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Microsoft's cloud computing system is growing up

for software makers to build different versions of the same product for a PC and a mobile phone, for example, all accessing the same data. SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers ...

From JESSICA MINTZ ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Ray Ozzie,  Amazon.com,  IBM

Microsoft to start charging for access to cloud computing system Windows Azure in February

Microsoft's cloud computing system is growing up SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Now, the company is fighting to ...

From JESSICA MINTZ, Simple Thoughts,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  IBM,  Oracle,  Ray Ozzie

Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy. In a memo sent to employees, Jody Allen, Paul Allen's sister and the CEO of his investment firm ...

From JESSICA MINTZ, AZ Central.com,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Paul Allen,  Bill Gates,  Seattle Seahawks,  America Online

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen treated for lymphoma

M icrosoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy. In a memo sent to employees, Jody Allen, Paul Allen's sister and the CEO of his investment firm Vulcan Inc., ...

From JESSICA MINTZ, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul Allen,  Microsoft Corporation,  Bill Gates,  Western Conference,  Los Angeles Lakers

Vulcan's Allen faces second cancer fight

MICROSOFT Corp co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy. In a memo sent to employees, Jody Allen, Paul Allen's sister and the CEO of his investment firm Vulcan Inc, ...

From JESSICA MINTZ, Shanghai Daily,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul Allen,  Microsoft Corporation,  Bill Gates

Dell makes new green move with bamboo packaging

SEATTLE (AP) -- Bamboo has sprouted all over. It's being used everywhere from floorboards to tableware to inline skates and T-shirts, as consumers increasingly seek out products considered gentler on the Earth. Now, computer maker Dell Inc. is using ...

From JESSICA MINTZ, Buffalo News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dell, Inc.

Microsoft brings more Web data to Bing results

SEATTLE — Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google. Traditionally, search engines from Google Inc. and others ...

From JESSICA MINTZ ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Yahoo!

Dell smartphone to debut in China, Brazil

to have some control over the way the phone works. It chose the open-source Android system because it gives Dell many ways to customize the software — but didn't rule out making phones that run Microsoft's Windows Mobile. SEATTLE — Dell is officially ...

From JESSICA MINTZ ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Hewlett-Packard,  Federal Communications Commission

Microsoft tweaks Bing search site, asks WolframAlpha to do math, count calories

SEATTLE — Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google. Traditionally, search engines from Google Inc. and others ...

From JESSICA MINTZ, Simple Thoughts,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  American Association of Advertising Agencies

Windows 7 Gets a Bye on Latest Patch Tuesday

As usual, Microsoft pushed out a set of bug fixes for Windows on the second Tuesday of the month, but none of the security fixes were aimed at Windows 7, it's newest operating system. That may not last for long -- "Attackers will take more time to ...

From JESSICA MINTZ, TechNewsWorld,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Symantec,  Intel

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