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Gates: Blu-ray DRM is 'anti-consumer'Oct 17, 2005 - in News
As part of a speaking tour at universities across the United States, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sat down with Princeton's newspaper to discuss the road ahead.
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Microsoft connects Windows PCs, TVs with Xbox 360 consoleOct 14, 2005 - in News
Microsoft today released the Update Rollup 2 for its Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 system, which enables users to stream digital content - including high-definition video - to any TV the console is connected to. The update is available as a free download.
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Microsoft to include native support for PDF in Office 12Oct 3, 2005 - in News
Brian Jones, program manager at Microsoft, announced that Microsoft will be incorporating support for Adobe's PDF format in all core applications of the next-generation Office suite, currently codenamed "Office 12." According to Microsoft, an overwhelming number of customers requested support for the technology.
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Dell extends XPS series, confirms 256 MByte memory requirement for Vista PCsOct 1, 2005 - in News
In a press conference to unveil Dell's an extended and updates range XPS line of products, founder and chairman Michael Dell told reporters that for any computer to be "Vista ready," it needs more than the 128 MByte of graphics memory currently recommended by Microsoft.
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Microsoft's Ballmer to confer with EU antitrust chief next weekSep 30, 2005 - in News
The Associated Press is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is planning to meet with European Commission member in charge of antitrust policy, Neelie Kroes, presumably to discuss future Microsoft antitrust issues there: Neelie Kroes planned to meet Ballmer over breakfast Wednesday to discuss general antitrust issues, EU spokesman Jonathan Todd said.
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Intel to partner with RIM on next-gen Blackberry deviceSep 29, 2005 - in News
Intel today confirmed rumors on a collaboration with Research in Motion (RIM) to create the next Blackberry handheld. According to a statement, Intel will provide to RIM its first UMTS platform, currently codenamed "Hermon," which will include an Xscale processor than will run at speeds of about 1 GHz.
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PDC: Microsoft's Greg Sullivan on XML, information systems, GoogleSep 19, 2005 - in News
Toward the end of Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference here on Thursday, we sat down with the company's group product manager for Windows, Greg Sullivan, to chat about the emergence of a "big picture" vision of Windows appearing and working everywhere, not just on PCs, but on handheld devices, the back ends of digital cameras, and the ice makers on refrigerators. Connecting all these seemingly unrelated devices is a standards-driven contextual information sharing system that Microsoft - and perhaps only Microsoft - is developing.
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PDC: Microsoft to aim for "tiered" hardware requirements for VistaSep 16, 2005 - in News
Microsoft unveiled here at PDC 2005 the new 3D hardware acceleration dependencies of Windows Vista that will be realized even for ordinary 2D renderings. Tom's Hardware Guide learned that Microsoft intends to offer a "tiered" experience - the basics will run on an integrated chipset, but all the bells and whistles will call for a capable 256 MByte discrete graphics board.
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PDC: Microsoft unveils new programming platformsSep 13, 2005 - in News
In the later stages of today's keynote presentations at Microsoft's Professional Developers' conference, four of the company's more celebrated developers, including C# creator Anders Hejlsberg and COM pioneer Don Box, publicly unveiled a staggering array of new programming platforms including the company's Atlas programming model.
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PDC: "SuperFetch" to accelerate application boot time in VistaSep 13, 2005 - in News
Microsoft executive Jim Allchin today previewed a new feature in Windows that can significantly increase the speed applications are loaded and extend the virtual memory of a computer system by accessing secondary and peripheral storage devices such as USB Flash memory sticks.
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Australian Microsoft strategist raises eyebrows with Vista hardware requirementsSep 8, 2005 - in News
A Microsoft strategist told attendees of the TechEd 2005 conference on the Gold Coast last week that Windows Vista's new display driver model may compel users to upgrade to a PC with 2 GByte of DDR3 SDRAM and a graphics card with at least 256 MByte memory, according to Australian PC enthusiast publication APC Magazine .
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Xbox 360 component shipments to boost Foxlink and Ji-Haw revenuesSep 8, 2005 - in News
Foxlink (Cheng Uei Precision Industry) and Ji-Haw Industrial (JH) reported that they began shipping Xbox 360 related components to Microsoft in August, and they expect shipments of the related products to contribute significantly to their revenues in September.
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Microsoft readies disk-based recovery systemJul 8, 2005 - in News
Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) will be ready for prime time in the third quarter, the vendor is expected to announce Friday.
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Details of ATI's Xbox 360 GPU unveiledMay 20, 2005 - in News
With Microsoft's official announcement of the next-generation Xbox 360 console this week, ATI has decided to disclose some of the architectural details of the graphics processor that it created for the system.
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Microsoft brings high-end features to iSCSIMar 24, 2005 - in News
Microsoft plans to release version 2.0 of its iSCSI initiator next month, and the software giant has added features that could make Windows-based IP storage more attractive for high-end users.
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Microsoft: A single license for a dual-core processorOct 19, 2004 - in News
Microsoft announced that it will continue its per-processor licensing model with the introduction of dual-core and multicore processors. Systems, which required only one software license so far, will not need an additional license, even if it will be equipped with a dual-core chip.
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Microsoft shelves security project NGSCBMay 5, 2004 - in News
In a surprising move, Microsoft has dropped its security project, Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB). According to company officials, the controversial platform was shelved because partners of the company were not willing to rewrite their applications using the NGSCB API.
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