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WSJ free feature: How Boss’s Deeds Buff A Firm’s Reputation – Gates’s Philanthropy Puts Microsoft Atop Yearly Survey Of Best, Worst Companies: “Top-ranked Microsoft managed to beat Johnson & Johnson, whose emotionally appealing baby-products business had kept it in first place for a remarkable seven consecutive years. In the Reputation Quotient survey conducted by market-research …
Press release, November 1, 2006: “The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), two of the leading public-interest advocacy groups working on behalf of a more diverse and competitive online environment, filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the commission to undertake an immediate, …
Microsoft public version of extensive internal privacy guidelines for developers: “In response to requests from customers, partners, ISVs, educators, advocates, and regulators, we created a public set of privacy guidelines for developing software products and services. These guidelines are based on our internal guidelines and our experience incorporating privacy into the development process. By documenting …
AmLaw Tech Survey: Law Firms Play Variations on Old Themes – “The 11th annual survey finds firms expanding IT while adopting new versions of old standards.”
Press Release, October 18, 2006: “Microsoft Corp. today released to the public Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 for Windows XP, the latest version of the worlds most popular Web browser. Customers can upgrade and browse the Web with confidence knowing that the new browser provides a greater level of security, makes everyday tasks easier, and works …
Joint Status Report on Microsoft’s Compliance with the Final Judgments – Aug 30, 2006.
“Welcome to CodePlex, Microsoft’s community development Web site. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers around the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.”
The un-Google, June 15, 2006, from The Economist print edition (free online, if you view an advert first): “Google dominates the lucrative market for web-search, but its rivals [Microsoft, Ask, Yahoo] are setting out to change that.” Most Microsoft Workers Search With Google – Do employees at Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google use their own search …
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General on Tax Administration Report: Invoice Audit of the Microsoft Consulting Services Contract – TIRNO-03-K-00191, June 2006 (30 pages, PDF).
Joint Status Report on Microsoft’s Compliance with the Final Judgments – May 15, 2006 (25 pages, PDF)
From Microsoft Research, Photo2Search: Explore the Real World via Camera Phone “Seeking information about something seen, a user takes a photo of the object and sends the photo, via e-mail or Multimedia Messaging Service, to a Web-based server, which searches an image database for matches. The server then delivers database informationwhether it be a Web …
