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Introducing Microsoft's New, Cheaper Office Suite
Monday, March 17, 2014 - 1:56pm | 556Read More...It’s called Office 365 Personal and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said Sunday the new cloud-based version of its popular productivity software would work just like the conventional program and include Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Office 365 Personal will sell for $69.99 a year or $6.99 a...
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Bill Gates Admits Well-Known Windows Trick Was a Mistake
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 7:46am | 533Read More...If you’re a PC user, or were in the past, you know of the head-scratching key combination you know as Control-Alt-Delete. In a recent comment, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates called it a mistake. If you’ve moved on from a Windows-based system, maybe you forgot that control-alt-...
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Can Microsoft's $499 Surface Defeat Apple's iPad?
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 1:33pm | 814Read More...Days before Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected to unveil a cheaper and smaller version of its popular tablet, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has announced that Surface will go head-to-head against the third-generation iPad with a starting price of $499. Surface partially undercuts the iPad by offering are...
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Microsoft Unveils New Office, World Tries to Stay Awake
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 4:52pm | 573Read More...Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has announced the newest version of its hugely popular Office program, promising a groundbreaking cloud service that is always up to date. "We are taking bold steps at Microsoft," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a press conference in San Francisco. "The new, modern...
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Microsoft Takes Aim at Google with New Cloud-based Office Suite
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 6:26am | 255Read More...Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is taking square aim at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps with the roll-out of a new cloud-based service that features its popular Office software suite. The company is expected to include programs like Outlook e-mail and Excel spreadsheets in an online offering that users could...
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Microsoft - The Rodney Dangerfield of Tech Stock? Hardly!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 4:21am | 1115Read More...Once the darling of Wall Street, Microsoft is the reason its founder, Bill Gates, became the richest man in the world (although mostly due to the fact that Sam Walton dividing his Walmart (NYSE: WMT) stake to his children after he died) until overtaken by Carlos Slim, the Mexican tycoon who is the...
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Can the Windows Phone 7 Handsets Stand Up to Apple's iPhone?
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 2:39pm | 615Read More...Everywhere you go, consumers can be seen using their smartphones to make calls, to send text messages, to answer e-mails, to surf the Web, and to play video games. But more often than not, these consumers aren't using just any smartphone available – they're using an iPhone. Over the last few years...
