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Microsoft uses TechFest to tout new user interfaces

Although it is not open to the press this year, Microsoft is using this week's TechFest internal science fair as an occasion to talk about some of the work it is doing to find new ways of connecting with computers. Read more »

Microsoft turns room into a PC

Microsoft's gesture-recognition technology, Project Natal, could transform the office, according to top company executive Craig Mundie. Read more »

Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »

Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »

Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June. Read more »

Schneier suspicious of Microsoft's security vision

Speaking at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week, a senior Microsoft executive sang the praises of the software giant's emerging vision for 'trust' based security, prompting one industry figurehead to label the strategy as "anti-competitive". Read more »

Intel, Microsoft plough US$20m into multicore research

Intel and Microsoft announced on Tuesday they are jointly backing university research to help address the challenges posed by a shift to processors with many brains. Read more »

Microsoft 'ecosystem' owns 42 percent of IT

Microsoft now has the data to prove how influential they are, with a new study showing they control over 40 percent of the IT industry. Read more »

Intel: Software needs to heed Moore's Law

After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most desktop software, Intel said the free ride is over. Read more »

PC software development to live on: Mundie

Software in the future will not run exclusively from services on the Internet -- despite all the talk -- according to Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer. Read more »

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Microsoft defends Windows CE code-share

The new version of Microsoft's Windows CE code-sharing agreement must be popular because vendors have signed up to it, says the software giant. Read more »

Will C# benefit Microsoft, or the industry?

Now that C# has been approved by the ISO, one question looms large: Will Microsoft use its intellectual property rights to make it difficult for developers to comply with the standard? Read more »

Microsoft to open more source code

Microsoft's shared source chief Jason Matusow talks about whether the company plans to release more Office source code. The question is, does anybody want it? Read more »

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RSA 2008: Microsoft outlines Internet security strategy

At the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie describes a new plan for Internet security that includes the creation of a trusted stack. Each element can be authenticated, from the operating system to applications, people, and data. Read more »

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