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Why Microsoft's IE 9 will frustrate standards fansIt's the attitude that led to COM and DCOM instead of using Corba and that saw Microsoft "tune" Java and distribute a version not compatible with Sun Microsystems' implementation and that landed the company in a $1bn legal fight. Now... In this article: Acid3, JavaScript, Firefox, Internet Explorer, WebKit, Windows Live, Sun Microsystems, and Texas Instruments |
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Yahoo! News | October 28, 2009
Microsoft extends Windows 7 and Azure to open source developers (InfoWorld)
...to your My Yahoo! Microsoft will unveil on Wednesday several open source initiatives to boost interoperability between Microsoft technologies, such as Windows 7, Windows Azure, and Silverlight, and open source technologies, including...
In this article: Eclipse, Java, PHP, Silverlight, InfoWorld, Web applications, and Windows SDK
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Java, BlackBerry Desktop Get Security Bug Fixes (PC World)
...worldwide, so Sun's updates are important. Hackers have increasingly turned to third party software such as Java as Microsoft has made it harder to attack the core Windows operating system. There is just one BlackBerry bug fix. The...
In this article: BlackBerry, Java, Research In Motion, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo
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Computer World | November 09, 2009
Microsoft buys Teamprise bridge between Java and .Net developers
...developers. ... If you're building [in] Java today and want to share assets with Visual Studio developers, you'll do that with the Teamprise technologies," said Dave Mendlen, Microsoft's senior director of development marketing. [ InfoWorld's...
In this article: Java, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Linux, Unix, Software development, and Team Foundation Server
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Microsoft buys bridge between Java and .Net developers (InfoWorld)
Microsoft buys bridge between Java and . Net developers (InfoWorld) Today In Tech > Video: Vizio 47-Inch LCD By Paul Krill - Mon Nov 9, 2009 7:30AM EST Add articles about technology to your My Yahoo! Microsoft plans to acquire...
In this article: Java, Visual Studio, Customer, Software development, Team Foundation Server, Eclipse, Unix, and Linux
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CNET News.com | October 27, 2009
Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option
...Google App Engine, a computing foundation that can run Java or Python programs on Google's own BigTable database technology, and Microsoft's Azure, which will offer access to Windows servers in the cloud when it formally launches in...
In this article: MySQL, Amazon, Cloud computing, Linux, Sun Microsystems, Google, and Python
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eWEEK Technology News | November 18, 2009
Microsoft Plans to Open C#, Visual Basic Compilers
While Google is developing new programming languages such as its Go general purpose language and Noop Java-like language, Microsoft is adding functionality to Visual Basic and C# to continue to modernize those foundational technologies.
In this article: Visual Basic, Java, All rights reserved, Trademark, Go, Web-based, Silver, and Google
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The Register | November 17, 2009
Microsoft delivers 'almost ready' Azure cloud
...Java, and Ruby with a Fast CGI bridge and SDKs. Also, the storage mechanism underwent a massive change, as Microsoft decided to give developers the familiarly of SQL Server, only in the cloud. Ozzie noted Tuesday Azure now offers features for...
In this article: Ray Ozzie, Steve Ballmer, Dublin, Ruby, PHP, Visual Studio, and Java
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, ) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.
The company was founded in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems. Many of its products have achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. One commentator notes that Microsoft's original mission was "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software." Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV. The company's initial public stock offering (IPO) was in 1986; the ensuing rise of the company's stock price has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.*
- Name:
- Microsoft Corporation
- Type:
- NASDAQ: MSFT
- Headquarters:
- Redmond, Washington
- Location:
- Redmond, Washington, United States
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Founded:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- MSFT
- Industry:
- Consumer Electronics
- Computer software
- CEO:
- Steve Ballmer
- Products:
- Revenue:
- $60.420 billion (2008)
- Operating Income:
- $22.492 billion (2008)
- Net Income:
- $17.681 billion (2008)
- Assets:
- US$ 77.888 billion )
- Equity:
- US$ 39.558 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 89,809 in 105 countries (2008)
- Motto:
- Your potential. Our passion.
- Market Cap:
- US$ 169.72 billion
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