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Microsoft Launches 'CodePlex,' a New Code Repository Site


The Redmond software giant is building a community site for hosting projects that are available via Microsoft Shared Source, the GPL and a host of other licensing mechanisms.
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Windows Media Player 11 Takes on iTunes


Review: The new Windows Media Player shows that Microsoft can get the jump on Apple in ease of use and visual appeal. (PCMag.com)
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SharePoint: Microsoft's Sleeper Hit?


While all eyes are on Microsoft's Web services strategy aimed at Google, the Information Worker unit is pushing slowly and steadily to make SharePoint Server and Services the must-have products going forward.
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Microsoft Offers to Share Windows Protocols Past Deadline


Microsoft has agreed to a two-year extension of the licensing provisions required by U.S. antitrust litigation against the company, and is taking things a step further.
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Microsoft to Extend Windows Code Licensing Program


Microsoft has agreed to extend one of the key provisions of its landmark 2002 antitrust settlement with the U.S. government, the Justice Department says.
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Betas, Betas Everywhere


In this week's Microsoft Watch Microsoft Week Ahead/Week in Review podcast: Microsoft releases new betas across the board. Gates rolls out a "Live Anywhere" service. Coming up, it's all SharePoint, all the time. Possible new broadscale beta of Windows Media Player 11. Microsoft to host 100 CEOs at its annual CEO Summit.
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Microsoft CEO: Catching Yahoo, Google to Take Time


Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says he has a five-year target to gain a bigger slice of the lucrative online advertising market dominated by Google and Yahoo.
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Ballmer Sees Google, Open Source as Strongest Competitors


Microsoft's CEO says the company faces many competitors across different parts of its business, citing open-source and advertising business models as two big phenomena.
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Microsoft Rolls Out Windows CE 6


Microsoft has updated Windows CE with more capacity for complex apps and more multimedia and Web services.(WindowsForDevices.com)
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Microsoft Readies 'Project Bronx' Office Live Services


As it is doing on the Windows Live side of the house, Microsoft is working on a set of future software services aimed expressly at cell phone and PDA users.
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EU in Quandry on New Action Against Microsoft


Microsoft's new Vista operating system has put the European Commission in a quandry on whether to open a new front against the software giant before a court clarifies the EU antitrust watchdog's authority.
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Microsoft Advances into High-End Clustering


The software giant also announces the release candidate for Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2.
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Microsoft Fights Back over Its Spending Plans


Opinion: After surprising Wall Street with news that it plans to spend an additional $2 billion in the next fiscal year, Microsoft executives moved to explain why. And that has brought some calm to the roiled waters.
eWEEK Windows

A Fresh Face on Standards?


Microsoft officials reach out to change perceptions that the company hasn't learned its lesson when it comes to dealing with standards.
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