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Recently, Silverlight 3 gained the ability to use custom pixel shaders as was already available in WPF.

Blackboard Inc. today announced an alliance with Microsoft Corporation to offer students and learners access to information from their online courses on Web browsers, enabling them to keep up with important course updates while surfing the Web, not just when logged into their BlackboardA accounts.

Among customers' spending priorities are technologies that promise high return on investment and nondiscretionary products like security and compliance software.

It has near-monopoly status and nimble, disruptive competitors. Wea TMve seen this movie before.

A new report by Microsoft shows that the two most prevalent threats to Windows PCs in the first half of 2009 were malicious programs that have been aided mightily in their spread by a decision by Microsoft to allow the contents of removable media -- such as USB thumb drives -- to load automatically when inserted into Windows machines.

Whether you like Microsoft or not, the Redmond giant does have one thing going for it: the company's research division.

Despite a sobering presentation about sexting and a Twitter promo from one of the world's most popular tweeters, the main message of the day at the first Wired Moms summit on Friday was pretty low tech: talk to your kids.

When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007 faced in late 2006.

Any PC manufacturers who have been looking for Windows 7 to boost sales appear to be out of luck, according to a report from DigiTimes in Taiwan.

Say what you like about Microsoft, but their Research arm certainly know how to put together an eye-catching demo.

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Yahoo continues to push ahead with mobile search distribution deals, despite its search agreement with Microsoft .

What: Keynote speech. The Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2009 keynote speech with Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, and Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Server and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp., will discuss the state of IT and the new generation of business solutions that help customers reach their full ...

Microsoft appears to be getting relatively strong early adoption of Windows 7 in the 10 days since its official launch .

No great surprise here - after all, HTC CEO Peter Chou already exclusively confirmed it to us back in October - but HTC have officially announced that the HTC HD2 Windows Phone will be headed to the US in early 2010.

Be afraid - you're in the 'New Normal' SCOTT ROCHFORT November 5, 2009 Huff and puff...Gail Kelly says the cost of debt is going to rise for all of us.

Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie stands at a computer system of the future that uses various input devices, including pen computing.

Enspiria Solutions Included in Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture Key Tool for Smart Grid Development Denver, CO, November 3, 2009 - Enspiria Solutions, a leading provider of consulting and systems integration to the utility and government sectors, announced that the company has been included in the recently published Microsoft Smart ...

Today Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced that the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite , Microsoft Corp.'s business communication and collaboration software delivered as a service, will be available in 15 additional countries and regions later this week.

Imagine a plain-vanilla stock that that trades at a forward P/E of 13 and pays a 2% dividend.