Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation, or often just MS, is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These products have prominent positions in the desktop computer market, with market share estimates as high as 90% or more as of 2003 for Microsoft Office and 2006 for Microsoft Windows. One of Bill Gates' key visions is "to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in every home".
Reducing the pain of reinstalling Windows with Ninite
Ninite cleverly puts the installation of many, many possible programs behind a single simplistic installer making the pain of reinstalling Windows significantly reduced.
Twitter search results to appear in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) of Google and Microsoft Bing
Tweets from the Twitter microblogging service will soon be appearing within the search engine results pages (or SERPs) of two popular website Internet search engines, Google and Microsoft Bing (previously Live search). This will move significant search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques towards the social networks and microblogging communities.
Microsoft Urges Users to Change Browser
After a recent serious vulnerability was discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft have been urging users to change browser. Some publications have stated that Microsoft recommended Mozilla Firefox and have been quoted as recommending it over their own Internet Explorer web browser.
Microsoft Corporation
Founded 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. The company released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopolistic business practices—both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, brought Microsoft to court for antitrust violations and software bundling.
Windows 7 Release Date
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker.
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