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Blue Security Shuts Down Anti-Spam Service

Score one for the spammers. The company behind a controversial anti-spam initiative is shutting down the service after spammers began threatening users and rendering the company's site inaccessible.

Judge Agrees to Extend Microsoft Oversight

DOJ to continue keeping an eye on Microsoft's business practices for two more years.

Software Makers Crack Down on Net Piracy

Rivals Symantec and McAfee band together to bust eBay software pirates.

Microsoft Plans New Search Products

Windows Live Search, competitor to Google Search, offered as a free download.

Gates to CEOs: Here's to Another 10 Years

Ten years ago, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told CEOs attending the keynote of his first CEO Summit that the exponential changes being brought about by technology would continue unabated.

Microsoft Launches Laptop Rebate Program for System Builders

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new laptop rebate program to encourage system builders in the Microsoft Partner Program to focus on mobile systems.

SharePoint Server Gets Spotlight at Microsoft CEO Summit

In a post-keynote press conference with Microsoft executives and Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, Microsoft pushed its vision for the next version of SharePoint Server, scheduled to ship to business customers in October.

Apple Releases More Laptops with Intel Chips

Intel chips sweep through the Mac landscape; what's left to complete the transition are high-end Macs.

Gates Shows Off SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday touted the capabilities of the company's upcoming Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

AMD To Unveil Power-Efficient Chips

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in personal computer microprocessors, plans to unveil chips Tuesday it says will lead to more power-efficient PCs that are smaller and more stylish.

Hewlett-Packard Profit Rises on Cost-Cutting, Higher Revenue

HP bests Wall Street estimate of 49 cents per share by a nickel.

IBM Develops New Tape Storage Technology

Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. say a new method for cramming data onto magnetic tape will increase storage capacity at least 15 times, enough to squeeze the text from 8 million books onto a cartridge half the size of a VHS tape.

Microsoft Releases First Preview of Expression Web Designer

Microsoft has released the first community technology preview (CTP) of its Expression Web Designer tool targeted for designers producing professional Web sites.

Partner Watch, May 15

EMC Corp. acquires IT professional services firm Interlink.

Microsoft Shifts Partner Executives

Margo Day, the leader of the U.S. Partner Group since September 2001, is moving into an alternate role in the Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners organization.

DOJ Wants to Extend Oversight of Microsoft to 2009

Citing Microsoft Corp.'s lapses under part of a landmark antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company's business practices until at least November 2009.

ISO: OpenDoc Ratified as Standard

In Europe on Monday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC jointly announced they have ratified the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard meant to enable documents from various desktop applications to be interchangeable.

BlackBerry Coming to China

The company behind the BlackBerry on Thursday said it will launch its mobile e-mail service in China, where it already has homegrown competition: the Redberry.

Entry-Level SAN Tool Bows

DataCore says it is shipping an entry-level version of its enterprise resource analysis, monitoring and reporting tool for Windows and storage area networks (SAN).

Speech Server 2007 Enters Beta Test

Microsoft said this week that it's shipping the first beta test version of Speech Server 2007 on schedule, and plans to release the final code this fall.