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Microsoft Opens 2-Front Price War

Offers Office Ultimate software ‘steal’ for $59.95, rolls out commercials that bash Apple on Mac price premium.
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Microsoft, Red Hat Declare Virtual Truce

Reciprocal validation plan designed to help customers who load servers with multiple operating systems.
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Microsoft’s Pain, Cloud’s Gain?

No. 1 software company plans up to 5,000 layoffs, posts 11% decline in net income; Ballmer says Yahoo deal still appealing.
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Microsoft Unveils Cloud Strategy Called Azure

Software giant joins rivals on proposing services via the Internet. Azure OS would also mesh existing applications with web services.
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Computers, Finance

TechSpin: Servoy Dreams of Going Big

Ambitious Dutch software startup has good technology and hard-working managers. The challenge is to break out from the pack.
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UPDATE: McAfee Snaps Up Secure Computing for $413M

Security software firm taps $1.1B cash position to move further into enterprise and cloud.
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EU to Probe Microsoft Again

The European Commission opens a new antitrust probe against Microsoft into whether it unfairly tied its web browser to the Windows operating system and made it harder for rival software to work with Windows.
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Microsoft Office Ahead of Schedule?

Software behemoth releases Office 2007 Service Pack 1 productivity software, which it claims is more secure, at least one month ahead of its projected target.
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India’s $15 Billion Software Challenge

Tech leaders call on the Indian software industry, struggling to overcome cultural obstacles on innovation, to grow the country’s output of software from the current $1 billion to $15 billion by 2015.
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Microsoft Sees Uptick in Vista Sales

Software behemoth says that sales of its Windows Vista operating system, which has already seen mass business adoption, are poised to take off over the holiday season.
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BEA to Icahn: We’re Working on It

After Oracle’s deadline passes, the board tells activist shareholder that it won’t be pressured to sell at what it considers a fire-sale price.
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Internet, Finance

JackBe Nimbly Securing Funding

Analysts expect use of mashup technology and related investments to accelerate in the next five years. That might explain interest in mashup software provider JackBe, which snagged $9.5 million.
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Microsoft Ends EU Antitrust Fight

Deciding to no longer appeal, the software juggernaut ends three years of resistance against the European Commission and agrees to comply with its 2004 antitrust decision.
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Apple to Let Leopard Loose

Mac maker sets October 26 as date of release for its next version of OS X, dubbed Leopard, marking the sixth update to the operating system.
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Google Upgrades Business E-mail

Search king is hoping to attract business customers to Google Apps by offering stepped up e-mail management services at no additional cost to paying users.
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DOJ Praises Microsoft Remedy

Top antitrust officials from the U.S. Justice Department commended the European Union court for its ruling last week against Microsoft.
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Microsoft Extends XP Lifeline

Software beast says it will continue to sell Windows XP until June 2008, extending its time.
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French Mobile Linux Snags Funds

Purple Labs of Chambéry, France, says it has attracted $14.5 million to fund its embedded Linux for mobile in a first round led by Sofinnova Partners that includes Earlybird and Partners Group investors.
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Microsoft Endgame

The European Union court's ruling against Microsoft could signal the beginning of the end for Redmond's dominance over the PC software industry.
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Internet, Finance

Jive Software Gets $15M

Sequoia Capital invests in technology that is helping companies collaborate with Web 2.0 tools.
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