
Microsoft's loss in a patent dispute with Toronto-based i4i LP means that it will have to stop selling Microsoft Word in U.S. markets. The issue concerns the use of "custom XML" in Word in the Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suites.
- By Kurt Mackie
Survey: IT salaries getting pinched in 2009
The general economic downturn is leaving its mark on information technology salaries, according to an independent study.
- By Kurt Mackie