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Started by the young Bill Gates, a Harvard University drop-out and honourary Knight in England, Microsoft makes the world's most shouted at operating system - Windows. Windows went from a humble project to being the cause of frustration in everything from desktops to mobile. Currently Microsoft is busy chasing everything traditional rival and once-underdog Apple gets up to, like releasing ham-fisted attempts at MP3 players and promising tablet computers that never materialise. It is currently headed up by the shy and retiring Steve Ballmer, who famously monkey-danced at conferences and lobbed chairs around his office.
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| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSFT | Microsoft | 21:00 GMT | 34.87 | +0.79 | +2.32% | 60674268 | 17.59 | 1.938 | 291.2B |
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Firefox about to lose the Ubuntu Linux vote
The long love affair between Linux users and Firefox appears to be over as the developers of Ubuntu talk about dropping the browser and replacing it with Chromium. -
Gates is now the richest man. Again
Meanwhile, according to Mashable, after a recent stock surge, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is once again the world's richest man. He is now worth $72.1 billion and about $550 million ahead of Slim. -
IBM kills off Lotus 1-2-3
In early 1983, Lotus 1-2-3 put PCs on everyone's desk. It was far faster than other attempts such as SuperCalc and Microsoft's first spreadsheet, MultiPlan and with the opening of the Intel architecture and MS-DOS to IBM PC clones, Lotus 1-2-3 became the essential application for the 1980s PC revolu -
Page slams Microsoft for milking Google
So after saying something like that, the very last thing you would expect is for him to go on the attack. The next thing he did is wade into Microsoft for giving its Outlook.com users the ability to log into Google Chat, but didn't do the reverse, giving Google Chat users access to Outlook users. -
Intel in holding pattern for Ultrabooks
According to Barrons, Joseph Moore, for it was he, rated Intel as an underweight and set a $20 price target for its shares, saying that the outfit could hold its own against competitors in the battle for tablets based on Microsoft's Windows 8. -
Google asks Microsoft to kill WP8 YouTube app
Google wants Microsoft to kill its homebrew YouTube app for Windows Phone 8. The search giant sent a cease and desist letter to Microsoft earlier this week, asking it to remove the app from the Windows Phone Store and disable existing copies by May 22, reports | Wired. -
Microsoft reads your Skype messages
A German security outfit claims it has evidence that Microsoft is reading user Skype messages. -
Windows Blue will be a free update
Microsoft has announced that its coming Windows Blue, or Windows 8.1, will be delivered as a free update through the operating system's app store. -
Foundem: Google EU antitrust proposals unacceptable
British price comparison website Foundem, which has been one company leading the charge accusing Google of antitrust practices in the EU - with a little help from the Microsoft backed ICOMP - has urged the EC to reject Google's appeasement proposals. -
Google ups its free storage offering
This makes Google services the most generous storage capacity of any player in the free online storage game. The nearest rival, Dropbox, currently starts free subscribers at 2GB, Microsoft SkyDrive users get 7GB, and Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud Storage, and SugarSync offer 5GB for free. -
Microsoft has a gutsful of Windows 8 bashing
Software giant Microsoft appears to have finally lost its rag over the large number of critics bashing its flagship Windows 8. -
Apple's secret sauce boiled dry
More figures are proving to a shell shocked Appleloving press that the overly hyped iPhone is slowly dying and is set to fall behind Microsoft. -
Microsoft whistleblower suggests Windows losing to Linux
Microsoft's kernel is falling behind Linux because of a cultural problem at the Volehill of Redmond, claims one of its developers. -
Obama plans internet wiretapping law
If he succeeds, the FBI and other agencies will easily be able to snoop on voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) services such as those offered by Microsoft's Skype and real-time chat services. -
Fallout of Apache backdoor spreads
Those who use Internet Explorer or Firefox on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or 7 are the only ones who get redirected to sites hosting Blackhole, but Apple iOS users are also in danger as they get redirected to adult content sites that might be hosting malware. -
Chinese chip maker sold more than Intel and Qualcomm
Strategy Analytics reckons Nvidia led the non-iPad tablet market with 27 percent revenue share in 2012 having scored high-profile design wins in the Google Nexus 7 and the Microsoft Surface RT. -
Hotmail is officially dead
Microsoft has completed the transition from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million accounts. -
Nasty security bug spotted in IE8
Microsoft wants people to upgrade to IE10 but is having a job because IE8 is still fairly popular.
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