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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 | 29.06 | -0.01 | -0.03% | 29508244 | 10.65 | 2.73 | 244.1B |
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Fake AV scammers dialed the wrong number
One of those fake AV scammers who pose as Microsoft agents probably wished they had checked who they were calling when they phoned a security researcher at home. -
Huawei wants EU to intervene in InterDigital patent spat
The commission is also looking into a complaint by Microsoft that Motorola Mobility and its new owner Google charge too much for the use of Motorola's patents. Apple is also joining in. -
Microsoft moans the most about piracy
Figures from Google show that Microsoft is the biggest complainer about copyright theft, a title that many would have expected to have gone to the RIAA. -
Microsoft's Ballmer undergoes rebirthing
The shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "there's a kind of hush" Ballmer says that his outfit is undergoing a rebirthing. -
Company comes up with ultra-accurate Kinect alternative
A new USB device, called The Leap, has just been released that puts Microsoft's Kinect back into the stone age. -
AMD releases R-Series
AMD has released its latest embedded APU range. -
Microsoft charges to remove crapware
Software giant Microsoft is offering to delete all the crapware which OEMs are forever installing on computers. -
Sapphire launches HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition card
Sapphire Technology has added a new model to its HD 7000 series. -
Hollywood gets into a scrap over Steve Jobs' corpse
Frankly, the only way they can make either movies is to set both films in outer space with Microsoft being portrayed as an evil empire using its ugly looking death star software to build an empire while Jobs leads a small but well designed rebellion. -
Ballmer is world's worse CEO - report
CommentThe shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "There's a kind of hush" Ballmer has been named one of the world's worst CEOs by the business rag Forbes. -
AMD's Trinity goes head to head with Intel's Ultrabooks
AMD has finally lifted the lid on its Trinity APUs, aiming to push into Intel’s Ultrabook market with its own “mainstream” devices. -
Lenovo unleashes new servers, workstations
Lenovo has announced a line of servers in its ThinkServer family aimed at enabling customers to deploy cloud and virtualisation services. -
Pirate Pay hopes to kill Pirate Bay
Pirate Pay CEO Andrei Klimenko said that the prototype could prevent files from being downloaded and it started to receive cash from the likes of Microsoft to develop it. -
AMD supports Windows Compact 7
Steven Bridgeland, product manager for Windows Embedded at Microsoft said that Bobcat will help push the Windows Embedded Compact platform into intelligent systems. -
Kim Jong Un becomes GPS nuisance
After his guided missile blew up and his economy became even worse, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has decided to really show people who is boss. -
Microsoft locks out rival browsers from Windows
It seems that Microsoft has forgotten the lessons of the legions browser anti-trust cases it faced a few years back. -
PC shipments in Western Europe decline
The Western European PC shipment market declined in the first quarter of this year, a report by Gartner has found. -
Sony reports huge loss
Strokers of beards and people in the know are saying that the Walkman and PlayStation maker has lost its innovative edge and is now behind rivals Apple, Microsoft and Samsung Electronics.
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