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This story was written by CNET's Ina Fried. Stephen Elop is convinced that even in a world of free, browser-based productivity software, consumers and businesses will continue to pay for Office.

Microsoft Dynamics President's Club for the sixth consecutive year, receiving recognition from Microsoft Corp.

Last December I offered "Nine predictions for Silicon Valley in 2009." With the year half over, it's time for an update on my crystal ball reading skills.

In an effort to help higher education institutions support economic stimulus efforts and work-force development strategies, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash, Silverlight, has officially rolled out the new version, Silverlight 3, Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. today announced new CRM Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that help organizations reduce costs and establish business insight across social networks, channel-centric organizations and Web interaction channels.

Google came to master Web search and online advertising largely on its own. But now that it plans to create an operating system to compete with Microsoft's widely used Windows, Google will have to play nicely with computer makers.

Microsoft has integrated Bing with Hotmail, a month on from the release of its fancy new search engine.

By Anne d'Innocenzio In a bid to get its customers to go beyond necessities like apples and detergent, Wal-Mart is launching a new fashion line with teen star Miley Cyrus and BCBG designer Max Azria for the critical back-to-school shopping season.

Microsoft Corp. will price a multi-license "family pack" for Windows 7 at $149.99, according to at least one online retailer that has posted pricing details prematurely.

Google Inc. captured 74% of the U.S. Internet search market in the four weeks ended June 27, though Microsoft Corp.

This story was written by Joseph Tartakoff. CoTweet , a startup whose software is behind many high-profile corporate Twitter accounts, has raised $1.1 million in a first round of funding.

Google Inc. , not satisfied owning the search engine market, yesterday revealed it is going to assault Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft stated Tuesday that it will not pursue legal action against open source software developers using C# and CLI programming languages.

Microsoft may be ready to cut its losses by settling two antitrust cases pending in the EU rather than prolonging what appears to be a losing battle.

Submitted by John Lake on July 8, 2009 - 1:27pm North Korea Does it seems strange that what was earlier reported as a torrential rain of computer virus aimed at the Department of Defense at the Pentagon, the White House,and the New York Stock Exchange, should receive considerably less news coverage than other more upscale happenings? The Pentagon ...

Microsoft Corp.'s next installment of Windows doesn't launch until October, but deep discounts on some versions are available through Saturday if you want to pre-order. Before pouncing on this deal, make sure it's right for your PC.

Update : Google has officially announced it . And they are open-sourcing it, as I suspected below: "Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.

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Well, here's a provocative idea on the search market. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney wrote a research note Tuesday on the search engine business which included a summary of a conference call he held for clients with Danny Sullivan , the editor-in-chief of the wen site Search Engine Land , along with Nick Gould , the CEO of the research firm ...