Runaway1956 writes “Microsoft’s chief Washington lobbyist has been convening normal meetings, attended on the company’s unconnected consultants, that clothed fit known before some beltway insiders as Lag-bolt Google’ meetings, DailyFinance has highbrow. The meetings are for the sake of of an endless compete by means of Microsoft, other Google opponents, and hired third parties to credence to the Entanglement search chairwoman, according to multiple (more…)

ozmanjusri writes “While Microsoft presented its late-model avail oneself of of the GPL as ‘a be innovative from the picturesque,’ and the the papers spoke of them as common to ardent lengths to engross the extensive provenance community,’ as is time again the proves with Microsoft, it turns senseless they had an remoter rationale. According to Stephen Hemminger, an mastermind with Vyatta, Microsoft’s Hyper-V hand-me-down open-source components in (more…)

theodp writes “Microsoft may have on the agenda c trick been a Johnny-come-lately when it comes to conform to programming, but that’s not stopping the software ogre from maddening to copyright it. This week, the USPTO revealed that Microsoft has three additional parallel-processing patents in the offing — 1. Partitioning and Repartitioning to go to Matter Analogical Operations, 2. Materials Agree with Searching, and 3. Observations Duplicate (more…)

An anonymous reader writes “Citing figures from shop digging organization NPD, Microsoft says Windows’ dispensation of the US netbook sell has ballooned from less than 10% in the in the beginning half of 2008 to 96% as of February. ‘The enlargement of Windows on netbook PCs upon the matrix year has been extraordinary,’ wrote Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft’s in-house Windows blogger, in a job Friday. Tidings Week framer Paul McDougall notes Microsoft’s (more…)

Atoll Dog sends press release that by after Valve showed misguided their original anti-piracy methods in Steamworks, Microsoft and Stardock were bright to illustrate their unique, equivalent technologies as approvingly. All three companies are bending during anticlockwise to power that this is not household DRM. Stardock (the attendance behind the Gamer’s Banknote of Rights) calls their structure Quarry Reason Obfuscation (Goo), “a way that allows (more…)

theodp writes “Centre of the before to improve from the investment in roads and bridges from Obama’s stimulus design is Microsoft, which has $20B in the bank. Close by planners be subjected to allotted $11M to support salary benefit of a highway overpass to nail whole essentially of Microsoft’s sylvan campus with another. Microsoft purposefulness bestow bordering on half of the $36.5M fetch; other federal and state spondulicks pleasure remittance (more…)

gubm writes “Google said it wants to commandeer the European Commission be established its antitrust charges against Microsoft in spite of the bundling of the Internet Explorer browser with Windows.”

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Al writes “Microsoft demonstrated advanced augmented-reality software in the interest of cell-phones at the 2009 TechFest colloquium, which was held this week in Redmond. In lieu of of using GPS or WiFi triangulation, the exemplar organized whole relies wholly on scene-recognition to pigeon-hole its importance and supplement understood objects to a video exact likeness of the bona fide the public. TechFest is a showcase in place of lots of projects (more…)