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Microsoft releases beta of unified communications hub, 12/12/06
Microsoft’s goal to provide a unified communications infrastructure for the enterprise moved forward Tuesday with the release of a private beta of software it sees as its communications hub.
Doubletake: Microsoft’s Gates and Ballmer could be mistaken for actors, 12/12/06
Maybe you’re one of those people turned off by the thought of buying software from that billionaire brainiac Bill Gates and his rabblerousing sidekick Steve Ballmer. But maybe you’d change your mind if you thought about them more as say, actors Ben Kingsley and Spencer Tracy.
Microsoft fixes IE, Windows Media Player flaws, 12/12/06
Microsoft has rolled out its monthly security updates for December, patching critical flaws in Internet Explorer, Windows Media Format and the Visual Studio 2005 development software.
Microsoft exec praised Mac ‘to change Vista process’, 12/12/06
Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin says he was being “purposefully dramatic” in a three-year-old e-mail to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer that surfaced late last week at an Iowa antitrust trial against Microsoft.
HP and Microsoft to unveil enterprise software deal, 12/12/06
HP and Microsoft will enter into a new enterprise software agreement to be detailed Wednesday.
Hackers attack using second Word flaw, 12/11/06
With its monthly security updates due out Tuesday, Microsoft has a new problem to worry about: Word flaws.
Microsoft offers software for building robots, 12/13/06
Microsoft released the commercial version of its software for robots Wednesday, hoping to shape the market much as it did for PC software a few decades ago.
