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New York, October 23 -- Microsoft has surely had a busy week. As the software giant took the wraps off its much hyped operating system Windows 7 Thursday, it also opened its first retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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New York, September 17 -- Oracle Corp., the world’s second- largest software maker, Wednesday reported a fall in sales in the first quarter ended Aug. 31, thus missing analysts’ expectations.

New York, September 13 -- Very soon online readers might not be able to read newspapers free of cost on the Internet. This is because search engine mogul Google is in the process of developing a technology that will facilitate newspapers in charging money from online readers.

NewYork, August 13: Ruling in favor of i4i Ltd, and against Microsoft, a federal district court in Texas has fined Microsoft $290 million and ordered the software giant to stop selling some versions of its extremely popular Word software in United States in 60 days.

New York, August, 12: Ruling in favor of music studios and against RealNetworks Inc, the U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel, has issued preliminary injunction, against the sale of RealDVD, claiming that it infringed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the terms of the DVD CSS license.

Beijing, July 1: Buckling under the pressure exerted by the U.S. government and the international technology industry, the Chinese authorities have put off its controversial directive that necessitated all personal computers to be accompanied by content-filtering software.

New York, June 24: Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), Microsoft's security software, has passed the anti-virus test. The software launched Wednesday on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, succeeded in preliminary malware detection testing where it was used to clear AV-Test's "WildList" collection of 3,194 common viruses, bots, and worms.