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KOffice 1.5 releasedApr 11, 2006 - in News
The KDE Project today announced the latest version of its open-source office suite. KOffice 1.5 now uses the Oasis Open Document format as the default file format.
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Microsoft releases updated Direct3D 10 tech previewApr 11, 2006 - in News
Game developers on Tuesday received an updated set of graphics APIs for games running under Windows Vista and the next version of Microsoft multimedia driver DirectX. The April DirectX SDK comes with a v.10 High Level Shading Language (HLSL) compiler and more details on how to use Direct3D 10
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Internet tops 80 million websitesApr 7, 2006 - in News
According to Netcraft's most recent web server survey, the amount of hostnames on the Internet has doubled within the past three years.
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Microsoft's MSN Search restored after hours-long outageApr 7, 2006 - in News
Microsoft's MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours Thursday morning, and the company couldn't immediately say what caused the problem.
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Sony likely to price Playstation 3 above $500Apr 6, 2006 - in News
George Fornay, president of Sony computer Entertainment Europe, provided the first credible information on a possible price of Sony's next-generation game console. According to media reports, Fornay predicted a price range of 500 to 600 Euro, which could mean a price of at least $500 and as much as $750 for US consumers.
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Nvidia introduces dual-analog TV tunerApr 6, 2006 - in News
Nvidia on April 5 introduced its Nvidia DualTV tuner, a TV tuner for PCs that offers two TV tuners on a single card with comprehensive personal video recording functionality, unique MediaSqueeze disk space saving technology, and support for the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) operating system.
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Microsoft founding programmer to head to International Space StationApr 3, 2006 - in News
The Russian news agency Novosti has confirmed that Charles Simonyi, the retired Microsoft programmer who designed the word processing engine for the original Microsoft Word, and whose original concept for Multiplan paved the way for all multitasking business software to follow, will be the fourth tourist to head to space on board the International Space Station.
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Microsoft reports breakthrough in EU proceedingsMar 31, 2006 - in News
Reuters has reported minutes ago that Microsoft's chief legal counsel, Brad Smith, left Friday's meeting with European Commission members apparently enthused, stating, "I believe that we have had a breakthrough.
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EU commissioner suspicious of bundled utilities in Windows VistaMar 29, 2006 - in News
Hearings are scheduled for this week regarding whether Microsoft has complied with a European Committee directive to turn over information explaining how Windows can be made interoperable. In the meantime, however, Commissioner Neelie Kroes is raising fresh concerns over whether Microsoft has plans to unfairly promote and extend Windows Live Search. The key, quite literally, could be in front of our faces.
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A "highly critical" flaw in Internet ExplorerMar 24, 2006 - in News
Security firm Secunia today disclosed a programming error in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could allow malicious hackers to take over users' computers and destroy their hard drives or turn them into "zombie" spam mailers.
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Vista delay could pull Intel's price-cut schedule forwardMar 23, 2006 - in News
Taiwan's notebook manufacturers expect Intel's price reduction on dual-core Yonah processors to arrive in advance of the planned date of May 28, with the aim of stimulating the worldwide notebook PC market, despite Microsoft's delayed launch of its next operating system (OS).
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AMD may provide CPUs for Ultra-Mobile PCs, say PC makersMar 22, 2006 - in News
Demand for Microsoft's Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) will really depend on whether technical issues such as excessive power use can be resolved, sources at Taiwan PC manufacturers indicated, who hinted that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) may also become involved in this potential market.
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Microsoft readies next two versions of Internet ExplorerMar 21, 2006 - in News
Microsoft wants to make up for lost time, after waiting five years to update its Internet Explorer browser.
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Microsoft targets phishersMar 21, 2006 - in News
Microsoft says it is undertaking a massive legal campaign against phishers.
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Microsoft releases Beta 2 of IE7, as Gates apologizes for long waitMar 20, 2006 - in News
With a keynote speech to open the company's inaugural Mix '06 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates flipped the switch on Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7 - the one component of Windows Vista which you can get and run right now. Along with the launch, Gates tried displaying some of Microsoft's newly discovered humility, with some "Mix '06-ed" results.
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Microsoft to introduce Windows Live Family Safety SettingsMar 14, 2006 - in News
Microsoft will be rolling out a new web-based service designed to help parents protect their children from unwanted online content.
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Microsoft axes Vista Bios replacementMar 13, 2006 - in News
Microsoft has decided not to support the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) in its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
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Microsoft offers more tools for search engineMar 9, 2006 - in News
Microsoft is trying to tackle its declining share in the search-engine market by introducing new tools it says will make Web searching easier and more efficient.
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Microsoft says better than Google soonMar 1, 2006 - in News
Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.
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Will Microsoft Origami be the first UMPC?Feb 27, 2006 - in News
A website vaguely describing what could be a handheld device is heating up rumors on the Internet, OrigamiProject.com, registered to Microsoft, is believed to outlined a new approach to generate a product category between the PDA and the Tablet PC, which appears to fit very well into Intel's description of a Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC).
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Six versions of Windows Vista, as Microsoft subdivides home, business tiersFeb 27, 2006 - in News
Microsoft announced the final names and basic ingredients for its six upcoming versions of Windows Vista. Media Center and Tablet functionality will be built into the new Vista Home Premium edition, while Enterprise users will enjoy the capability to run UNIX software, and to keep their hard drive contents encrypted.
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Certified email draws mixed reactionsFeb 23, 2006 - in News
While the giant e-mail providers battle against spammers and Internet scammers, stealth-mode start-ups and other small vendors are gearing up, hoping to ignite the newest fight against malicious use of e-mail and the Internet.
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$10,000 reward offered for discovery of critical Windows bugsFeb 20, 2006 - in News
A security company known for paying bounties on bugs will launch a new program next week that will pay researchers $10,000 for finding Windows vulnerabilities that Microsoft classifies as "Critical".
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Infineon blamed for Xbox shortage fiascoFeb 15, 2006 - in News
German chipmaker Infineon has been named as the culprit for Microsoft's inability to supply enough Xbox 360s.
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Microsoft Office Live beta goes liveFeb 15, 2006 - in News
In the next step of the company's image makeover from "monopoly" to "laboratory," Microsoft today launched the first stage of its Office Live Web hosting services. Customers will be able to deploy Web sites for free, at least during the beta cycle, if they don't mind accepting a few words from their sponsor.
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EC denies Microsoft deadline extension, while the company cries foulFeb 8, 2006 - in News
European Commission spokesperson Jonathan Todd confirmed to Reuters today that the EC has denied Microsoft's request for an extension to its 15 February deadline for turning over interoperability documentation for Windows.
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Microsoft to offer PC care package for $50 per yearFeb 8, 2006 - in News
Microsoft announced that it will be rolling out the commercial version of its OneCare Live service in June of this year. Designed to compete with similar products typically offered by anti-virus companies, Microsoft hopes to gain traction with and extended service that is seamlessly integrated into Windows.
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French cops ditch IEFeb 6, 2006 - in News
The French police force plans to ditch Microsoft's Internet Explorer as its preferred browser software and replace it with Firefox by the end of the year.
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Symantec readies security subscription serviceFeb 2, 2006 - in News
Symantec expects to begin offering a new consumer security service similar to Microsoft's Windows OneCare Live by September of this year, a company executive said this week.
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Microsoft: No delays to Vista Beta 2, 2006 releaseFeb 2, 2006 - in News
Clearly denying press reports that Microsoft would not be releasing a Beta 2 edition of Windows Vista, a company spokesperson yesterday told TG Daily that comments made last week by co-president Jim Allchin actually referred to a change in plan, but not a scrapping or skipping of the beta system.
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