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WITHIN Microsoft’s Office group, the calendar on the wall appears to be 1983, the year the company introduced Microsoft Word. The company still expects customers to buy its software applications as products and install and run them on PCs.
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Zoho.com’s home page includes Zoho Writer, an online word [...]

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CHRIS PALADINO, a Microsoft employee who was hired in 2006, didn’t worry too much about his job when the economy began to sour last fall. The company employs nearly 90,000 people.
“I thought Microsoft was so stable, it wouldn’t be touched,” he said. Now, as one of the СЕКРЕТАРША,400 employees who received layoff notices [...]

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REDMOND, Wash. — Meet Laura, the virtual personal assistant for those of us who cannot afford a human one.
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Eric Horvitz, left, and Dan Bohus of Microsoft with the prototype of a virtual assistant that can understand its surroundings. [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing Microsoft of unfairly sidelining competitors, Google said on Tuesday that it would apply to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft over the company’s Web browser.
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The case, initiated by the E.U. in January, accused Microsoft of illegally tying Internet Explorer to [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. is joining forces with European regulators in an attack on Microsoft Corp.’s dominance of the Web browser market, injecting more bad blood between two of computing’s richest and most powerful companies.
The latest assault on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, announced Tuesday, comes as Google is trying to [...]

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BARCELONA, Spain — Microsoft said on Monday that LG Electronics had agreed to use Microsoft’s new mobile operating system on 50 of its smartphone models, increasing the software maker’s bid to gain a bigger share of the fast-growing mobile software business.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft plans to open its own stores despite the economic downturn that has left many retailers struggling.
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The company said Thursday that it had hired David Porter, a 25-year veteran of Wal-Mart Stores, as its corporate [...]

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — With sales of computers deteriorating by the day, the PC industry’s dominant players — Microsoft and Intel — have arrived at the stark realization that the slump in sales could last a long time, perhaps years.
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Steven Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief, in Las Vegas on [...]

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BERLIN — A year after ending its lengthy legal battle with the European Union, Microsoft, the software giant, is facing new charges of abusing its dominant position with the Windows operating system.
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But this time, legal experts say, the [...]

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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Friday that Microsoft’s practice of selling the Internet Explorer browser together with its Windows operating system violated the union’s antitrust rules.
It ordered the software giant to untie the browser from its operating system in the 27-nation union, enabling makers of rival browsers to compete fairly.
“Microsoft’s tying of [...]

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