Tagged: Microsoft

Google Launches Chrome – Will the Browser Turn Golden?

News out today that Google Inc. is releasing its very own Web browser, called Chrome. This is a long-anticipated move targeted directly at Microsoft Corp’s dominant browser, Internet Explorer. IE is used by about 75% of...

Multiple Core Computer Chips

Researchers from the University of California, backed by technology titans Intel and Microsoft, said Tuesday they are embarking on a project to bring the power of supercomputers to people’s laptops and mobile devices. New...

Bill Gates Cure – “Creative Capitalism”

Bill Gates Cure – “Creative Capitalism”

(Photo by: J.P. Moczulski / REUTERS/Landov) The success story of Bill Gates is nothing but spectacular. But by the very same markets that made him rich, he now wants to overhaul capitalism. The founder of Microsoft is...

Microsoft Gives a 3D Look at Space Shuttle

Microsoft Gives a 3D Look at Space Shuttle

NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of...

Microsoft Conquers China

Microsoft Conquers China

Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment...

Gates Not Going Anywhere Soon

Gates Not Going Anywhere Soon

Microsoft Corp. is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as...

Gamers in a Fix Over Xbox Repair Process

Gamers in a Fix Over Xbox Repair Process

Microsoft’s announcement that it will spend $1 billion to fix problematic Xbox 360s seemed like a step that would assuage disenchanted customers. Nearly a month later, however, some console owners are still less than...

Making A Microserf Smile

Making A Microserf Smile

Steven A. Ballmer had an epic morale problem on his hands. Microsoft Corp.’s stock had been drifting sideways for years, and Google envy was rampant on the Redmond (Wash.) campus. The chronically delayed Windows...

Air Force Pulls In Cyberwarriors From Microsoft, Cisco

If the U.S. Air Force is ever ordered into a real cyberwar with a foreign country or computer-savvy terrorist group, the 100-plus citizen cybersoldiers at the Air National Guard’s 262nd Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron...

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