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Microsoft Empowers Enterprises to Think Bigger About Business Intelligence

harminka — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:50:12 -0500

New “managed self-service” business intelligence technologies and enhanced enterprise-class data warehousing capabilities usher in era of truly pervasive BI.

GoDaddy.com Launches New Hosted Microsoft Exchange Plans for Access on Go

harminka — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:32:25 -0500

GoDaddy.com Inc., the world’s largest domain registrar and largest hosting provider in North America, and Microsoft Corp. today announced that GoDaddy.com is delivering mobile and group e-mail plans with Microsoft Outlook, powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) improve worker productivity and communications regardless of physical location.

Microsoft Helps Customers Overcome Barriers to Virtualization

harminka — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:03:44 -0500

Following the broad product, partner and customer announcements from its “Get Virtual Now” launch last month, Microsoft Corp.’s CEO Steve Ballmer today announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 in front of a crowd of 700 IT professionals during a TechNet Server and Tools event keynote address in London.

Microsoft Amalga to Help Drive Improvements in Operations, Pediatric Care

harminka — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:08:55 -0500

Among the first pediatric healthcare centers nationwide to adopt Amalga, Seattle Children’s will now be able to consolidate and view valuable patient data currently locked in core IT systems.

Zune Marketplace Introduces Exclusive Fania Records Digital Store

harminka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:08:55 -0500

Today Zune, Microsoft Corp.’s end-to-end music and entertainment service, announced jointly with Fania Records the availability of a custom collection of Fania albums consisting of never-before-digitally-released productions.

Microsoft Announces Share Repurchase Program and Increases Quarterly Dividend

harminka — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:54:23 -0500

Microsoft Corp. announced that its board of directors approved a new share repurchase program authorizing up to an additional $40 billion in share repurchases with an expiration of September 30, 2013.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Is Value Leader

harminka — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:45:37 -0500

New TPC-E performance benchmark results from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)1 rank Microsoft SQL Server 2008 No. 1 for price/performance2 on industry-leading hardware using Intel Corporation’s new Dunnington x64 processor, and on another TPC-E release, SQL Server 2008 is No. 1 for performance3 using the new IBM System x3950 M2 server.

Microsoft and CNBC Team Up on Mobile Advertising

harminka — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:37:20 -0500

Microsoft Corp. and CNBC Inc. today announced that Microsoft will be the exclusive third-party provider of mobile WAP site display advertising to CNBC.com’s U.S. mobile audience of 1.1 million unique monthly visitors. This alliance represents Microsoft’s first mobile ad syndication deal in the U.S. and is an extension of the companies’ online advertising collaboration announced last December.

Games for Windows Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary Like a Rockstar

harminka — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:33:52 -0500

Microsoft Corp. celebrates its second anniversary of the Games for Windows initiative this month with the news that the year’s biggest blockbuster, “Grand Theft Auto IV” (Rockstar Games), will debut on the PC this November exclusively as a Games for Windows-branded title, joining a growing list of more than 85 top PC games from today’s hottest publishers.

Google Leaps Into the Top 10 for Global Brands

Iria — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:48:12 -0500

Last week Interbrand issued its 2008 Best Global Brands rankings. While most of the top 10 remained unchanged, with IBM and Microsoft swapping places (IBM rose from 3 to 2), one big change emerged: Google rose from 20 to 10, with Mercedes-Benz dropping to 11.

"I'm a PC Ad," But I Was Made on a Mac

Iria — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:51:56 -0500

Microsoft's new phase of its ad campaign, aimed at renovating the image of Windows, which began with the much criticized Seinfeld-Gates ads (three of which were filmed but only two of which were aired), seems much better than the first phase.

"I'm a PC," and Also a Better Commercial. New Microsoft Ads Go Live

Iria — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:48:59 -0500

The new Microsoft ads went live on Thursday. And at the start of each ad is Sean Siler, a Microsoft employee who, luckily for Microsoft bears some resemblance to John Hodgman, the PC in Apple's ads. In the first and third ads, he says "I'm a PC, and I've been made into a stereotype. In the second ad he says, "I'm a PC, and I'm not alone."