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The Xbox Live online game service has had long run, but Microsoft announced today that it will discontinue the service, which is for the original Xbox console launched back in 2001.
The service will be shut down by April 15, according to an open letter posted by Xbox [...]
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According to Net Applications’ January stats for browser usage, Microsoft’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, is now the world’s most popular brand. But there’s a downside | Only one in four of the browsers counted by Net Applications are IE8. For Microsoft, 25 percent market share is practically failure. (Bing has only [...]
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Update: As of 3:00 PM Pacific time on Sunday, MobileMe is back online for me, but Apple’s MobileMe status page still lists several MobileMe services as being down.
Around 1:00 PM Pacific time on Sunday, Apple’s MobileMe suite of cloud applications stopped working for [...]
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Microsoft took another blow today in its legal battle over Microsoft Word. A federal appeals court upheld a ruling against the software giant, stating that Word violates a patent owned by Toronto-based company i4i. The court ordered Microsoft to stop selling versions of Word containing the offending [...]
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MSI has upgraded its Wind U123. The new Wind U123 comes with Windows 7 Starter Edition. Incidentally, the MSI Wind U123 is the first MSI laptop to run Windows 7. Other specs are more or less the same.
The [...]
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Chances are you’ve never heard of upstate New York startup Apprenda and their product, SaaSGrid. The company’s clients aren’t home consumers, they’re other IT companies like UVision Consulting and Serenity Software that build large-scale business apps. But a couple of weeks ago, Apprenda landed a $5M investment [...]
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Chances are you’ve never heard of upstate New York startup Apprenda and their product, SaaSGrid. The company’s clients aren’t home consumers, they’re other IT companies like UVision Consulting and Serenity Software that build large-scale business apps. But a couple of weeks ago, Apprenda landed a $5M investment [...]
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Facebook handed Google a bit of a weaker deal than it gave to Microsoft.
As part of its new real-time search features, the search giant gets to index status updates to Facebook Pages, which are mainly commercially-oriented. In contrast, Microsoft, an investor [...]
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Facebook handed Google a bit of a weaker deal than it gave to Microsoft.
The search giant gets status updates to pages, which are primarily commercially-oriented. In contrast, Microsoft, an investor in Facebook, gets public status updates to profiles for its Bing [...]
