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2 hrs ago | The Register

Citrix boosts seat count for XenDesktop

How many virtual desktops can you support on a server using virtual desktop infrastructure technology? Not enough for people to do it.

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Related Topix: Citrix Systems, Software, CPU, Science / Technology

6 hrs ago | Mac 911 Weblog

The Macalope Weekly: Myths, fantasies and other statistics

Look, it's no business of the Macalope's what you have to tell yourself to get through the dark of night.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Software, iPhone, Steve Jobs, Laptops/Notebooks

10 hrs ago | Darknet

Windows 7 UAC Vulnerable - User Mode Program Can Disable User Access Control

It seems like Windows 7 is already creating some controversy even though it's still in BETA.

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Fri Feb 06, 2009

Pocket PC Thoughts

Microsoft "My Phone" Service Announced Early

Skybox. Scott Rockfeld, Director in the Windows Mobile group at Microsoft, gave this public statement today: "Today, Microsoft's My Phone Web site went live prior to its scheduled debut.

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Related Topix: Cellphones

Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog

Study: Microsoft's Seinfeld ads flopped

With Microsoft set to unleash the next wave of its Windows ad campaign this week-end, it's worth taking stock of how the two previous parts of the campaign performed.

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Related Topix: Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld, Advertising

InformationWeek

Microsoft Licensing Deal Grants Access To Linux Printers

Hoping to give their respective research efforts a shot of adrenaline, Microsoft and Brother Industries have agreed to a broad patent licensing deal that gives Microsoft access to Brother's embedded Linux ...

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Software

GigaOM

Microsoft Smartphone Confirmed?

It seems those rumors might be true. Doug Freedman, chip analyst with research firm Broadpoint AmTech, wrote in a note to his clients this morning : we have been able to identify NVDA's second handset design ...

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Semiconductors, NVIDIA, Electronics, CPU

Blah Blah Blog [Ryan Rogers]

SAP on SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008

We are very proud to announce that SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 are now officially a supported solution for SAP.

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Thu Feb 05, 2009

CRN

Gates Warns Of Tough Economic Outlook

By Reuters 4:26 PM EST Wed. Feb. 04, 2009 Microsoft founder Bill Gates foresees another three to four "very tough" years for a U.S. economy that shrank at its fastest pace since 1982 in the fourth quarter.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Bill Gates

PC World

MS Launches Premium Support Service, Starting at $200,000

Microsoft announced Premier Mission Critical Support Tuesday. The service is aimed at enterprise IT shops which already license Microsoft's server and database products.

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ComputerWorld

Microsoft revs up 'Fix it' support tool

Microsoft Corp. has ramped up a new Windows support assistant nearly three months after it quietly released the automatic repair and configuration tool.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software

WFAA-TV Dallas

Letter purportedly from ex-Dallas Cowboy Bob Hayes faces more scrutiny

Bob Hayes' family members have questioned the authenticity of the letter Lucille Hester read to a national TV audience Saturday by pointing out misspellings and a "Bob Hayes" signature they say is clearly ...

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

The Sligo Champion

Is Facebook just a passing fad?

After five years of astonishing success, the youngest self-made billionaire in history is fighting off pretenders to ensure the future remains Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, attends the Digital Life ...

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Related Topix: Social Software

TMCnet

Dialogic Corporation Expands Dialogic 4000 Media Gateway Series Product Line

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 Parsippany, NJ, February 4, 2009 i 1 2 Dialogic Corporation , a global provider of world-class products and technologies for media and signal processing, ...

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Startups, Public Relations, Parsippany, NJ, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

Wed Feb 04, 2009

CNET News.com

Motorola: Windows Mobile 7 will arrive in 2010

Updated at 1:15 p.m. PST with Microsoft comment and additional context. When Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha said Tuesday that his company's phones would eventually carry Windows Mobile 7, he let on more than he ...

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Software, iPhone

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Gates releases mosquitoes on crowd

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has released a swarm of mosquitoes into an audience at a technology and design conference in California.

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Related Topix: Bill Gates, Microsoft, Software, Medicine, Malaria, Health, Los Angeles Metro, Long Beach, CA

CIOL

Microsoft India unveils CLIP for developers

CLIP is a tool that uses a tooltip caption to display translations for user interface items in Visual Studio 2008 BANGALORE, INDIA: Microsoft today unveiled set of customized language computing solutions to the ...

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Related Topix: World News, India, Science, Computer Science, Keyboards

HeraldTribune.com

In Campaign Wars, Apple Still Has Microsofta s Number

Published: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 5:47 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 5:47 a.m. TWENTY-FIVE years ago, Apple hurled a legendary marketing sledgehammer at I.B.M. personal computers ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Startups, Computers, Apple Computer, Microsoft, Software

Telegraph.co.uk

Europe and Canada warn US over 'Buy America' clause

The European Union and Canada have warned that the "Buy America" clause in President Barack Obama's $900bn fiscal stimulus package is in danger of fostering unwanted and damaging US protectionism.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Microsoft, Startups, Software

KHQ-TV Spokane

Microsoft: Layoffs for some, visas for others

Even as the economy hemorrhages jobs, many employers continue to advocate for fewer restrictions on importing foreign workers to fill specialized jobs.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Software, Outsourcing

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