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Yahoo investor proposal unlikely to push Microsoft

A relatively small Yahoo shareholder is proposing a new Microsoft takeover offer, but analysts don't think it's enough to entice the companies back to the negotiating table.

| News | Internet | 10/10/08 at 3:40 pm |


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Microsoft Live Labs releases politically minded Web app

Just as the U.S. is in its last weeks of a heated presidential campaign, Microsoft's Live Labs group has launched a Web-based application that surfaces what it considers the recent political articles and documents that are getting the most attention and discussion among Web users.

| News | Internet | Tech & society | 10/09/08 at 9:33 pm |


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Microsoft to improve Vista's problematic UAC in Windows 7

Microsoft plans to improve the much-maligned user account control (UAC) feature in the next version of its Windows client OS, acknowledging that the new security feature it built into Windows Vista has caused unnecessary problems for users.

| News | Operating systems | Security | Windows | 10/09/08 at 2:34 pm |


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11 Microsoft security updates due next week

Next week will be a busy one for system administrators as Microsoft is planning to ship 11 security updates -- four of them rated critical -- for its products.

| News | Security | 10/09/08 at 2:25 pm |


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