Microsoft India centre working on Windows 7
Designers and engineers at Microsoft R&D centre in India have a new mandate for development of Windows 7, the next generation operating system from Microsoft Corporation, slated for release in 2009-10. Thanks to pacpis for the news.
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4.8.2007 Microsoft to Invest $1.7 Billion in India
With plans to double its workforce in India over the next four years to 3,000, Microsoft on Wednesday said it would pump $1.7 billion into the country to develop new facilities for research and development. A special version of Windows for India will also be released in nine Indian languages.
"The growth in employment for Microsoft will be more in India than the United States," Bill Gates told reporters. Microsoft's pledge follows news that Intel will spend $1 billion in India over the next five years, and an announcement by Cisco that will invest $1.1 billion. Microsoft's efforts will focus on bridging the digital divide and provide technology to the poor and those without computers.
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7.12.2005 Sakshat, $10 laptop from India?
Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.
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7.2.2009 Microsoft helps fight online child abuse in India
What is that evil, evil Microsoft up to now? The software giant is working with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and the international police force Interpol to help Indian law enforcement agencies, such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in how to use technologies, tools, and procedures for countering cybercrimes against children.
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20.1.2007 Microsoft launches new low-cost PC effort in India
Microsoft has launched another low-cost PC effort in India, this time partnering with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices in an effort to get more computers into the hands of students.
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28.6.2007 Windows XP SP3 and Windows Seven - Made in India
Asphyxiated under Sinofsky's Windows Omerta, the Redmond company is not breathing a single word about the future of Windows XP and Windows Vista, and the whole of the Windows platform for that matter.
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6.8.2007 Why buy a genuine Windows Vista when pirated is easier and better?
Recently Microsoft had a 50% price cut for Home Basic and Home Premium Editions of Windows Vista. The price cut is mainly targeted at China which has the 2nd highest software piracy rate in the world after Vietnam. Thanks to thepodest for this post on the blog.
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8.8.2007 Buy Windows 7 RTM for Just £30 Come October 1, 2009
Microsoft is rolling out a new special offering with its latest iteration of the Windows client at the core. Dubbed the Windows 7 UK Student Offer, the special offering allows students in the United Kingdom to purchase Windows 7 for as little as £30.
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17.9.2009 Your XP-to-Windows 7 upgrade path: Buy a new PC
Microsoft's leaders really, really want you to forget about Vista and move right on to Windows 7. And who can blame them?
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17.9.2009 Buy Windows 7 for 35€, Just for French and German Students
Microsoft has lined up some pretty sweet deals with its latest iteration of the Windows client at the core, beating hands-down the special offerings it made available for Windows Vista, when it debuted in January 2007.
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29.10.2009 Leaked Best Buy memo reveals Windows 7 Upgrade pricing?
Earlier this week Microsoft finally confirmed to the world that Windows 7 will hit general availability October 22nd, a date in which we've all been waiting for.
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6.6.2009 Google to buy Opera?
"Take that, IE 7"
Google may soon announce its acquisition of browser firm Opera, if rumour is to be believed.
Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and ex-Yahoo! Europe president, has revealed in his personal blog, Kelblog, that a "usually well informed source" has told him the buy is on the cards.
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17.12.2005 Why Would Microsoft Buy Opera?
Reports are propagating that Microsoft has bought browser maker Opera Software. According to at least one publication, however, Opera representatives say the rumors are untrue, just as the rumors about Google buying Opera that supposedly circulated last week were also unfounded.
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25.12.2005 If You Were Bill Gates, What Would You Buy Next?
If Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave you a blank check and asked you to spend it in ways that would improve Microsoft's bottom line, what would you do with it? We're not talking planes, trains and automobiles here; we're talking tech investments. We know Microsoft technical evangelist
Robert Scoble would go Web 2.0-crazy with his mad money. But what about you?
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4.2.2006 Microsoft To Buy Logitech?
There's loud whispers in the business community that Logitech, makers of (among other things) fine console and PC gaming peripherals, are about to be bought out by Microsoft.
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10.1.2008 Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo Now?
Absolutely. Microsoft should yell "Yahoo!" one more time.
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11.10.2008 Microsoft in talks to buy Softricity
Microsoft is in talks to buy application virtualisation software vendor Softricity of Boston, CRN has learned.
"It's coming down to the final stretches," said one source close to Microsoft who is familiar with the discussions. "It's not a done deal yet but it's just last minute haggling kind of stuff."
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19.5.2006 Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6 billion
Microsoft plans to acquire aQuantive, a digital marketing services agency, for around $6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it announced Friday.
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19.5.2007 Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion
Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into an agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun.
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20.4.2009 Microsoft in pole position to buy AOL
Search giant Yahoo's decision not to buy AOL has left Microsoft as the most likely candidate to buy the troubled outfit.
Vole wants AOL to sink Google and is widely seen as the main candidate to buy the outfit. Google wants AOL to give it a portal to increase its advertising potential. At the moment, it makes more than 10 per cent of its revenues out of AOL.
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Want In on the Live Messenger Beta? Buy It On eBay
If you just can't wait for a private invite into the Windows Live Messenger beta, you now have another alternative:
Buy an invite on eBay. We, ourselves, have seen lots of folks offering all over the Web free invites for Microsoft's next-generation consumer instant-messaging client. Maybe we'll even get one in our Christmas stockings….
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22.12.2005 Google 'looking to buy' Microsoft Office clone
Google is hoping to launch an office software suite that mimics Microsoft Office, according to the developer of the software.
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13.12.2006 Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
In its race to become the runner-up on the search engine and online advertising markets, Microsoft is about to give Google a little something to chew on.
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1.2.2008 10 reasons to buy new hardware now - during a recession
TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware.
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20.1.2009 AMD Gains Antitrust Approval to Buy ATI
Advanced Micro Devices said yesterday it has gained approval from key U.S., Canadian, and German antitrust regulators for its $5.4 billion plan to buy Canadian chip set developer ATI Technologies.
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7.9.2006 Microsoft Boosts Speech/Voice Capabilities With Tellme Buy
Microsoft took another step toward rounding out its unified communications vision Wednesday with a deal to acquire voice/speech services player Tellme Networks.
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15.3.2007 Leaked Best-Buy Inventory Screens - Multi-Touch MacBook Pros on the Way?
Following reports that three new MacBook Pro models had been spotted in Best Buy's inventory, screenshots are now available to back that story up.
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3.2.2008 Buy Windows 7 Ultimate for Just $99.99, Home Premium for Just $49.99
While the Windows 7 SKU official pricing is nothing short of being on par with that of Windows Vista's editions, with the exception of Home Premium, Microsoft does have something special in stores for consumers.
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25.6.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009Microsoft to Invest $1.7
Billion in India
With plans to double its
workforce in India over the
next four years to 3,000,
Microsoft on Wednesday said it
would pump $1.7 billion into
the country to develop new
facilities for research and
development. A special version
of Windows for India will also
be released in nine Indian
languages...
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08.12.2005Google launches Google Apps reseller program
Google has launched their GAPE (Google Apps Premiere Edition) reseller program on Wednesday, which is one step ahead from its current Google Docs
offerings. From the end of March, authorized resellers will be able to sell, customize and support premium versions of Google Apps, which includes
word processing, spreadsheets, calendars and email. Resellers will be able to buy the Premiere Edition at a 20% discount and keep the recurring
revenue for the lifetime of their customer relationship.The search leader already offers a basic package of Google Apps for free to consumers.
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15.01.2009Google India could be ordered to break one blogger's anonymity
Construction equipment company Gremach Infrastructure Equipments and Projects Ltd. demanded in High Court in Mumbai, India that Google India disclose
the identity of "Toxic Writer," a blogger who made defamatory remarks about the company's mining project in Mozambique...
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16.08.2008Intel Locks Out Reseller Web Page
DailyTech previously reported
Intel officially set the
launch date for its
Penryn-based quad-core Intel
Xeon processors for November
11. The date popped up on
Intels reseller webpage and
was fully accessible to the
public. However, since the
original article the page is
no longer available for public
viewing.
It would appear someone
accidentally made the web page
available to the public,
unintentionally. Trying to
access the link now sends you
to a
login page
for resellers only “
locked away in the depths of
Intels secret reseller
society.
Intel Insiders kindly
pointed out something we
failed to mention “ November
11 is a Sunday. Intel
typically announces products
on a Monday at midnight EST.
However, the posted dates
stated the date for a price
move. There are a couple
plausible scenarios for the
November 11 date, because it
is on the reseller webpage. ..
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18.08.2007Microsoft India centre working on Windows 7
Designers and engineers at
Microsoft R&D centre in India
have a new mandate for
development of Windows 7, the
next generation operating
system from Microsoft
Corporation, slated for
release in 2009-10.
This new operating
system will have in-built
features to address
networking-related issues,
virtualisation that helps
create separate machines
within a PC and various
plug-ins for accessories for
the new OS.
The Senior Vice-President,
Windows Core Operating System
Division, Mr Jon DeVaan, said
they have created the
necessary platform for
development work in India
following a recent meeting of
the Windows 7 group at
Redmond, the Microsoft
headquarters. This team headed
by Mr Sunil Bansali, and
comprising members of the
Windows and Windows Live
development teams, has now
been given the task of working
on the next generation
operating system.
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04.08.2007South African to replace Robinson at Microsoft
Microsoft New Zealand is importing a South African as its new leader.
Kevin Ackhurst is joining the company as its country
manager on 22 October, replacing Helen Robinson, who
resigned just over
two weeks ago.
Ackhurst joins Microsofts local subsidiary directly from the companys corporate headquarters in Redmond, where
he is currently worldwide general manager of Operations and Business Strategy for Public Sector.
Ackhurst has worked at Microsoft
since 1997 and first joined the companys South African subsidiary in its consulting services.
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09.10.2007How To choose a stand-out company name
Technology firms find themselves swimming in a sea of generic names which all too often contain such words as soft, net, micro, technologies and
solutions. So how can companies differentiate themselves when they're part of this environment, and how can they build a brand and a culture around
their name? Reseller News spoke to a range of industry players about overcoming blandness and adding an X Factor to their moniker.
Chillisoft managing director Geoff Cossey says he chose has company's name to brand it as fun and to build marketing around it.
œWe wanted something slightly different. There are so many names that are meaningless to most people, like Greek names or acronyms, and we wanted
something memorable that would give us opportunity for marketing tools around the name.
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20.11.2007Microsoft charged for evading tax in India
Thanks to prince_niceguy for the news tip.
Microsoft has been charged Rs 256 ($57 million) in taxes and penalties by the service
tax department in India.
The department found that Microsoft India's Gurgoan unit carried out marketing activities for its India
operations and not for the Singapore unit as it had claimed. "We have finalised the notices which would be served very soon. The tax evasion pertains
to the period from June 19, 2006 to December 12, 2007," a senior service tax official said.
Microsoft officials said they had
not received any
official communication from the tax department regarding the matter.
This is the second time Microsoft India have been in trouble with the
service tax department of India. In a previous case Microsoft had to pay income tax generated from sale of software in India for six years from 1999
to 2005 that it owed.
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30.09.2008XP Starter Edition Travels to
India
Microsoft is bringing Windows
XP Starter Edition to India,
where it will offer the
stripped down operating system
in English for the first time.
The low-cost version of XP
drops home networking and
limits the number of programs
that can be opened
simultaneously...
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24.09.2005HP to sell Linux laptops and PCs
HP is planning to introduce desktop and laptop computers that come with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop operating system preinstalled.
Systems are scheduled to start shipping worldwide in select geographies in the second quarter of this year, according to a source
familiar with the matter. The two vendors will jointly develop software drivers and provide support to end-users.
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18.03.2008Samsung, Microsoft in talks to speed up SSDs on Vista
Samsung isn't just pushing the envelope in storage capacity of SSDs (solid-state drives), it is also working with software makers to boost SSD
performance on operating systems.
The company on Wednesday said it was in talks with Microsoft to improve the performance of SSDs
on the Windows OS.
The speed and way in which SSDs fetch and cache data are different than hard drives, said Michael Wang, flash
marketing manager at Sun. Samsung hopes to work with Microsoft to boost SSD performance on Windows by discovering optimal packet sizes for data
transfers and the best ways to read and write files, for example.
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07.08.2008Apple threatens Australian resellers: don't talk about iPhone
Apple has threatened its "Premium Resellers" with losing their accreditation if they speak to customers about the iPhone, which is not yet
officially available in Australia.
"Under NO CIRCUMSTANCE is anyone to offer any form of support to customers for the iPhone,
either inside or outside of business hours," one reseller told its staff in an email.
"Doing so is in breach of our Apple
Premium Reseller agreement.
The reseller said staff could be subjected to disciplinary action "including termination" if they
helped a customer with an iPhone, even in their private time.
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29.11.2007Lab test: Four Dell and HP workstations
There was a time when workstations occupied a highly competitive niche in the hardware market. In those days, some 10 years ago, companies such as Sun
Microsystems, SGI, IBM, HP, and Dell competed fiercely to deliver the top desktop systems characterised by powerful graphics and processing engines.
An added element to this competition was the vendors' reliance on vastly different processor architectures to deliver the knockout performance. A
decade later, the market segment is significantly different.
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20.05.2008India wants to develop a $10 laptop for students
Even the $100 laptop long envisioned by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) seems pricey in contrast to a $10 laptop announced this week in India...
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30.07.2008The strange afterlife of AltaVista
Shane Schick: When the Microsoft bid for Yahoo broke a week ago, I decided to brave the snowstorm that had blanketed Toronto to go talk about the
implications on CBC Newsworld. They asked the standard questions: Why Microsoft was making this move, what would it mean for the search market, and so
on. I knew in advance what the last question would be, but I surprised myself with the answer.
"So do you think this will be
good or bad for customers?" the host asked.
"Well, if you think about it, 10 years ago the big names in search were Yahoo and
AltaVista," I began.
"Alta who?" the host said, chuckling.
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12.02.2008Sun builds Constellation of petascale supercomputing
Sun Microsystems Inc. is releasing a new high-performance computing (HPC) system that it said has the potential to create one of the largest
supercomputers on the planet, reaching petascale.
Sun calls it the Constellation System. It's built on mainstream operating
systems and hardware, but uses clusters and a new storage system, the Sun StorageTek 5800. That system can hold up to half a petabyte of storage per
rack.
Sun's HPC cluster architecture uses chips from Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and its own UltraSparc chips, and
it supports Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems. Each chassis can hold up to 48 blades. Sun also designed this system with InfiniBand
switches.
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13.11.20072007 to 2027: The shapes of things to come in IT
Gerald M. Weinberg: The one thing I've learned from a half-century in the computer industry is that we can predict anything but the future. In other
words, I predict that the future will surprise us, so to prepare for the future, we'd better stay adaptable.
Though the question
"What's coming?" seems to imply change, I feel somewhat safer predicting certain things that won't change in the next 50 years because they
haven't changed in the past 50. First and foremost, human beings won't change. They'll continue to blunder around emotionally, failing to do what
they know they ought to do when building and supporting computer systems. For that reason, the need for effective managers will not change, but it
will grow more critical.
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01.10.2007OpenDocument Gains Ground in
Belgium, India
OpenDocument made additional
strides in establishing itself
this week, as the Belgian
government certified the OASIS
format as the only acceptable
standard for internal
documents. In addition,
OpenDocument backers are
promoting the format in India
at the IIT Delhi conference...
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26.06.20065 Years Later, Microsoft IPTV Coming to India
At a press event in Mumbai, India today, Microsoft announced an expanded partnership with India's Reliance Communications Ltd. to bring IPTV service
to the country by March 2008. The launch would come over five years after the companies first joined up...
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06.11.2007HP shows off future printing technologies
Hewlett-Packard gave a look into future printing technologies, introducing a new inkjet printer that prints thousands of pages per minute and ink that
retains its shine even when exposed to extreme elements.
HP's water-based Latex Ink is specially formulated to embed in a
surface and become part of a media print, said Stephen Nigro, senior vice president of HP's graphics and imaging business. HP's Latex Ink can
withstand snow and rain and is useful for large-format media used on billboards and outdoor signs.
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