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...is beneficial to consumers. It's now up to a federal court in San Francisco to determine whether the Max Memory-crippling Xbox update constitutes unlawful anti-competitive behavior on the part of Microsoft. The last time Datel went to...

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...off Tuesday night. In the wide-ranging conversation, Benioff discussed what MC Hammer taught him about business, why he craves Microsoft's validation and the reason San Francisco should get its head out of the clouds. For this and more...

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...San Francisco Business Times Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine came close to capturing 10 percent of the search market in October, according to numbers from internet measurement firm ComScore Inc. Over the last few months, the...

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...operating system in the equation. To demonstrate how far Windows Azure has come, Microsoft enlisted the aid of some traditional antagonists: Silicon Valley startups and the federal government. San Francisco-based Automattic Inc. is...

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...on behalf of the UK-based peripheral-maker. Submitted late Friday, the suit accuses Microsoft of violating antitrust laws by requiring 360 owners to only buy Microsoft-made accessories. It asserts that doing so is an illegal practice,...

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...with the game console. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, says Microsoft is unfairly favoring its own Xbox 360 accessories by disabling the functionality of competing technologies. Microsoft announced last...

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...Corp eye web pact - By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York - Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid...

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...Aon, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Rexel Group. They join existing customers, such as Blockbuster, Coca-Cola and Autodesk as those paying Microsoft to run hosted versions of its products. Microsoft formally launched Microsoft Online at a...

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...might make it easier to stumble upon the previews. The hover feature was developed by the San Francisco-based team that Microsoft acquired as part of last year's acquisition of Powerset. Powerset, which developed a semantic search...

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