Microsoft's sales show fallout of recession (AP)
AP - The link between Microsoft Corp.'s fortune and the health of the personal computer market has rarely been clearer than in the software maker's fiscal third quarter.
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Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying (AP)
AP - Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market آ— software that allows you to copy a film without paying for it.
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Microsoft still sees potential in Yahoo partnership (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. software company Microsoft still sees value in a potential partnership with Yahoo
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Microsoft Still Sees Potential in Yahoo Partnership (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - U.S. software company Microsoft still sees value in a potential partnership with Yahoo.
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Conficker Hype a 'problem,' Says FBI Cyber-chief (PC World)
PC World - Mainstream media hype leading up to the Conficker worm's April 1 software update may have distracted people from legitimate cyber threats, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's head of cyber security said Thursday.
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Microsoft cuts costs, says Windows 7 on track (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's quarterly profit fell 32 percent, but its shares rose as investors welcomed continuing efforts to cut costs and news that the release of its Windows 7 operating system is on track.
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Apple, Bring Back the Butterfly Keyboard for Netbooks (PC World)
PC World - There goes Apple, trash-talking netbooks again. Tim Cook, the companyأ¢آ€آ™s chief operating officer, had harsh words yesterday for the current crop of inexpensive mini-notebooks, calling them أ¢آ€آœjunkyأ¢آ€آ with cramped keyboards and bad software. أ¢آ€آœItأ¢آ€آ™s a stretch to call them a personal computer,أ¢آ€آ he said.
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RealNetworks' RealDVD DVD Ripper Goes to Court (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Hollywood's leading studios and RealNetworks will square off in a San Francisco district court on Friday, as a judge attempts to determine whether RealNetworks violated the terms of the licensing agreement covering the digital-rights-management protocols used by DVDs with its RealDVD software.
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Are Price Hikes in Store for Sun Software Support? (PC World)
PC World - Oracle's pending purchase of Sun Microsystems may not have an immediate effect on what customers currently pay to use Sun software, but changes are likely coming, observers said this week.
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Vendors Release Password Cracking, Management Tools (PC World)
PC World - As full-disk encryption becomes increasingly used to protect data, new software tools that can recover lost passwords or change forgotten ones are being released.
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Researchers Show How to Take Control of Windows 7 (PC World)
PC World - Security researchers demonstrated how to take control of a computer running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Dubai on Thursday.
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VMware software sales fall (Reuters)
Reuters - Business software maker VMware Inc warned that its revenue would dramatically miss Wall Street forecasts due to the weak economy and a new product launch, sending its shares down 14 percent.
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Microsoft judge says oversight process at "much better place" (Reuters)
Reuters - The judge overseeing Microsoft's antitrust settlement extended her monitoring of the software giant by 18 months on Wednesday, while noting the oversight was at a "much better place" than a few months ago.
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Microsoft Judge: Process at 'Much Better Place' (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The judge overseeing Microsoft's antitrust settlement extended her monitoring of the software giant by 18 months on Wednesday, while noting the oversight was at a "much better place" than a few months ago.
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VMware Is Setting the Stage for a Data-Center Revolution (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - VMware's just-launched operating system for building the internal cloud comes with big promises, but will the virtual-solutions company be able to deliver?
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Are We Already Losing the Cyber War? (PC World)
PC World - Wouldn't it be great to read on Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, reports that American cyber spies have penetrated the Chinese electric grid and may have left software behind that would allow Washington to plunge the People's Republic into darkness?
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Pay-as-you-go a Way Around Piracy, Microsoft Says (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft could reduce losses from software piracy by expanding pay-as-you-go plans like those it has tested in developing countries, a company executive said Wednesday.
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India's Wipro reports 4 pct rise in Q4 profit (AFP)
AFP - Wipro Ltd, India's third-biggest software company, on Wednesday reported a four percent rise in net profit ending March, beating market expectations.
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Virtualization Is 'the New Mainframe,' VMware Says (PC World)
PC World - VMware launched an upgrade to its core software platform on Tuesday with the message that virtualization is ready to run any class of enterprise application, no matter how large.
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Lawmakers to re-examine Internet-sharing software (AP)
AP - A House committee is reopening its investigation of Internet services that let computer users distribute music and movies online amid reports the same software was exploited to gain unauthorized access to government and private data.
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