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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took center stage at the opening of the International CES Jan. 7 to announce that Microsoft would release a beta version of its new Windows 7 operating system this week. In addition, Ballmer announced new partnerships for its Windows Live Essentials product, including a deal with Dell that will allow Microsoft to pre-install Live Search with Dell’s consumer and small business PCs. Earlier in the day, Microsoft also struck a search deal with Verizon Wireless.
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Rather than make predictions about what Microsoft might do next year, we take the bolder approach of giving unsolicited advice, whether or not it's wanted. The list of recommendations is in order of importance, from least to most, from 10 to 1. For those people wanting even more, there is a fuller list at Microsoft Watch.
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Microsoft is again urging users to apply a patch for a vulnerability in the Windows Server service. The company reported earlier that a new variant of the Conficker worm has surfaced to target the flaw.
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The worldwide freezing of Microsoft's 30GB Zune media player, caused by a software bug unprepared for the 2008 leap year, has been fixed, Microsoft says.
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Throughout the year, eWEEK readers voted with their mouse clicks on their favorite news stories and slide shows. Here is a list of our most viewed content of 2008, compiled by eWEEK's editors based on our traffic analysis reports.
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Microsoft Zune owners are up in arms over an apparent worldwide, simultaneous glitch that leaves the media player frozen.
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The global economic crisis may darken 2009 skies, but it was all sunshine and cloud computing for Microsoft this year. We pick the three most important events from each month. For a fuller chronology for each month, please visit Microsoft Watch.
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Microsoft expects its Xbox game console sales to outpace broader market growth next year, a senior executive said on Wednesday, projecting optimism despite dampened consumer spending. Although the global economic slowdown has hit consumer demand, Microsoft expects the overall video game industry to continue growing next year as more people choose to stay at home, said Alan Bowman, Asia general manager of Xbox operations.
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At the 2009 CES expo, Intel will officially roll out an updated version of its Classmate PC reference design that adds several new capabilities. The most significant additions to the Classmate PC design are a convertible tablet and touch-screen options. In addition, Intel is now offering its own Atom processors with the Classmate PC instead of a low-power Celeron chip used in previous designs. While the Intel Classmate PC is considered akin to a number of "netbooks" and mini-notebooks that have been developed in the past year, it primarily competes against the One Laptop Per Child PC that has been developed for the education market and school children.
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Microsoft issues an out-of-band patch for the zero-day flaw affecting Internet Explorer. The IE security fix comes in response to reports hackers have been targeting the Web browser data binding vulnerability for at least a week.
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Intel will officially launch the latest version of its Classmate PC reference design at the 2009 CES in Las Vegas. This version of the Classmate PC laptop will include tablet and touch-screen features and allow Intel and its OEM partners to offer two different types of low-cost laptops for school children. This version of the Intel Classmate PC will include an Intel Atom processor and support for Microsoft Windows XP as well as several Linux operations system flavors, including Ubuntu.
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Microsoft says a release candidate version of its Internet Explorer 8 browser is imminent and application developers ought to get ready. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, says Microsoft will soon release an RC version of the IE 8 browser with enhanced standards support, better tooling and other new features added since the Beta 2 release of the Web browser.
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Microsoft publishes documentation on how it plans to implement support of the OASIS Open Document Format Version 1.1 in Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 when it becomes available in 2009. Microsoft says it will deliver similar notes on how it will support Open XML in Office in the near future.
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Few things caused a stir in the security market from a business perspective in 2008 like Microsoft's decision to phase out Windows Live OneCare. The Microsoft security subscription service will be in replaced by a free, stripped-down product code-named Morro.
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Microsoft is prepping a security patch for a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser. The out-of-band patch is slated to be ready Dec. 17 and will fix a data binding problem being attacked by hackers.
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Microsoft shows off Windows 7, a less ambitious offering than Vista but one with more realistic goals. With its new features and improved performance, Windows 7 seems like a better version of Vista rather than a major step forward.
Vista SP1 offers a rollup of fixes and performance enhancements,
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