Microsoft Donates to Katrina Rebuilding
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Microsoft said Monday that it donated $1.7 million to support rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, with the money  being awarded to non-profit partners in Louisiana and Texas.
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Microsoft Corp  has made  progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost  laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival  Linux software, an executive said on Thursday.
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The former head of Microsoft Corp&#39;s Windows business has given his financial backing to SourceLabs Inc, a new open source support and services firm set up by former executives at BEA Systems Inc.
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The software giant is expected to formally donated the developer tools to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance, an engineering working group.
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Microsoft is giving its users an opportunity to direct where its charitable efforts go to through the "i'm Initiative," which sends a portion of Windows Live Messenger ad revenue to a selected charity.
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By SCOTT DYER  A national consortium has donated four high-tech mobile classrooms worth $52,000 each to help East Baton Rouge Parish public schools deal with the influx of displaced students resulting from Hurricane Katrina.
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They gave Greg Porter the key to the city for his volunteer work after Hurricane Katrina. Then, he says, they showed him the door.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is  donating $750 million to pay for wider vaccination programs in  developing countries, British newspapers said on Tuesday.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19 -- Louisiana lags behind Mississippi in forwarding federal aid to cash-strapped communities after Hurricane Katrina, lending support to complaints by local officials in the New Orleans area that the state is holding up money they need for repairs and rebuilding.
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Microsoft Corp. is working with state officials in Louisiana to offer Windows and Office software free for a year to small businesses still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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There's no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as the end of the first Microsoft era.  This year, Bill Gates will finally hang up his Microsoft mouse and leave the company he cofounded over 30 years ago.  Most people know that he's going off to spend the very large sums of money he has acquired from those Microsoft years, most of which has been used to set up the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation with $37.6 billion in assets.  But what will that really mean for free software? read more
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President George Bush is to honour those who have "dedicated their lives" to rebuilding New Orleans.
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Nations and businesses pledge aid to areas hit by Sunday's disaster.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft is working with state officials in Louisiana to offer Windows and Office software free for a year to small businesses still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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The cash-strapped city, which has borrowed heavily to continue operating after Hurricane Katrina, is turning to text-messaged donations in an effort to defray the costs of Mardi Gras, its premier cultural event.
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By Cherish Wilson, The Star, Shelby, N.C.  Feb. 17--SHELBY -- Some of the county's poorest schools are set to  benefit from a recent multi-million dollar settlement in a class-action  lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation.
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Software giant offers Windows and Office free for a year to small businesses still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.