NewsFactor - Microsoft announced Wednesday that the 2008 version of SQL Server, its data-management and business-intelligence platform, has been released to manufacturing.
NewsFactor - Years ago, the Linux open-source operating system seemed ready to offer a nonproprietary alternative to Microsoft Windows. But "Linux on the desktop" never took off.
PC Magazine - Microsoft has inked a long-term deal with Havok, allowing all of their internal and affiliated studios full access to the company's entire library of physics tools.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080806/bs_nm/microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080806/2008_08_06t092011_450x281_us_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=.Q3r11Cl0B0TLM0jhBDFAg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="A worker fixes a spotlight at the Microsoft exhibit of the upcoming CeBIT fair in Hanover, Germany, March 3, 2008. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to
buy back as much as $20 billion of its stock to boost its
flagging share price, Bloomberg News quoted a top-rated
software analyst as saying.</p><br clear="all"/>
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/209903418/28480843/SIG=1374ftn2d/*http://www.intelligententerprise.com/;jsessionid=WIOUAPQSSWMLGQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">Intelligent Enterprise</a> - Long-serving executive helped grow the business intelligence product line from its roots in Microsoft SQL Server.
NewsFactor - Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) announced Monday that three U.S. Internet companies have agreed to an Internet code of conduct for doing business with repressive regimes like China. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo worked with human-rights organizations and other nongovernment groups to hammer out the framework.
NewsFactor - Microsoft plans to share early information about its monthly Patch Tuesday updates with security software providers, partners, customers and public organizations.
PC Magazine - Microsoft has confirmed that the "Midori" operating system is an "incubation project," without confirming whether it actually will be a commercial product or part of the Windows family.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080805/wr_nm/internetcos_china_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080805/2008_08_05t101312_450x292_us_internetcos_china.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=WDAPLxcC7scbv46WyloPBA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="People use computers inside an Internet cafe in Xining, northwestern China's Qinghai province, November 10, 2006. (Simon Zo/Files/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google
Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and
human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary
code of conduct for activities in China and other restrictive
countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
NewsFactor - If actor Kevin Bacon is reading this, he may want to urge people to expand the game bearing his name -- by playing it with Microsoft's Messenger.
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/209902760/28467621/SIG=131v0ku4f/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=YFT0Z1150VN30QSNDLQSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - A study of Microsoft's instant messaging network supports the popular idea that everyone on the planet can be connected through fewer than seven links in a chain of contacts.
PC Magazine - A House panel is ramping up its battle against behavioral advertising by requesting that major ISPs and Internet companies provide detailed information about how they collect and store information about Web users' Internet activity.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080802/bs_afp/uscompanyittakeoverexecutivemicrosoftyahoo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080802/capt.cps.nea36.020808033605.photo00.photo.default-386x512.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=U4.Yf0RO6cDsiL4c0Xc6Qg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang. Yahoo executives were resoundingly re-elected after being berated by shareholders over failed takeover talks with Microsoft and for exposing Internet dissidents to Chinese officials.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Yahoo executives were resoundingly re-elected after being berated by shareholders over failed takeover talks with Microsoft and for exposing Internet dissidents to Chinese officials.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_shareholders"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080801/capt.1aa9003807d8485cb115553743e21132.yahoo_shareholders_caps103.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=7NFNMVf8wHK144j3qCuKnA--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="Yahoo shareholder Eric Jackson, an outspoken critic of Yahoo CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang, talks to a reporter before the Annual Yahoo Shareholders Meeting in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. Yahoo shareholders are getting their chance to challenge the company's management over its handling of a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Yahoo Inc.'s board emerged largely unscathed from the Internet company's annual meeting Friday as a subdued crowd of shareholders raised few questions about the directors' rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_directors"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080806/2008_08_05t183406_356x450_us_yahoo.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=zsd06cA36FhipzI0QLOSOg--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang listens to a question during a hearing on Capitol Hill, November 6, 2007. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Yahoo's shareholders have re-elected the Internet company's entire board despite hard feelings about the directors' rejection of a takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.</p><br clear="all"/>
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/209901631/28441917/SIG=131gesib1/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=4V0L11XK0M0UEQSNDLQSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - The report shows that Microsoft is aware of its own important balancing act as the company strives to maintain its relevance and dominance in the services era.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/wr_nm/yahoo_shareholder_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080801/2008_07_31t190417_450x310_us_yahoo_shareholder.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=h0i7vNTH.tFZHXJTI59R4g--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is shown in Sunnyvale, California May 5, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Yahoo Inc tried to soothe
angry investors at its annual meeting on Friday, insisting it
had been serious about talks to sell itself to Microsoft Corp
and that it had good growth prospects in the next three years.</p><br clear="all"/>
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/209901484/28441933/SIG=131gesib1/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=4V0L11XK0M0UEQSNDLQSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - The software company is asking for testers to put the forthcoming IE 8 through it paces.
