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Microsoft talks up tablets, shows off new phones (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp set out its ambitions to dominate the consumer electronics market on Thursday with Windows-powered tablet computers and smartphones designed to beat back advances by Apple Inc and Google Inc.
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Microsoft: We are leading 'cloud' (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The software giant's COO Kevin Turner vowed at a meeting with financial analysts that the company will become the industry leader in "cloud" computing technology. Microsoft (NMS:MSFT) said that Dow Chemical and Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, part of Hyatt Hotels , are among its big cloud customer wins. Analysts contend cloud computing will prove crucial to future Microsoft sales. Shares rose 0.3% to 26.03.more
Ballmer Pushes Slates but Reveals Few Details (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's chief executive on Thursday sought to address some common questions raised by analysts, but his answers may not have been exactly what they were looking for.more
Ballmer: Tablet coming 'as soon as we can' (AP)
AP - Microsoft will compete with Apple's iPad, but it isn't saying when.more
Tablet computers 'job one urgency' at Microsoft: Ballmer (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that developing Windows-based tablet computers and getting them to market is "job one urgency" for the US software giant.
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Microsoft's Ballmer Wants to 'Make Things Happen' on Tablets (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The development of a Windows 7 slate or tablet is job number one at Microsoft, chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday.more
Microsoft to Push Harder for Cloud (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft is shifting its strategy away from pitching itself as a company that can offer companies a choice of software or hosted services, toward pushing the cloud, an executive said on Thursday at the software giant's annual financial analyst meeting.more
Microsoft COO Admits Mistake, Pledges to 'Lead with the Cloud' (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft executives pledged to "lead with the cloud" on Thursday, acknowledging that offering business customers a choice between packaged software and cloud-based services had been a mistake.more
Microsoft hosts annual financial analyst meeting (AP)
AP - Analysts will be looking for clues about the future of Microsoft Corp.'s mobile and online businesses and its strategy for Windows-based tablet computers at an annual meeting with the software maker on Thursday.more
Microsoft Has a New Take on Street-Level Maps [VIDEO] (Mashable)
Mashable - Microsoft is working on a new technology, dubbed Street Slide, aimed at reshaping the street-level mapping space currently dominated by Google Street View and Microsoft's Bing Streetside.more
What's New in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 [VIDEO] (Mashable)
Mashable - The Microsoft Mac team has posted the first in a series of videos that show off some of the new features in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.more
Microsoft, Adobe Announce Security Tools, Partnership (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - At Black Hat on Wednesday, Microsoft and Adobe announced that Adobe would be releasing advance vulnerability information to security vendors through Microsoft's existing MAPP (Microsoft Active Protections Program).more
LG Expects to Launch a Few Windows Phone 7 Mobiles This Year (PC World)
PC World - South Korea's LG Electronics will launch its first smartphone designed around Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software by the end of September and will follow with more by the end of the year, a company representative said Wednesday.more
Microsoft condemns Yahoo! Japan-Google alliance (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan's Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.
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Microsoft Cries Foul Over Google Tie-up With Yahoo Japan (PC World)
PC World - Yahoo Japan's decision to replace Microsoft with Google as its main search partner has been met with protest from Microsoft, which called the deal "anticompetitive."more
Free Tools Can Fix Windows Shortcut Vulnerability (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Security firms G Data Software and Sophos have released free tools that eliminate a vulnerability in an operating-system component called the Windows Shell for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability exists because Windows incorrectly parses shortcuts in such a way that malicious code may be executed whenever the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed.more
I4i Wins Final Approval From USPTO in Microsoft Dispute (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final confirmation of a patent awarded to i4i that is at the heart of a dispute with Microsoft and that once threatened the sale of Word software.more
Yahoo Japan to switch to Google's search engine (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Japan, Japan's largest Internet portal operator, will adopt Google's search engine, refusing to follow Yahoo Inc in choosing Microsoft as a partner.more
Yahoo Japan Inks Search Deal with Google, Microsoft Balks (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Yahoo Japan on Tuesday announced that is has signed a deal to use Google for its search engine and search ad delivery system. Microsoft quickly criticized the deal.more
Microsoft Hohm Outs Home Energy Hogs (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft has expanded its Hohm energy monitoring portal so home owners can see, directly from their personal computers, how much power their homes use.more