More daily shorts for you all:
- Microsoft
signals search intentions with Overture poach: Microsoft has hired
Paul Ryan, a former CTO of pay-per-click search firm Overture Services, to
lead its push into search technology
- A
Platform Switch In Search Of A Killer App: A week after Microsoft took
the wraps off Windows Longhorn, software developers are cogitating on one
key question:
What's the killer app?
- Game
Over for Microsoft Critics?: The game clock has almost expired for Massachusetts
and a handful of other holdouts who continue to insist that Microsoft's landmark
antitrust settlement with the federal government isn't working.
- Microsoft
locks down intellectual property: Microsoft today is making available
a security component of Windows Server 2003 that aims to help IT administrators
seeking
ways to control intellectual property within an enterprise.
- Microsoft, IBM
Put Intel Outside: Microsoft and Sony may be the
leading competitors in video game consoles, but apart from any strategy
to leverage them into a broader yet unproven entertainment platform,
the machines themselves bleed money. Many investors believe that the inside
of the
boxes contains the more tangible return.
- Microsoft's
Server OS Market Growing: While Microsoft faces a number of lesser competitors,
the software giant continues to garner share in server operating system markets.
- Security--why don't we
get it?: I know this statement seems unbelievable to anyone who spent
hours cleaning up after these worms. But the cold truth is that these worms
barked
more loudly than they bit.
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