Microsoft's MSN marks Greater China separate region
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Microsoft Corp.'s  MSN unit is  treating its greater China market as a geographically separate  region, industry sources said on Tuesday, in a nod to China's  increasing importance to the software giant.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 21 September: China Telecom, a leading fixed-line phone operator in China, has joined the country's fierce Internet search engine competition with Microsoft as its technical partner.
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN Internet division late Wednesday debuted a preliminary version of MSN Spaces, designed to bring blogs to the masses.
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The latest update to Microsoft's MSN Direct service which will take effect on numerous personal navigation devices.
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Microsoft&#39;s has launched its MSN music download service in eight more European countries as the software giant bids to takes on Apple&#39;s market leading iTunes.
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Telecoms equipment group Marconi  clinches a major deal allowing it an inroad into China and the rest of Asia.
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Citing a rise in spam abuse, Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN division has ended free access to its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service through the Outlook and Outlook Express clients.
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Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) launched its MSN music download service in eight new European countries on Thursday. The software colossus made the move a mere week after iTunes, the category killer
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New Microsoft program smoothes transition from Chinese to English.
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In an effort to show wide support for its newest Windows Mobile operating system, Microsoft Corp. is highlighting several announcements from handset makers on Monday at 3GSM in Barcelona.
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Microsoft has announced its new version of its Windows operating systems for mobile devices and said it won new Asian partners hoping to gain more market share from competitors, Symbian and Nokia.
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China has launched the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet, CERNET2, breaking the US monopoly and allowing the Communist giant to dramatically narrow its gap with world leaders, officials and experts said on Monday.
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REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 19  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MSN today announced the U.S.
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Microsoft has expanded its initiative to provide a low-cost distribution of Windows in Asia. Although the program was originally directed exclusively toward social welfare programs in Thailand and Indonesia, it will now be expanded to Malaysia. The software will be available in all three countries by October.
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Microsoft will translate its blockbuster computer software Windows and Office into Quechua, the language of the indigenous Inca, for Andean nations from Argentina to Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where it is spoken, the company said.
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Microsoft continues to make acquisitions to boost its online services and advertising strategy. Early Wednesday, the company said it snapped up Multimap, a U.K. company that provides online mapping for Europe, North America, and Australia.The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. Multimap, based in London, will act as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, and employees will be integrated into the company&#39;s Virtual Earth and Search teams in its Online Services Group (OSG), Microsoft said.Multimap has staff in the United Kingdom, the&#160;United States, and Australia, and Microsoft said it is not sure yet if those employees will stay where they are or move to other offices. The Multimap office in the United Kingdom will remain open and employees will continue business as usual there, the company added.In addition to providing online maps, Multimap also offers location-based services to find local businesses, hotels, and restaurants, as well as business services to provide mapping, proximity searching, routing, aerial images with map overlay, and local information to business Web sites.Microsoft has been looking for ways to boost the value and, thus revenue, of OSG, which oversees MSN and Windows Live. Microsoft hopes to leverage these properties to sell online advertising and generate revenue in this area to compete with Google.Last week, the company said it&#160;purchased Seattle startup WebFives, formerly Vizrea, which provides a Web-based file-sharing service for Internet and mobile video, photos, audio, and blogs. Microsoft also made its largest acquisition to date to boost the revenue of OSG with its&#160;purchase of aQuantive digital advertising and marketing services firm for $6 billion&#160;earlier this year.In addition to making acquisitions, Microsoft also has been partnering with online content and service providers to offer online advertising. On Monday, the company announced a deal to be the&#160;exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising for CNBC.com, a deal similar to ones it already has&#160;in place with Facebook globally&#160;and&#160;Digg in the United States.All of these efforts are part of a now two-year push to add services and content for its online brands to boost the revenue of its Online Services Business segment. To date, Wall Street analysts have said they are unimpressed by the growth of this segment, and Microsoft&#39;s moves seem to be evidence the company is getting that message loud and clear.Revenue from online services grew only 8.7 percent from $2.3 million to $2.5 million for Microsoft&#39;s fiscal year 2007, ended June 30. For the company&#39;s first-quarter 2008, during which the aQuantive deal closed, revenue from OSG was better, up 25 percent year over year. But even Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell acknowledged when first-quarter earnings were revealed that Microsoft would like to see more growth from this business segment.
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It is launching a test service to allow people to publish blogs, or online journals, called MSN Spaces. Microsoft is trailing behind competitors like Google and AOL, which already offer services which make it easy for people to set up web journals.