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Financial Exec Says Microsoft’s Fiscal Picture Bright
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. officials said they felt good about the company’s absolute and relative performance over the past few years. The only company that had outperformed it on a compound annual growth rate basis was SAP AG. Taking the podium Thursday to address the financial analysts and media assembled here at the company’s campus headquarters,…
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Microsoft Reveals Product, Business Plans
Redmond, Wash.—Every year Microsoft Corp. holds its annual financial analyst meeting on its campus here. Hundreds of technology analysts gather to hear the brass pitch the company’s latest line as well as see some of the forthcoming technology, product plans and marketing campaigns. No surprise then that eWEEK and Microsoft Watch reporters were in attendance.…
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RFID Hack Could Allow Retail Fraud
LAS VEGAS—A German consultant has released a tool that its creator says will allow modifications of the code stored within RFID tags, theoretically allowing consumers to wreak havoc in future retail deployments. The RFDump software allows a user equipped with an RFID reader, a laptop or PDA, and a power supply to rewrite the data…
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Microsoft Previews All-in-One Search
REDMOND, Wash.—For more than two years, Microsoft has been talking up its goal of providing users with an integrated search capability that would allow them to find information stored locally on hard disks, on corporate intranets and across the Internet. On Thursday, Microsoft finally showed a prototype of such a service. Here at the annual…
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Microsoft Sales Chief: ‘Facts’ Show that Windows Trumps Linux
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft’s war on Linux isn’t about to let up. The Redmond software vendor plans to step up its “Get the Facts” anti-open-source campaign in the coming year by adding more evidence, in the form of customer case studies and analyst reports, to its arsenal. That’s what Kevin Johnson, Microsoft’s group vice president of worldwide…
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Partner with IM Companies for Custom Solutions
Before trying to sell an IM package to someone, you need to know what your clients want and require from an IM solution. For example, financial service companies, according to SEC regulations, now must archive their IM records. But you can’t simply ask your customer exactly what they require and want from IM, though. They…
