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Thursday, 14 January 2021 11:26
Microsoft source code access: assume the worst, says Israeli firm
The lack of timing and detail in Microsoft's announcement about its source code being accessed by the attackers who used SolarWinds' Orion network management software in a supply chain attack can only mean that this is bad news, the Israel-based source code control, detection, and response solution start-up Cycode, claims.
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Saturday, 02 January 2010 17:15
Zune HD languishes near bottom of Amazon's bestseller list
With the iPod Touch trouncing sales of Microsoft’s Zune HD media
player, is Microsoft just in a holding pattern until it releases the
mythical ZunePhone?
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Fuzzy Logic
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Monday, 27 July 2009 08:49
Microsoft has hit bottom, set for rebound: analyst
Analyst firm Ovum describes Microsoft's results as "dismal" but suggests the worst might be over for the software giant.
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Monday, 29 September 2008 12:23
Pussycat Dolls at the Sydney Opera House for Xbox Sounds
Microsoft Australia are building the hype for the release of Lips – the new Xbox 360 Karaoke game – by hooking up a series of musical acts utilising iconic Australian locations as backdrops. First under the spotlight are the Pussycat Dolls strutting their girrrl power in front of the Sydney Opera House. Hopefully Australian musical acts will also get a look in.
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Entertainment
Tuesday, 09 September 2008 20:36
Who gives a toss about the Microsoft Zune?
With less than two hours to go before the Let's Rock Apple Event in San Francisco kicks off, does anyone really give a toss about an update to the Microsoft Zune?
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Home Tech
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 19:07
'œSanity' launches music rental service in Australia - 17 months late!
Announced at the Australian launch of Windows Vista on January 30,
2007, and due to launch in April 2007, Australian music store “Sanity”
has finally launched Australia’s first music subscription service on
the 14th of August 2008. Is it worth it?
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Fuzzy Logic
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 05:02
A Microsoft shop?
File under ‘r’ for rumour for now, but it seems sources close to Microsoft are hinting at a desire to follow Apple’s lead by having retail stores pushing Microsoft branded stuff onto the public.
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Entertainment
Friday, 01 February 2008 16:17
Nintendo DS sells a million, Hey Microsoft how about a hand-held?
One million Nintendo DS units sold in a country of around 22 million people, the figures are impressive for Nintendo, at it is hard to imagine the bubble bursting any time soon. Sony with their sophisticated PlayStation Portable (PSP) have made in-roads, perhaps, despite the overwhelming odds against it, there is room for other players in the hand-held gaming arena. Could Microsoft be that player?
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Radioactive IT
Monday, 07 January 2008 17:08
Gates CES 2008 keynote: Pieces of the Microsoft puzzle
Bill Gates has given his 11th and last CES keynote as Microsoft
head-honcho, looking at the future, touch and talk interfaces, the
Beijing Olympics, Zune, new TV shows and movies for Xbox Live, Xbox 360
sales and IPTV - but the rumoured Xbox 360 Ultimate didn’t make an
appearance.
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Fuzzy Logic
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Friday, 14 December 2007 02:24
PlaysForSure is GoneForSure
Microsoft's PlaysForSure logo program is dead and buried. Designed to assure consumers of compatibility between music players using the company's DRM scheme and tracks purchases or rented from online stores, PlaysForSure has been moved into the Certified for Windows Vista program.
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Strategy
Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:02
Microsoft plans Musiwave acquisition
Microsoft has announced its intention to acquire mobile music services company Musiwave from its current parent Openwave.
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Strategy
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 09:56
Microsoft plays catch-up with new Zunes
New model Zunes match iPod gigabyte for gigabyte, and dollar for dollar.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 02:44
Amazon opens DRM-free music download store
Amazon MP3 has begun offering over two million songs in the DRM-free MP3 format, at the same time undercutting Apple's iTunes Store.
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Business Telecommunications
Tuesday, 18 September 2007 13:32
On content providers, noses and faces
Apple's success with the iPod family and the iTunes Store has content vendors in a bind.
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Business Telecommunications
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 01:17
$50 Zune price cut a sign of Microsoft desperation?
Not long before new iPods were announced, Microsoft made an announcement of its own, dropping 30GB Zune pricing by $50, in a desperate attempt to get Zune sales zooming – but who’d want a Zune when they could buy an iPod instead?
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 16:56
A Zune phone not anytime Zune
Rumours come and rumours go but one rumour that will never come to fruition is Microsoft attempting to emulate Apple's entry into the mobile phone space with a device based on Zune.
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:44
iTunes battle gets hotter as Real, MTV and Verizon get rhythm
MTV has lost the URGE to keep playing with Microsoft, joining Real
Networks instead to offer music through a subscription download service
called Rhapsody America, for PCs and mp3 players, with Verizon
customers able to download music to their cell phones – but is it
anywhere near enough to defeat iTunes?
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Fuzzy Logic
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 20:28
Microsoft, LG, patents and Linux get cross
A cross-license patent agreement between software behemoth Microsoft
and Korean electronics powerhouse LG may result in some interesting
products. Will we see an LG HDTV with built-in Xbox 360?
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Fuzzy Logic
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 10:52
3, 2, 1, Ignition for Microsoft music marketing push
A new marketing program from Microsoft provides recording artists with a way to reach tens of millions of consumers, company officials claim.
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Home Tech
Wednesday, 30 May 2007 23:19
Shock: Microsoft hasn't sold one million Zunes after all!
News reports suggesting Microsoft has sold a little over a million
Zunes were inadvertently wrong, due to a transcription error which saw
a critical part of a sentence change – but Microsoft will have sold 1
million units soon enough.
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Fuzzy Logic
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