Microsoft ends free software for monitoring giveaway
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Microsoft pulled the free software offer from its Web site Tuesday, which made free copies of Vista and Office among other applications available in exchange for feedback.
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Is Microsoft's anti-malware giveaway part of a master plan to flush out software pirates?
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Microsoft Corp. has begun providing free tools so government organizations can better share technological information, in a move it says is aimed at helping cash-strapped customers save money.
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BetaNews is reporting that the auction site will be dropping Microsoft&#39;s .NET support somtime in January 2005. &quot;Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced DreamSpark â an ironic name, since it actually lays bare Microsoft's worst nightmare: that more and more of tomorrow's programmers are growing up using free software for their studies, which means that as they move out into the world, there will be less and less demand for Microsoft's tools, and even fewer programs written for its platforms. read more
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SPAM FIGHTING super hero software behemoth Microsoft has come up with a wizard way of stopping those who send spam from its free Hotmail accounts.
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NEW DELHI -- Microsoft Corp. will distribute free software to nonprofit groups to boost charity in India, a company official said Monday.
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Free Silver membership of Microsoft's Games for Windows Live includes some online play; Gold includes cross-platform play.
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The latest craze in software: giving stuff away. BEA Systems, Computer Associates and IBM all recently started releasing the source code, or underlying instructions, for some programs, which amounts to distributing those products free. Even the loosest definition of incentive rebates would probably stop short of 100% discounts, but then the economics of software are peculiar (see story, p. 161). The giveaways were celebrated, especially by the noisy "open-source" movement, which wants all software distributed this way. (They're not kidding.)
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By ANICK JESDANUN  NEW YORK - Microsoft gives away a security firewall with its latest operating system. Many high-speed Internet service providers offer free anti-virus protection for subscribers. And several Web sites distribute free toolbars to warn of Web scams.
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Microsoft has suspended a test release of its ballyhooed algorithmic search engine from the MSN Sandbox Web site. A note on MSN's Web page read that the product team had solicited enough feedback to launch another preview later on this year. In the meantime, users are encouraged to make use of the existing MSN search service.
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Blog: The software maker has a testy back and forth with a software maker that has created a utility that interacts with the free version of Visual Studio.
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Windows users could soon be paying for Microsoft software that keeps their machine free of spyware.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.
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Microsoft announced Monday that it had completed its Windows Home Server (WHS) software and released the code to its OEM partners, just six months after Redmond unveiled the project.
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Saying the functionality within the application is now available through other programs and within Windows Vista, Microsoft has decided to discontinue its Digital Image Suite Product, a notice on its Web site reads.
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Microsoft has announced a new promotional program offering free access to some of its development, design and gaming software to students worldwide. The stated goals of the program are to help spark creativity and prepare the next generation for high-tech careers. In addition, the promotion may also help develop a preference for Microsoft  among a younger generation that often leans toward open source alternatives.