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  Microsoft's stock slides after dismal PC shipment reports

  Microsoft's stock took a beating in trading today after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14% from the year before.

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2013 20:26

  Tags: Windows, hardware systems, Desktop Apps, desktop pcs, goldman sachs, operating systems, Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Dell, IDC, Microsoft, software, Lenovo, intel, PCs

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  Microsoft releases Office 2010 SP2 public beta

  Microsoft has released a public beta of Office 2010 Service Pack 2, the first major update to the suite in almost two years.

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 April, 2013 21:50

  Tags: Microsoft, Desktop Apps, Windows, software, operating systems

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  Harvard scrambles to explain why it secretly searched deans' emails

  Harvard University officials scrambled Monday to contain the fallout from a damaging report in The Boston Globe over the weekend disclosing how administrators secretly accessed email accounts belonging to 16 resident deans at the university.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 11 March, 2013 20:21

  Tags: harvard university, security, Desktop Apps, privacy

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  Microsoft dangles 6 months free of Office 365 in front of students

  Microsoft on Monday kicked off a two-day promotion that gives college students Office 365 for up to six months free of charge.

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 March, 2013 19:27

  Tags: applications, Microsoft, Desktop Apps, software, Facebook

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  Microsoft retreats from Office 2013 restrictive licensing

  Microsoft today backpedaled from a sweeping change in its licensing for retail copies of Office 2013, saying that customers now have the right to move the software from one machine to another.

  By Gregg Keizer | 06 March, 2013 14:05

  Tags: applications, Microsoft, Desktop Apps, software

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  Why Microsoft's pushing Office subscriptions

  The launch of new and revised Office 365 software-by-subscription plans for businesses shows that Microsoft realizes its current licensing revenue is threatened by cost-cutting customers, an analyst said yesterday.

  By Gregg Keizer | 28 February, 2013 12:16

  Tags: applications, Assurance, Microsoft, Windows, Desktop Apps, software, operating systems

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  Google fixes 22 flaws in Chrome, slams silent add-ons

  Google yesterday released Chrome 25, patching 22 vulnerabilities and debuting a new security feature that blocks silent installations of add-ons.

  By Gregg Keizer | 22 February, 2013 16:08

  Tags: Google, Desktop Apps, internet, mozilla

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  Microsoft enlists Dell to push Office 365 on new PCs

  Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed, single-license trial.

  By Gregg Keizer | 21 February, 2013 12:03

  Tags: web apps, Microsoft, desktop pcs, Desktop Apps, hardware systems, Lenovo, PCs, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Dell, IDC

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  Microsoft adopts advocacy tactics to 'scroogle' Google in attack campaign

  As Microsoft pushed Outlook.com out of preview mode today, analysts said the company's "Scroogled" attack ads, which fired shots at Google's Gmail two weeks ago, were effective.

  By Gregg Keizer | 19 February, 2013 15:22

  Tags: web apps, IT industry, Google, Microsoft, Desktop Apps, cloud computing, internet

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  Microsoft quietly raises prices of Mac Office by up to 17 per cent

  Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite.

  By Gregg Keizer | 18 February, 2013 20:13

  Tags: applications, Microsoft, Desktop Apps, Mac OS X, software, Office suites

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  FAQ: Microsoft rents out Office 365

  Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. Is this the way we'll get software from now on? Or is it a gamble that could easily go awry? We've got the answers.

  By Gregg Keizer | 02 February, 2013 11:23

  Tags: Microsoft, Desktop Apps, Windows, software, operating systems

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  IE10 for Windows 7 nears final release, says report

  Microsoft is close to wrapping up work on Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) on Windows 7, according to a report Friday.

  By Gregg Keizer | 18 January, 2013 21:23

  Tags: Microsoft, Desktop Apps, Windows, software, operating systems

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  Microsoft courts Google Apps small-biz users with longer Office 365 free deal

  For the second day in a row, Microsoft on Tuesday pitched one of its products to customers abandoned by arch-rival Google.

  By Gregg Keizer | 19 December, 2012 15:27

  Tags: Google, Microsoft, Desktop Apps, cloud computing, internet

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  Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps

  Microsoft will be able to throw a "kill switch" to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation released earlier this week for its upcoming Windows Store.

  By Gregg Keizer | 09 December, 2011 06:17

  Tags: Apple, App Development, Google, Microsoft, Windows, Desktop Apps, software, operating systems

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  Make BI business as usual

  If 1-800-Flowers.com CIO Steve Bozzo had his druthers, even the online retailer's mailroom clerks would have access to business intelligence. "There's valuable information at every level of the organization," he says.

  By Beth Schultz | 06 December, 2011 01:53

  Tags: freemium, BI and Analytics, applications, Desktop Apps, 1-800-Flowers.com, software