Microsoft Offers Choice of Browsers to Satisfy EU (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft has offered to provide a choice of Web browsers with its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to ease concerns of competition regulators in the European Union, the EU's competition authority confirmed Friday.
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Microsoft down on weak fourth quarter (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft's share price shed more than eight percent on Wall Street on Friday after the US software giant's fourth-quarter earnings fell short of expectations.
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Analysts: Microsoft Q4 Results Show Competitive Pressure (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's disappointing earnings for the past quarter point to signs of damage from competitive and global economic challenges that the software vendor had until recently largely deflected, analysts said.
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Palm Pre reconnects with estranged iTunes (AP)
AP - Palm's Pre smart phone just can't stay away from Apple's iTunes software.
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New Software Contract Principles Prompt Worries (PC World)
PC World - IT vendors and tech industry groups say a new set of legal principles for software contracts developed by the American Law Institute (ALI) could stifle innovation and raise the cost of software, even though they are meant to protect consumers.
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Microsoft Tweaks Ad after Apple Complains (PC World)
PC World - Remember last week when Microsoft was so ecstatic about Apple's complaints over the laptop hunter ads? Well, the software maker may have been overjoyed that it finally agitated its rival, but Redmond has quietly complied with Apple's complaints, according to AdvertisingAge. The Mac maker's beef was the fact that Microsoft's laptop hunter campaign kept saying Macbooks carried a price tag of $2000 or more, even though Apple recently improved the specs and lowered costs across its laptop line.
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Microsoft Reports Weak Windows Sales as Profits Plunge (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Sales of the Windows operating system fell 29 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft reported Thursday. The news sent the company's stock down nearly nine percent at noon Eastern time Friday.
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Microsoft: GPL Linux Code Release Not Due to Violation (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft released set of Linux drivers for its Hyper-V software under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) not because of "perceived obligations" to that license but because it is the preferred license of the Linux community and would benefit both Microsoft customers and users of Linux, according to a company executive.
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Palm lobs another volley at Apple in smartphone war (Reuters)
Reuters - Palm Inc has fired another volley at Apple Inc in their smartphone war, as the two rivals tussle over whether iTunes should be compatible with Palm's new Pre smartphone.
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Microsoft shares slip on disappointing results (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 9 percent on Friday, as the company's weaker-than-expected results contradicted Wall Street's belief that the worst is over for the technology sector.
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Collaboration Tools Can Cut Costs, Boost Productivity (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - At a time when enterprise software investments are trending town, companies may not be looking to invest in unified communications and collaboration tools.
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Spring may be coming soon for Microsoft's Azure (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Java developers fond of the popular Spring Framework might gain an interesting deployment option -- the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform -- if an alliance can emerge between Spring proponents and Microsoft.
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Several Chinese Android Phones Due in Europe This Year (PC World)
PC World - At least three Chinese companies have put Google's Android operating system on mobile phones they say will launch in Europe this year.
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On the Call: Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell (AP)
AP - With businesses cutting back on technology spending and consumers favoring low-end notebooks, the average amount Microsoft Corp. brings in from selling a copy of its Windows software has fallen.
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Soft PC sales send Microsoft profit down 29 pct (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its profit in the last quarter plunged 29 percent because of weak computer sales, ending a fiscal year in which the software maker's revenue fell for the first time since the company went public in 1986.
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Microsoft, Intel Design Windows 7 to Be Speedy (PC World)
PC World - Collaboration with Microsoft could allow the software giant's upcoming Windows 7 OS to take advantage of multithreaded and multicore Intel chips for faster application performance, according to an Intel official.
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CA 2Q profit nearly flat, but outlook lifts shares (AP)
AP - Business management software company CA Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit was nearly flat as revenue edged lower. But the company forecast fiscal 2010 sales at the high end of its prior outlook, sending shares up nearly 5 percent in after-hours trading.
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Android's Next Stop: High-Tech Remotes For Your Home (PC World)
PC World - Get ready for more Google in your life. A slew of household gadgets based on the company's Android operating system will debut within the next five months, a new report says, including several high-tech remote controls for your home.
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Oracle Buys Data-integration Specialist (PC World)
PC World - Oracle on Thursday said it is buying GoldenGate Software, a San Francisco maker of data integration tools, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close later this year.
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Apple Drops Threats Against iTunes Jailbreaking (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple has backed down from threatening legal action against BluWiki, a hosting Web site that discussed how users could circumvent Apple's iTunes software. Apple and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit public-interest group based in San Francisco, have stopped legal proceedings.
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