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Microsoft Tests Google News UK Rival
News But unlike rival periodical searches on the Web, Microsoft said the service is designed to deliver personalised news to visitors, using tracking technology and consumer data from users of Passport, Microsoft's e-wallet system.
[November 18, 2003, 8:50]
Microsoft Said To Be Developing IPod Rival
News Microsoft is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said on Friday. Robbie Bach, a rising star at Microsoft who headed development...
[June 19, 2006, 13:50]
Microsoft Bails Out Rival Corel
News Corel's alliance with a former rival -- the company got burned in 1997 after it bought WordPerfect and pitted it against Microsoft's Word software, a fight that left Corel bloodied and battered -- comes during a troubled year for the company and...
[October 3, 2000, 8:15]
Microsoft Tests Google News UK Rival
Talkback Ho Hum . Well no doubt it will be full of the normal M$ Bugs hols virui trojans ect ect ect ect and they think they will even SCRATCH the surface of Google yea well Oh look is that a purple flying pig with indigo stripes on it see flying past my...
[November 19, 2003, 20:54]
Microsoft Planning Google Storage Service Rival
Talkback It was actually Brandon LeBlanc who posted our article, not myself. Also your contact email address doesn't work.
[April 22, 2006, 17:58]
Microsoft Planning Google Storage Service Rival
Talkback Thanks for pointing out the error, Chris. Apologies. It has now been corrected.
[April 24, 2006, 10:31]
Microsoft Planning Google Storage Service Rival
Talkback The amount of storage is not so important as most consumers won't spend hours to upload files. The overall usability of the service, the sharing feature is much more important.www.drivehq.com is the leader in this space.
[May 5, 2006, 10:24]
Microsoft Moves Flash Rival Into Spotlight
News Microsoft's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash Player has an official name — Silverlight — and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the web. On Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in...
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
Microsoft Planning Google Storage Service Rival
News Microsoft is developing an online storage service, codenamed Live Drive, that could compete with Google's Gdrive project. Details of the project emerged during a Fortune magazine interview with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief technology officer.
[April 21, 2006, 13:35]
Hotmail Co-founder Launches Microsoft Office Rival
News Playing in the same space as both Microsoft Office and Google Docs, Sabeer Bhatia's Live Documents was launched on Wednesday. The suite also allows users to manipulate Microsoft Office applications, since it can be used as a desktop client.
[November 23, 2007, 15:07]
Microsoft Rival Aims At New Markets
News Company president Premysl Pech said PDF capability helps solve one of the most common challenges for any software that challenges Microsoft's dominant Office -- the ability to exchange files with people using a different productivity application.
[September 9, 2004, 10:15]
Microsoft Announces Desktop Search Tool Date
News Microsoft has set a firmer date for the release of its desktop search software, after Google launched a test version of its rival program for scouring a PC's hard drive. Google has emerged as a key rival to Microsoft.
[October 25, 2004, 8:20]
Adobe Quashes Office-rival Rumours
News Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an office productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office. AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) would allow start-up companies to develop their own web-based applications which could rival Microsoft Office.
[August 20, 2007, 15:17]
Symbian To Drop Microsoft In Favour Of Opera
News As Microsoft rival Time Warner/America Online weighs whether or not to break ranks with Microsoft, another Microsoft rival, Symbian, is doing just that. Von Tetzchner said Microsoft's acquisition sat none too well with rival Symbian.
[May 29, 2001, 17:17]
McNealy: It's .Net Against Mankind
News Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy was in fine fighting form as he traveled through Asia this week, uttering scathing sound bites about rival Microsoft. It's mankind versus Microsoft. Microsoft was not immediately available for comment.
[March 19, 2003, 14:44]
Is The Heyday Of The MP3 Coming To A Close?
News After years as the unrivalled king of the digital-media world, the venerable MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies from Microsoft and Apple. Some analysts say MP3 is evolving into a different role as a format many people use to...
[October 18, 2004, 11:00]
DoJ 'encouraged' By Microsoft Moves
News Microsoft has pulled back from a plan to exclude rival media players from portable music devices using its software. Under the programme Microsoft had proposed, device makers that included a CD with Windows Media Player and other software would...
[October 21, 2005, 10:30]
Microsoft Bets On Mobile IM
News In addition, rival Research In Motion plans to develop messaging software for devices that link to servers using software from both RIM and Microsoft. But with this deal, Microsoft is saying that even if customers use a rival means of connecting to...
[April 19, 2005, 9:20]
Apple Gives MPEG-4 A New Shine
News Apple Computer said Tuesday that people are gravitating toward QuickTime 6 and its underlying MPEG-4 standard for digital media playback -- a force to rival momentum for Microsoft's proprietary system.
[October 16, 2002, 8:10]
Google Sites Targets Microsoft SharePoint
News Google said on Wednesday that it is offering a simple website-publishing tool for office workers to set up and run their team-collaboration sites, taking aim at Microsoft's rival SharePoint franchise.
[February 28, 2008, 7:31]
