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Microsoft Canada President Eric Gales at the National Post's head office in Toronto, Tuesday June 30, 2009.

EMC Corporation announced it has been selected as the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner for Notes Transition Partner of the Year, marking the company's 19th Microsoft Partner of the Year distinction.

" Microsoft Corporation , already a holding on our buy list, was added to Goldman Sachs' Conviction Buy List," says Bill Martin .

Advertising agencies and Internet companies once viewed one another as foes, but are now coming together to harness the potential for online advertising.

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Last night while winding down and watching Ask This Old House , I was alerted to an important post by MG Siegler .

Would you like toast with that? Microsoft showed its edgy side this week with some innovative marketing moves aimed at the internet savvy, though the company backtracked quickly from a new video ad in which a woman vomits after finding a disturbing surfing history on her husband's laptop computer.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally, left, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discuss Microsoft's in-car communications and entertainment technology at the Microsoft campus in May.

Recognition Is for ESRI's Collaboration with Microsoft on Fusion Core Solution Technology for Data Fusion Centers Redlands, California-July 2, 2009-ESRI, the leader in geographic information system technology, was selected as one of two finalists for Microsoft's Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year award.

Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft promised that by purchasing the pricey Ultimate edition of Vista users would get all kinds of extras.

Microsoft has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real-time data, including postings from Twitter users.

Changes inside Microsoft have been subtle since Bill Gates left. July 2, 2009 By Stuart J. Johnston : It's been a year since Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates stepped away from the company full-time to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .

Infinity Info Systems , premier provider of customer relationship management and business analytics solutions, was chosen by Microsoft as a finalist for the prestigious Partner of the Year Award in the category, Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Wins Prestigious Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in Informatics for Second Consecutive Year 2009-06-30 13:38:29 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Wins Prestigious Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in Informatics for Second Consecutive Year FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Informatics ...

The cynical among us don't expect ethics to play much of a role in business, but the search engine business appears to be an exception.

Technology Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google Microsoft Bing search site Bing garners 8.23 percent of market, as Google falls to 78.48 pct in June from 78.72 pct in May LONDON/SEATTLE - Reuters Last updated on Wednesday, Jul.

CDC Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner in Information Worker Solutions, Office Solutions Development.

Unified communications has been a technology specialty of networking vendors for years, but Google Inc.'s recent forays into voice communications and collaboration could drastically upset the competitive landscape.

Sapiens International Corporation N.V announced that a global Financial Services Group's Reinsurance arm, has selected Sapiens to implement its reinsurance administration software, Sapiens INSIGHT for Reinsurance, awarding Sapiens a contract award in the amount of $1.1 million.