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Microsoft Corp. today announced a collection of online services that can be attached to its Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning solutions, including a new Sites Service built on the Windows Azure platform, a new Commerce Service, and an expansion of its Payment Service.

Microsoft introduced Exchange Server 2010 at its Tech-Ed Europe 2009 conference and said customers are reporting significant cost savings.

"One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan 'puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them",' wrote the FT's Matthew Garrahan.

Verizon Droid's Sales Surge: Report [November 17, 2009] The Android Droid smartphone may be first legitimate iPhone challenger, according to one analytics firm.

The Parents Television Council , which aims to protect children from sex, violence and profanity on TV, is calling for Microsoft to stop advertising on the popular show "Family Guy." Why? Because of all the sex, violence, profanity, sexism, racism and other -isms on "Family Guy." Speaking during the Q&A session at Microsoft's annual shareholders ...

To hear the story from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft is selling copies of Windows 7 faster than the copies can be pressed.

Have you got spreadsheets that need a computer cluster to process? Your wish may be granted.

ParcelPoint is a national database containing information on more than 122 million U.S. land parcels.

Is Apple an enterprise software or hardware company? That's the question Gartner's Nick Jones asks , ultimately answering with "you have to have a pretty relaxed definition [of enterprise] before Apple fits it." "Enterprise" is defined by the company you keep.

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But cozy ties between spy agency and tech industry have some privacy advocates worried.

Philanthropist and former software company executive Doug Burgum is the recipient of North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award.

Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good.

Microsoft's Windows Azure team chose Advanced Telemetry among its select case study group to demonstrate how industry-leading companies utilizing the technology are realizing a myriad of benefits around agility, efficiency, focus and simplicity.

According to a recent survey conducted by Microsoft Corp., the majority of entrepreneurs who started their business during the recession were employed.

Microsoft will pass out beta code Wednesday it hopes will define the next evolution of directories.

Windows 7 is off to a great start. Microsoft. Yes, that is a part of what Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, told shareholders today.

Microsoft Corp. 's recently laid off "ambassador to startups" is reportedly ready to take a new job at Google Inc.

Microsoft has declared its .Net Micro framework open source under the Apace 2.0 license.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In a memo sent to employees, the CEO of Allen's investment firm says the 56-year-old Allen received the diagnosis this month and has begun chemotherapy.