August 31, 2010 9:31 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft and Yahoo say they are moving forward with their effort to transition search advertisers to Redmond’s set of search ad tools.
Beginning Tuesday, Yahoo advertisers can begin migrating their campaigns to Microsoft’s AdCenter, though users will still need to use both Yahoo and Microsoft [...]
August 25, 2010 10:11 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
(Credit:
Microsoft)
Microsoft plans to offer gamers the opportunity to play with each other in real time from either a console or a
Windows Phone 7 device, a manager revealed at Microsoft’s X10 conference in Toronto this week.
“We are working on real-time phone-to-console, likely initially through Wi-Fi,” [...]
August 24, 2010 9:23 AM PDT
by Don Reisinger
(Credit:
Bungie Studios)
Those who have downloaded the recently leaked Halo: Reach and plan to play it on
Xbox Live should beware: Microsoft will act swiftly to remove you from the online gaming service.
According to Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft’s director of Policy Enforcement for Xbox Live, Microsoft will [...]
August 24, 2010 9:36 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
A week after it began shifting to Bing for its search results, Yahoo says it has finished the transition, at least for its main search results in the U.S. and Canada.
The move comes more than a year after the Microsoft and Yahoo reached a [...]
August 18, 2010 10:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft said Wednesday the next version of Office for
Mac will get two key features that were part of the latest Windows version: photo editing and mini charts in Excel, known as Sparklines.
In a video posted on its Office for Mac Web site, the company [...]
August 9, 2010 5:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, speaking to CNET reporter Ina Fried after his talk at the Techonomy conference last week.
(Credit:
Ina Fried/CNET)
NEAR LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–Bill Gates says that it is gratifying to see the computer industry that he helped start turn some of its attention to [...]
August 2, 2010 9:06 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
After years of losing ground to
Firefox and other rivals, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser posted its second consecutive monthly gain in share, according to a market researcher.
For July, Internet Explorer snagged 60.74 percent market share, according to Netmarketshare. That’s up from 60.32 percent share in [...]
July 29, 2010 8:32 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft kicked off a daylong meeting with analysts on Thursday as the company looks to reassure investors that its future is as bright as its past.
The company began the event touting its recent quarterly results which resulted in double-digit revenue growth in all [...]
July 29, 2010 6:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
REDMOND, Wash.–Aiming to show it is still winning customers against Google, Microsoft on Thursday announced deals to provide hosted e-mail and portal software to three big corporate customers.
The software maker said Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels, and the University of Georgia are all using the [...]
July 28, 2010 10:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
After adding conversation view to the latest PC version of Office, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it is adding the feature to the next version of
Mac Office, which is coming later this year.
A look at the new Mac Office (images)
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