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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2087 technology Microsoft en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:40:13 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2087 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091125/tc_pcworld/metasploitreleasesieattackbutitsunreliable pcworld/20091125/metasploitreleasesieattackbutitsunreliable PC World technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:40:13 GMT PC World - Developers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing toolkit have released code that can compromise Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, but the software is not as reliable as first thought. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091125/tc_pcworld/attacksappearimminentasieexploitisimproved pcworld/20091125/attacksappearimminentasieexploitisimproved PC World technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:50:13 GMT PC World - Hackers working on the open-source Metasploit project have spiffed up a zero-day attack on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, making it more reliable -- and more likely to be used by criminals. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091125/tc_zd/246390 zd/20091125/246390 PC Magazine technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:16:11 GMT PC Magazine - Microsoft just announced that its Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition office suite will cost just $99 from Friday 11/27 through Monday 11/30. That's $50 off the standard price. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_microsoft_ahead_of_the_bell ap/20091125/us_microsoft_ahead_of_the_bell AP business Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:39:25 GMT AP - Analysts cautioned Wednesday not to read too much into the coming departure of Microsoft Corp. finance chief Chris Liddell, which was announced Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091125/tc_zd/246379 zd/20091125/246379 PC Magazine technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:40:53 GMT PC Magazine - Microsoft Corp's Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/bs_nm/us_microsoft_cfo nm/20091125/us_microsoft_cfo Reuters business Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:53:31 GMT Reuters - Microsoft Corp's Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091125/tc_pcworld/microsoftcforesignseffectiveyearend pcworld/20091125/microsoftcforesignseffectiveyearend PC World technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:22:00 GMT PC World - Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell plans to leave the company at the end of the year after managing the software giant's finances for nearly five years, Microsoft said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091125/tc_afp/usitcompanycomputermicrosoft afp/20091125/usitcompanycomputermicrosoft AFP technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:04:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091125/tc_afp/usitcompanycomputermicrosoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259107434606-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=wRXdUcupctGM22fqm7uvng--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="US software giant Microsoft announced on Tuesday that chief financial officer Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of the year.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US software giant Microsoft announced on Tuesday that chief financial officer Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of the year.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091125/tc_afp/usitcompanycomputermicrosoft"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1259107434606-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=wRXdUcupctGM22fqm7uvng--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="US software giant Microsoft announced on Tuesday that chief financial officer Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of the year.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/tc_afp/usaustraliacanadaitinternetyahoomicrosoftgoogle afp/20091124/usaustraliacanadaitinternetyahoomicrosoftgoogle AFP technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:47:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/tc_afp/usaustraliacanadaitinternetyahoomicrosoftgoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259106307504-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6NlPDDktLaG4dV2gGX1Vog--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The websites of Bing, Microsoft and Yahoo are displayed on a computer monitor in July 2009. Australian and Canadian competition authorities have approved the Internet search and advertising partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Australian and Canadian competition authorities have approved the Internet search and advertising partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/tc_afp/usaustraliacanadaitinternetyahoomicrosoftgoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259106307504-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6NlPDDktLaG4dV2gGX1Vog--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The websites of Bing, Microsoft and Yahoo are displayed on a computer monitor in July 2009. Australian and Canadian competition authorities have approved the Internet search and advertising partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20091124/tc_infoworld/101588 infoworld/20091124/101588 InfoWorld technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:00:00 GMT InfoWorld - Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a major upgrade from SharePoint 2007 in several areas. It has a much improved user interface, especially for online editing. It supports more browsers. It does a better job of integrating with Microsoft Office. It provides more opportunities to developers and designers, as well as to shops that might want to consolidate other products (such as blogs and wikis and business applications) with SharePoint. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091124/tc_zd/246328 zd/20091124/246328 PC Magazine technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:34:11 GMT PC Magazine - Will the market accept another netbook with a non-Microsoft operating system? That's the question some are asking in the wake of the release of the code behind Google's Chrome OS, which is known as the open-source Chromium OS. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091124/wr_nm/us_microsoft_newscorp nm/20091124/us_microsoft_newscorp Reuters technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:07:15 GMT Reuters - Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091124/tc_pcworld/microsoftissuessecurityadvisoryonievulnerability pcworld/20091124/microsoftissuessecurityadvisoryonievulnerability PC World technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:10:11 GMT PC World - Microsoft Monday night issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/bugsfixesfirefoxsquashesabuggymicrosoftplugin pcworld/20091123/bugsfixesfirefoxsquashesabuggymicrosoftplugin PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT PC World - Redmond turned red-faced upon learning that an automatically installed Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation plug-in for Firefox opened a major security hole. Following Microsoft's disclosure of the bug, Mozilla blocked the plug-in. According to Mozilla, Microsoft agreed with the move, even though it had released a patch to close the underlying flaw. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/windows8in2012 pcworld/20091123/windows8in2012 PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:16:00 GMT PC World - Microsoft Windows 8 may be coming as early as 2012, based on a recent rash of comments and hints dropped by Microsoft personnel in official capacity and informal context. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/newscorpandmicrosoftplotantigooglepactsaysreport pcworld/20091123/newscorpandmicrosoftplotantigooglepactsaysreport PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:36:00 GMT PC World - News Corp. and Microsoft are reportedly in "early stage talks" to cut an exclusive deal that would prevent Google from indexing the media conglomerate's news Websites some of which include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and others. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091123/tc_zd/246309 zd/20091123/246309 PC Magazine technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:22:55 GMT PC Magazine - Microsoft is reportedly in talks to make News Corp. content exclusive to Bing. No way will Google let that fly. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/microsofttechnologyreducesnetworkredundancy pcworld/20091123/microsofttechnologyreducesnetworkredundancy PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:30:12 GMT PC World - Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator devices over a WAN. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091123/tc_zd/246302 zd/20091123/246302 PC Magazine technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:03:49 GMT PC Magazine - Microsoft's need to beat Google and Rupert Murdoch's desire to help newspapers survive could lead to an online news ice age. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/reportmicrosoftmaypaynewscorptodelistfromgoogle pcworld/20091123/reportmicrosoftmaypaynewscorptodelistfromgoogle PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:00:09 GMT PC World - Microsoft has discussed paying News Corp. to remove its news Web sites from Google's search results and list them on its Bing search engine instead, The Financial Times reported Sunday on its Web site.