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Published by July 26th, 2008
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Microsoft said it’s opening up the popular console to games created by gamers using the company’s XNA Game Studio software. “We’re creating an opportunity for aspiring developers to start their careers on the world stage,” said Chris Satchell, chief technology officer at Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment unit, in a statement.
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Published by July 12th, 2008
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The free software advocate questions the effectiveness of the Microsoft giant’s philanthropy, defends free software, and fights the use of the word “piracy” in a British publication. Gates, the third-richest person in the world, retired in June. Stallman said in a recent BBC article that people should pay attention to “the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers,” instead of paying attention to the leadership of the software company.
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Published by July 5th, 2008
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John Foley of Technology Review writes, “I’ve had occasion to chat with Bill Gates a number of times over the years, and there’s often a point when something unexpected happens. He’s been brutally honest, occasionally evasive, and surreptitiously a nice guy. As Gates gets ready to ride off into the software sunset, here are a few anecdotes that stand out.”
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Published by June 21st, 2008
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Information Week’s tips on finding and weeding out system performance hogs, optimizing memory, and restraining Vista’s features will make your system soar. Soon after Windows Vista came out, many suggestions for tweaking the operating system to improve performance emerged. Unfortunately, most of those tweaks turned out to be pretty disappointing: they either provided the illusion of better performance but did nothing of substance, or they were rehashes of existing Windows XP tips that might note even be valid on Vista. Still, there are plenty of things that can be done to make Vista run better. Over the past several months I’ve kept an eye peeled as to what actually works, what doesn’t, and why. With less work than you might think, it’s entirely possible to have Vista running quite snappily.
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Neil J. Rubenking writes: “Microsoft Word is full of tools that can help you work faster and smarter—but only if you know about them. Here’s a list to remind you of just what Word can do for you.” The list includes tips on shrinking documents by one page, merging to email, comparing two documents, math autocorrect, and more.
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Published by June 1st, 2008
in search, books, collections and Microsoft.
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Microsoft last week announced that it will pull the plug on its book and scholarly article scan plans, Live Search Books and Live Search Academic, and that both sites will be taken down. “We recognize that this decision comes as disappointing news to our partners, the publishing and academic communities, and Live Search users,” reads a Microsoft blog post from Satya Nadella, Microsoft senior VP search, portal and advertising. “We believe the next generation of search is about the development of an underlying, sustainable business model for the search engine, consumer, and content partner.” Nadella said that books digitized under the programs would now be included in MSN search results.b
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Published by June 1st, 2008
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The British Library’s ongoing projects to make thousands of books and other resources available digitally won’t slow down significantly, despite the ending last week of a partnership with Microsoft, a senior library official said recently. Microsoft formed a partnership with the library in November 2005 to fund the scanning of up to 100,000 out-of-copyright 19th century books, or around 20 million pages. The scanning work will continue for a while longer until the last 40,000 books are finished, said Neil Fitzgerald, digitization project manager.
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Published by June 1st, 2008
in technology, Microsoft and software.
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Microsoft Corp. said recently that its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer unveiled the iPhone-like touch-screen feature at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference, calling it “just the smallest snippet” of the Windows 7 operating system slated for release in late 2009.
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Published by May 26th, 2008
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Microsoft will launch Worldwide Telescope, a tool for exploring images of the night sky, by the end of May, free to anyone who wants to use it, Microsoft’s chairman said recently. Worldwide Telescope is software that allows people to gaze at the universe through the data collected by telescopes all around the world — and above it: there’s even data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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Published by April 6th, 2008
in techniques, Microsoft and Windows.
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PC Magazine’s 2008 collection of utility software is all about tweaking, manipulating, and dominating the looks and functionality of Windows XP and Vista. These 91 tools provide all the help you need to control Windows. After the top five utilities, the products are arranged by file organization, appearance, compression and encryption, file transfer, disk utilities, backup, system monitors, tweakers, displays, remote access, start-up/shutdown, installers, recovery and shredders, virtual PCS, search, browser boosters, and widgets.
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Published by February 5th, 2008
in digital and Microsoft.
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Fresh off its recent agreement with Google, Columbia University announced this week that it has also entered into an agreement with Microsoft to digitize books from the Columbia University Libraries. Under the agreement, Microsoft will digitize portions of the Libraries’ public domain collections in American history, literature, and humanities, with “the specific areas to be decided mutually by Microsoft and Columbia.”
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One year after its retail launch, Windows Vista has developed a reputation as a source of frustration for some computer users, even as its sales have surged.
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Published by January 26th, 2008
in virtual worlds, research and Microsoft.
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The University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center has received an $850,000 grant from the European Science Initiative of Microsoft Research Inc. to study biodiversity changes in complex environments with a focus on Mexico’s cloud forest. In partnership with the national biodiversity commission in Mexico, the project will analyze the data, but it is also taking a meta approach to examine how to best combine a broad set of complex data for analysis. One answer is to design a virtual world to test the researchers’ predictions. “The virtual world will give us ways to test tools we have been developing for 10 years,” said Jorge Soberón, lead investigator for the project and senior scientist at KU’s Biodiversity Institute. “We want to create a very complex simulation, not just a beautiful envelope with nothing inside.”
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Bill Gates used his final Consumer Electronics Show keynote as Microsoft chairman to prognosticate on the “second digital decade” and show his human side via a hilarious farewell video. He predicted computer users would soon throw out the keyboard and mouse in favour of interacting with the PC using hand gestures, and envisioned a world where computers were built into the furniture and far easier to use. Gates has inaugurated the yearly Las Vegas gadget show, which opens on Monday, 10 times, but he intends to take a back seat at Microsoft come July to focus on philanthropy.
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Published by January 12th, 2008
in digital, Library of Congress and Microsoft.
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Microsoft will provide the technology that allows visitors to the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) to first take a virtual tour of historic documents and map out what exhibits they want to see, the two organizations recently announced. The project will include the Myloc.gov Web site, to be launched in April, linked to information kiosks at the LOC’s Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. Interactive galleries will allow visitors to the Myloc.gov site to view and sometimes interact with items such as a rough draft of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the Gutenberg Bible, and a 1507 map that first used the word “America.”
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2008 is going to be a whopper for Microsoft from a product release standpoint, with February’s three-pronged megalaunch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 looming large on the horizon. CRN takes a look ahead at some decisions and events that could potentially take place in and around Microsoft in the coming year.
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Published by December 9th, 2007
in Microsoft and OLPC.
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Microsoft Corp. will begin testing a version of Windows XP in January on the ”$100 laptop” from One Laptop Per Child. It has taken nearly a year of engineering to get the bulky operating system to run on the low-cost XO computer, Microsoft said. The XO uses flash memory instead of a hard drive and offers less storage space than most mainstream PCs.
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Microsoft proposes a simple solution to the problem of information overload: lists. There are dozens of online tools for organizing information: wikis, social-bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, and RSS feed readers, among other things. Researchers at Microsoft’s Live Labs, an incubator for new Internet-related technologies founded in 2006, hope that a tool called Listas will distinguish itself by being more general than all the others. Listas launched at the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco and is available for preview online.
Listas is, put simply, about making lists. Users can make their own lists, by either typing in original content or taking clippings from Web pages, or they can read or edit public lists.
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Published by November 3rd, 2007
in digital and Microsoft.
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Yale University officials announced that they have partnered with Microsoft and Kirtas technology to scan and host up to 100,000 unique volumes held by the Yale University Libraries. Under the plan, Yale librarians will work with Microsoft to identify which books and documents will be chosen from Yale’s approximately 13 million volumes, focusing on out-of-copyright English-language books. Although the value of the agreement was not released, a Kirtas official told reporters it would be a multi-million dollar deal in the first year alone.
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Published by November 3rd, 2007
in economics and Microsoft.
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Microsoft is doing its part to drive the growth and the economic contribution of the local information technology industry. Having set foot in Malaysia 15 years ago, the software giant has been instrumental in fostering the local software economy, as it believes intellectual property (IP) will become the future currency to spur the nation’s growth. Microsoft Asia-Pacific president Emilio Umeoka said that for Malaysia to be a competitive knowledge-based economy, it would need to transform into a net exporter of IP.
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Published by October 27th, 2007
in virtual worlds and Microsoft.
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Microsoft Corp. has been exploring the business of virtual worlds and social networking for months, and could launch its own entry into the realm of “Second Life” or “Ultima Online” within a year, a top Microsoft executive said. “By next year, you’ll probably know more about why I’m up here,” Daniel Schiappa, general manager of strategy for Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division told attendees at a virtual worlds conference in San Diego
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Published by September 29th, 2007
in search, Google and Microsoft.
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Microsoft Corp. has introduced a redesign of its search engine joining a wave of Web sites that have revamped their results pages to get users the information they want more quickly. The changes are Microsoft’s latest attempt to gain ground on Mountain View’s Google Inc., which dominates the search industry despite major investments by a raft of competitors.
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