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| Forum: Microsoft Corporate | ||||
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| 1: |  Microsoft Launches $100 a year, Office 365 Home Premium"Today's launch of Office 365 Home Premium marks the next big step in Microsoft's transformation to a devices and services business," said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. | Jan 29, 2013 | ||
| 2: | Microsoft Reports Q2 Revenue of $21.5 Billion, and Earnings of $6.38 Billion After the close trading today, Microsoft reported that it earned $6.38 billion, or 76-cents-a-share, on revenue of $21.46 billion in its latest quarter, which ended in December. | Jan 24, 2013 | ||
| 3: | Does Microsoft Still Matter? 2013 Will Decide 2013 will be a make-or-break year for Microsoft. Not so much from a financial standpoint, but for how the company is perceived. | Dec 27, 2012 | ||
| 4: | Microsoft Opens Its Socl Social Search Tool To Beta Testers Microsoft says it's opening up its Socl social search tool to beta testers. | Dec 4, 2012 | ||
| 5: | Windows Division Head, Steven Sinofsky, Leaves Microsoft Sources have said the move came amid growing tension between Sinofsky and other top executives. | Nov 13, 2012 | ||
| 6: | Microsoft To Discontinue Messenger In Q1 2013 "Microsoft announced that its Messenger service will be discontinued in the first quarter of 2013." | Nov 6, 2012 | ||
| 7: | Microsoft Sued Over Patent For 'Tiles' In Windows 8 The company also said Microsoft is contributing to infringement by encouraging developers to make app tiles for the Windows Store. | Oct 31, 2012 | ||
| 8: | Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Talks About New Hardware, Ahead of Windows 8 Launch "Is it fair to say we're going to do more hardware? Obviously we are... Where we see important opportunities to set a new standard, yeah we'll dive in." | Oct 25, 2012 | ||
| 9: | Microsoft Announces New Surface Details Microsoft Corp. today released new details about its highly anticipated Microsoft Surface, a tablet PC designed to be the ultimate stage for Windows. | Oct 17, 2012 | ||
| 10: | Report: Microsoft Wrongly Targeted Sites With Takedown Requests To Google The request, sent in July, contained hundreds of addresses, and appeared to pinpoint articles and pages containing the number 45. | Oct 8, 2012 | ||
| 11: | Microsoft Criticised By U.S. Ad Industry Over Default Do Not Track In IE10 A U.S. based organization representing the advertising industry has sharply criticized Microsoft for its decision to enable the Do Not Track feature in a standard installation of Internet Explorer 10, the default browser in Windows 8. | Oct 3, 2012 | ||
| 12: | Microsoft Shows TypeScript, a Superset of JavaScript TypeScript is available under an Apache 2.0 open-source license. | Oct 3, 2012 | ||
| 13: | EU To Charge Microsoft Over 2009 Browser Choice Breach EU regulators are preparing to charge Microsoft Corp for failing to comply with a 2009 ruling ordering it to offer users a choice of web browsers, the EU's antitrust chief said on Thursday. | Sept 27, 2012 | ||
| 14: | Microsoft Updates Logo For the first time in 25 years, Microsoft is changing its corporate logo. | Aug 23, 2012 | ||
| 15: | Microsoft's 'Metro' Is No More, It's Windows 8 UI Anything currently/formerly known as a "Metro-Style application" (with or without a hyphen) will now be known officially as a "Windows 8 application." References to the "Metro user interface" will now be replaced by "Windows 8 user interface." | Aug 10, 2012 | ||
| 16: | Microsoft To Change 'Metro' Interface Name With Immediate Effect The Windows team is "working on a replacement term" according to the memo, "and plans to land on that by the end of this week." | Aug 3, 2012 | ||
| 17: | Microsoft Switches hotmail to outlook.com The revamped service will help sort messages as they arrive and allow users to make internet calls on Skype.[br][br]"We are giving you the first email service that is connected to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google, and soon, Skype, to bring relevant context and communications to your email," | Aug 1, 2012 | ||
| 18: | Microsoft Reports First Loss Ever, Q4 Revenues of $18.06 Billion "OSD operating loss increased $5.9 billion primarily due to a goodwill impairment charge of $6.2 billion, which we recorded as a result of our annual goodwill impairment test in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012. The non-cash, non-tax-deductible charge related mainly to goodwill acquired through our 2007 acquisition of aQuantive, Inc. While our search business has been improving, our expectations for future growth and profitability for OSD are lower than our previous estimates. We do not expect the impairment charge to affect OSD's ongoing business or financial performance.[br][br]Excluding the $6.2 billion goodwill impairment charge, OSD operating loss decreased $266 million or 36pct, due to higher revenue and lower cost of revenue and sales and marketing expenses. | July 20, 2012 | ||
| 19: | Microsoft Office 2013 Preview Now Available Office 2013 brings Office into the cloud and offers built in PDF editing amongst many other features. | July 17, 2012 | ||
| 20: | Microsoft "writes down" Aquantive for $6.2 billion Microsoft has written down the value of an online advertising firm it bought five years ago by $6.2bn. | July 3, 2012 | ||
| 21: | EU Court Upholds Microsoft's Antitrust Fine, Reduced Slightly To $1.12 Billion Europe's second highest court has upheld a competition ruling against Microsoft saying it "essentially upholds the Commission's decision". | June 27, 2012 | ||
| 22: | Microsoft releases own tablet "Surface" for Windows 8 and RT Microsoft-made hardware to be available starting with release of Windows 8 and Windows RT. | June 19, 2012 | ||
| 23: | Microsoft to Acquire Yammer Social Network Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for more than $1 billion, according a person familiar with the matter. | June 15, 2012 | ||
| 24: | Windows 8 Release Preview now available As expected, Microsoft shipped Windows 8 Release Preview today. This should be the final beta we get until the final release. | June 1, 2012 | ||
| 25: | Microsoft Launches So.cl Student Social Network So.cl isn't designed to be a Facebook challenger. | May 21, 2012 | ||
| 26: | Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Barnes and Noble The partnership with Microsoft could give the Nook the kind of content and global expansion to make it a bigger player in the tablet business, | Apr 30, 2012 | ||
| 27: | Microsoft Reports Q3 Revenue 6pct Up at $17.41 Billion "We're driving toward exciting launches across the entire company, while delivering strong financial results," said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft. | Apr 20, 2012 | ||
| 28: | Announcing the Windows 8 Editions The product names are Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. | Apr 17, 2012 | ||
| 29: | Microsoft and Others Raid Command and Control Over Botnets In our most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, in collaboration with Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS ISAC) and NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association, as well as Kyrus Tech Inc., has executed a coordinated global action against some of the worst known cybercrime operations fueling online fraud and identity theft today. | Mar 26, 2012 | ||
| 30: | Windows 8 Consumer Preview Announced With Windows 8, the whole experience of Windows has been reimagined. It's designed to work on a wide range of devices, from touch-enabled tablets, to laptops, to desktops and all-in-ones. We've designed Windows 8 to give you instant access to your apps, your files, and the information you care about most so you can spend less time navigating and more time doing what you actually want to do.[br][br]You can move between Windows 8 PCs easily and access your files and settings from virtually anywhere. We've made touch a first-class experience and navigating with a mouse and keyboard fast and fluid. And just like Windows 7, reliability and security features are built in. | Feb 29, 2012 | ||
| 31: | Cisco Will Challenge Microsoft Skype Deal at EU Court Cisco has said it will challenge Microsoft's $8.5bn takeover of Skype at the EU's top court. | Feb 16, 2012 | ||
| 32: | Microsoft So.cl: A New Way For Students to Collaborate Called So.cl and pronounced 'social,' the experimental research project is being made available to students in information and design schools at the University of Washington, Syracuse University, and New York University.[br][br]In time, more schools will be added, potentially expanding So.cl's use as a learning and information-gathering tool. | Dec 15, 2011 | ||
| 33: | Skype officially becomes a new business division within Microsoft Well, it's official. The Microsoft-Skype deal has officially closed as it was approved by the board of directors of both companies, as well as the FTC. | Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| 34: | Europe Clears The Way For Microsoft's Acquisition of Skype The European Commission said that its investigation of the takeover showed that the firms' activities mainly overlapped for video communications, where Microsoft is active through its Windows Live Messenger.[br][br]"However, the Commission considers that there are no competition concerns in this growing market where numerous players, including Google, are present," it said in a statement. | Oct 7, 2011 | ||
| 35: | Microsoft Takes Down Kelihos Botnet Kelihos, also known by some as 'Waledac 2.0' given its suspected ties to the first botnet Microsoft took down, is not as massive as the Rustock spambot. However, this takedown represents a significant advance in Microsoft's fight against botnets nonetheless. | Sept 28, 2011 | ||
| 36: | Microsoft Lets Developers Get Windows 8 Test Version Although the company is giving the early code to developers, Microsoft isn't saying when the operating system will ship. | Sept 13, 2011 | ||
| 37: | Microsoft to Give Hotmail an Image (and feature) Makeover Microsoft is planning a Hotmail press event in October that may mark the introduction of a new (and maybe HTML5-based) version of its Web-based e-mail service. | Sept 10, 2011 | ||
| 38: | Bing, The Costly Distraction For Microsoft The division that houses Bing lost $2.6 billion in the latest fiscal year. Facebook, or even Apple, might make a better home for Bing. | July 26, 2011 | ||
| 39: | Microsoft Reports Record Q4 Revenue of $17.37 Billion Microsoft Corp. today announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, an 8pct increase from the same period of the prior year.[br][br]For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, Microsoft reported record revenue of $69.94 billion, a 12pct increase from the prior year. Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the year were $27.16 billion, $23.15 billion, and $2.69, which represented increases of 13pct, 23pct, and 28pct, respectively, when compared with the prior year. | July 22, 2011 | ||
| 40: | Microsoft Offering $250,000 Reward Over Rustock Botnet After publishing notices in two Russian newspapers last month to notify the Rustock operators of the civil lawsuit, we decided to augment our civil discovery efforts to identify those responsible for controlling the notorious Rustock botnet by issuing a monetary reward in the amount of $250,000 for new information that results in the identification, arrest and criminal conviction of such individual(s). | July 19, 2011 | ||
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