Microsoft Web Executive Leaves
Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft's online business group, a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its unprofitable Web business.
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15.2.2008 Microsoft says Zune executive to leave the company
A senior Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) executive who oversaw the launch of its Zune digital music player plans to leave the company, the world's largest software maker said on Wednesday.
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1.2.2007 MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media Network?
The LiveSide folks are reporting that MSN is looking to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network. We figured the MSN team would have to do some kind of rebranding, given that most of their properties are now operating under the "Live," rather than the MSN banner. LiveSide says the MSNers are looking to expand their franchises to include
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7.2.2006 Unpatched Microsoft Flaw Leaves IE6 at Risk
A vulnerability in as-yet unpatched Microsoft software poses a more severe threat to Internet Explorer 6 users than those on the next version of the browser, security vendor Symantec has warned.
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4.8.2008 MSN (may) becomes the MSN Media Network
Several sources have indicated to us that MSN plans to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network, whilst at the same time expanding its range of interactive and content rich services. As well as continuing to deliver content through MSN.com and MSN Music, the MSN Video team is evolving to include Movies and TV. Both these sites have already been revamped at the end of last year and feature show times and reviews as well as the latest entertainment news.
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8.2.2006 Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
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15.3.2007 Vista SP1 RC Leaves XP SP2 in the Dust, but What About XP SP3?
Although Microsoft has indicated a strong disapproval of benchmarking tests involving development milestones of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the temptation is simply too big to ignore.
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17.1.2008 Microsoft Makes Its Own Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2, Leaves XP SP3 Out
Ever since the advent of Window Vista, at the end of November 2006 for businesses and in January 2007 for the general public, Microsoft has virtually invited the comparison between the two operating systems.
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8.5.2008 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 MSN UK moves
After ten years at msn.co.uk, MSN has today changed its UK domain name to uk.msn.com, in an effort to make their site more accessible to users and increase loading efficiency. Consumers who use several MSN UK services such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger will benefit from easier transition across services without having to log in every time they move to another area of the site.
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6.12.2005 MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
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8.2.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Showusyourwow.msn.com is live
Microsoft launched a new site Show Us Your Wow moment. This is the next Vista looks like site launched as a promotion of Windows Vista.
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8.1.2007 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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MSN Answers a Million More Questions
The MSN Search group announced on its team blog last week that it has added "about a million" new Instant Answers (also known as "direct answers") to its service. The MSN folks are expanding MSN Instant Answer responses into new area, ranging from sports to weather to government officials.
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23.1.2006 Ex-MSNBC.com Head to Run MSN.com
Microsoft publicly announced Thursday that it had named John Nicol to head its MSN.com division, who pledged to push for increased investment and "and acquisitions if we need it," however he declined to be more specific.
Nicol had previously served as the head of MSNBC.com several years ago.
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12.2.2006 Microsoft to Rebrand Another MSN Property
Windows Live is part new services, part rebranded services. The latest MSN service slated to get the Live treatment is online shopping.
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19.3.2006 Microsoft Enhances MSN Spaces
Microsoft plans to give its MSN Spaces blog publishing and hosting service new social networking features, as well as support for the company's lightweight applications called Gadgets.
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7.6.2006 MSN Music Shutting Down For Zune
Microsoft has announced that its MSN Music service will be discontinued. The announcement comes a few days before the official US launch of Microsoft's Zune player and its associated Zune Marketplace.
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5.11.2006 How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
Until recently, when Microsoft execs have touted online services as key to the future of Microsoft, they've almost always meant Microsoft's "Live" services.
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8.12.2006 Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1
Thanks to hwh1226 for this downloads. Here are some Wonderful Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1.
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1.6.2007 MSN to Close Adult, Mature Groups
MSN plans to remove mature and adult rated communities from its MSN Groups service in late November. The groups would be moved to a third-party site, WorldGroups, which will handle all adult categorized groups for the service after the transition.
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Ballmer Beckons Users To MSN With Prizes
Lure 'em with prizes. It's an age-old marketing method, which is why some CEOs still swear by it. Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft who is said to be renowned for swearing, probably knows this all too well.
In a three-month promotion called "Search and Win", MSN Search has announced it will give away prizes and charitable donations to people who punch in the right keywords to its search bar. More than 1,200 pre-identified monikers have been chosen for February and more will be added for March and April. Choose the right one, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) says, and potential loot includes a Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ) gift certificate, a Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) LCD TV, or for the particularly lucky-cum-benevolent, a $10,000 cash award to a charity of choice.
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16.2.2006 MSN Butterfly to Flutter Its Wings for Charity
MSN is sponsoring "Under the Butterfly," a pilot program geared toward helping boys and girls across America while guiding customers to unique content across MSN channels.
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14.6.2006 MSN Launches Beta of Soapbox Today
MSN today announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service that aims to rival YouTube.
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20.9.2006 MSN Premium releases 9.5 version, not dead yet
Much to our surprise, MSN released version 9.5 of MSN Explorer/MSN Internet Access to subscribers as an update on Friday. The release appears to fix a number of issues surrounding upgrades to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger.
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21.11.2006 MSN Soapbox reopens with copyright filtering
Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues that have plagued other user-generated video sites such as YouTube.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft launches new-look MSN for mobile phones
Microsoft Corp. launched a redesigned MSN portal optimized for mobile phones on Sunday, stepping up its offering at a time when more powerful devices increase the demand for richer content on handsets.
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18.6.2007 MSN.com Kicks Off Live Earth Promotions
Microsofts MSN.com is kicking off its sponsorship of the upcoming Live Earth concert series with a host of promotions, including earth-friendly premiums and sweepstakes.
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29.6.2007Microsoft Web Executive Leaves
Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft's online
business group, a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its unprofitable Web business. Berkowitz will hand off his duties to three insiders:
Satya Nadella, currently in charge of search and search advertising engineering; Bill Veghte, a Windows marketing executive; and Brian McAndrews,
formerly the chief executive of online advertising group aQuantive, which Microsoft acquired last year. Berkowitz joined Microsoft in 2006 after
turning around Oakland, Calif.-based Ask.com, which, with related sites, was acquired by InterActiveCorp for $2.3 billion during his tenure as
chief executive; no reason was given for his departure, and he will stay through August to help with the transition.
Brought in to help
turn around Microsoft's own Web business, Berkowitz was charged with expanding the audience on its disparate MSN and Windows Live sites - making
them more attractive to advertisers - and forging new business relationships, such as the ad partnership announced last summer with social news site
Digg.com. With Berkowitz's departure, all advertising efforts will be consolidated under McAndrews. MSN head Joanne Bradford will report to
Nadella. Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said today's announcement is unrelated to the Yahoo negotiations.
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15.02.2008MSN Head Steps Down from
Online Post
The executive heading up
Microsoft's MSN online
division is taking some time
off after 20 years with the
company. Senior Vice President
David Cole wrote in a memo on
Friday that he was leaving on
his own accord and will remain
in "a leadership role"
upon his return...
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21.02.2006Here comes MSN.com v11 new look, hotmail integration, more
Looks like well be seeing a new MSN.com homepage soon,
even though it leaves Mini-Microsoft cold:
And some of the projects he's (ed: Kevin Johnson)
interested in and driving just leave me cold ( e.g., the upcoming MSN UI revamp. It puts the F in WTF )
The new home page
features Windows Live, with Hotmail, Messenger, and Spaces tabs on the front page, in a Vista Sidebar looking design. Heres the new page...
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28.07.2008Microsoft taps Yusuf Mehdi for MSN post
Microsoft named Yusuf Mehdi to run marketing for its online MSN and search properties, the company said Monday. His team runs marketing, product
management, strategic partnerships, and business development for the sites.
Mehdi reports to Chief Executive Steve Ballmer until
a new executive is named to run Microsoft's overall online services group, the company said. Jon Tinter of the MSN group and Brad Goldberg of the
search group report to Mehdi.
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30.09.2008Former Earthlink chief leaves Helio CEO post
Mobile virtual network operator Helio has announced that former SK Telecom CEO Wohnee Sull will take over as its chief executive...
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30.01.2008Zune Executive Leaves Microsoft
Microsoft said Wednesday that
the head of its Zune music
player division will be
leaving the company to pursue
personal interests. Bryan Lee
will be replaced by J Allard,
who recently oversaw the
company's Xbox business...
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01.02.2007MSN and Variety Forge Distribution Relationship
MSN is joining forces with Variety.com to bring even more entertainment information to the sites visitors. The distribution relationship will provide
Variety with an avenue for reaching an even wider global audience and at the same time offer MSN a broader range of information on television, movies,
music and Internet deals.
For decades, Variety has set the standard in reporting on the entertainment industry, said Jeff
Dossett, executive producer and general manager for MSN. Weve seen a growing appetite on MSN for Hollywood information, and this collaboration will
help us continue to offer our audience the best source for whats happening in the entertainment industry.
Variety has long
provided the best source of information to meet the needs of entertainment industry professionals. Variety.com also allows us to provide the kind of
insider insights and scoops that the broader entertainment enthusiast wants, said Charlie Koones, president and publisher of Variety. Our
distribution partnership with MSN will allow their users to enjoy the kind of in-depth entertainment coverage only Variety can provide...
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19.09.2007MSN Launches Green Channel
Today MSN added a new channel to its online information and entertainment network called MSN Green a one-stop online resource for the latest
environmental news, exploring the issues and taking action. MSN has teamed up with some of the leading media and environmental sources, MSNBC, Hearst
Magazines (The Daily Green), Conservation International, Environmental Defense, Grist.org, TreeHugger.com and StopGlobalWarming.org, to offer the new
channel, located at
http://green.msn.com.
MSN Green will provide consumers
with environmental information, including articles developed by popular online publications and Web sites, along with multimedia, interactive features
and other content compiled from MSN Lifestyle, MSN Money, MSN Autos, MSN Travel, and the networks other information and entertainment channels.
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30.10.2007MSN Moves to Create Entertainment Web Sites
Can two of Hollywoods most innovative executives help MSN become a player in advertiser-supported entertainment on the Web? MSN, the Microsoft portal,
is betting millions of dollars that the answer is yes.
MSN said Tuesday that it had signed an agreement with BermanBraun, a Los
Angeles production company founded in March 2007 by Gail Berman, formerly a top executive at Paramount Pictures and Fox Broadcasting, and Lloyd Braun,
who previously led divisions of the Walt Disney Company and Yahoo.
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04.06.2008Adobe's PDF chief leaves for venture firm
John Brennan, the executive in charge of PDF, Flash, and other platform technologies at Adobe, has resigned to join Silver Lake, a private equirty
firm that has previously hired away the likes of Michael Capellas from HP and Ed Zander from Sun...
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15.03.2008MSN Strikes New Entertainment
Deals
Microsoft's MSN division
inked two new content deals on
Wednesday, including an
agreement to rebroadcast the
Bob Marley Festival in Miami
as well as a deal with
Billboard to run a music site
on the MSN Latino service...
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23.02.2006Yahoo stalwart Weiner leaves for two greener VC pastures
Adding another stone to the sinking ship of employee morale at Yahoo, long-time company stalwart Jeff Weiner has finally decided to leave, exiting to
take on the role of "executive in residence" at two venture capital firms...
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17.06.2008MSN Opens Up adCenter Testing
in US
Microsoft's MSN division is
looking for testers to try out
its new adCenter product in
the United States through a
recently launched pilot
program. Yusuf Mehdi, senior
vice president of MSN, asked
employees last week to invite
businesses who might be
interested in the service...
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12.10.2005Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video Betas Launched
The Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video
Betas Launched. Both MSN Video and
Soapbox on MSN Video Beta launched a next generation
version. The old
MSN Video will keep existing next to the new
MSN Video Beta.
Some of the Upgraded Features...
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25.04.2008MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media
Network?
The LiveSide folks are
reporting that MSN is looking
to relaunch itself as the MSN
Media Network.
We figured the MSN team
would have to do some kind of
rebranding, given that most of
their properties are now
operating under the "Live,"
rather than the MSN banner.
LiveSide says
the MSNers are looking to
expand their franchises to
include more movie and TV
content, as well as some kind
of podcasting service.
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08.02.2006MSN Joins Yahoo to Build Book
Search
Microsoft's MSN division is
following in Google's
footsteps with plans to roll
out a book search next year.
But to avoid the same legal
troubles that have plagued its
rival, MSN will adopt an
opt-in policy while focusing
on books in the public domain
and other print material not
under copyrights...
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27.10.2005MSN Admits to Sharing Search
Data
Following news that Google
refused to comply with a
subpoena requiring the company
to turn over search records
from its database, much
speculation swirled about the
response from rivals MSN and
Yahoo. MSN has broken its
silence and now acknowledges
that it did share search data,
but no personal information...
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23.01.2006MSN customised page gets beta update
We havent mentioned MSN for a while, mainly due to all the Microsoft-Yahoo talk thats been going on. However a few days ago the My MSN customised
homepage launched a new beta version, available at
http://next.my.msn.com.
So whats new?
Well the most striking thing youll notice when comparing it to the
old site is that it now
features the new-style header UI. This includes the drop down menu linking users to all the other MSN sites, as well as offering access to the main
Live Search verticals straight from the page.
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04.07.2008Does Live.com Mean the End of
MSN?
One of the most frequently
asked questions following the
Windows Live launch on Tuesday
has been: "What happens to
MSN?" Microsoft executives
were quick to reassure that
the online brand will survive.
But with Messenger, Search,
Mail and more becoming Windows
Live services, what's left
for MSN?..
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02.11.2005MSN Enhances Spaces, Start.com
MSN has been busy making enhancements to some of its services based on the requests of its users. Two popular features of the service, Spaces and its new Start.com testbed, were tweaked to allow greater customization and mobility. MSN Spaces users can now change the default color scheme to their liking...
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