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BY SHAHZAD CHAUDHARY– MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

A friend of mine obtained an early release of Windows 7. Overall he’s satisfied with it. There are some compatibility issues, he reports, but that’s to be expected on an early release.

One of the differences he noticed in Windows 7 was an improvement in [...]

BY SHAHZAD CHAUDHARY– MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced the release of a slimmer version of the PlayStation 3 on Tuesday that will be available in stores Sept. 1st. The slimmer PS3 will have a 120 GB hard drive and will cost $299.

With the introduction of this new product, Sony also announced [...]

BY SHAHZAD CHAUDHARY – MEDILL REPORTS

I first noticed these signs a couple of days ago when I was driving West on Chicago’s I-290: giant billboards promoting Google’s ‘Apps at work.’ Google has launched a massive campaign to promote its business applications (Google Docs, G-mail, Spreadsheet, Presentation) with its cross-hairs set right on Microsoft.

Every day, for one [...]

The highly anticipated deal between Microsoft and Yahoo drew opposite reactions from their share holders.

BY YEWON KANG – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The market’s decision on the highly anticipated deal between Microsoft Corp. [[MSFT]] and Yahoo! Inc. [[YHOO]], announced early Wednesday? Microsoft, the winner, and Yahoo the loser.

Microsoft’s shares closed up 33 cents, or [...]

Bing raised Microsoft’s search market share to 6.5 percent while overall search market shares in June fell by 1.7 percent. (Source: Compete Inc.)

BY YEWON KANG – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Microsoft Corp.’s shares slipped 7 percent after its worse-than-expected earnings release on Thursday.

Net Income in the fiscal fourth [...]

BY SHAHZAD CHAUDHARY – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

There’s a lot of buzz going around currently about the newly announced Google Chrome OS rivaling Microsoft’s successful Windows operating system.

According to a Google blogpost, Google Chrome OS will be a light weight OS that will ‘initially be targeted at netbooks’, which means if Google [...]

(An early version of Bing/businesspundit.com)

By Ming Zhuang/Medill News Service

Will Google be the only dominating search engine in the digital world? Microsoft says no.

According to Ad Age, a trade publication for the advertising industry, Microsoft Corp. [[MSFT]] is set to unveil an $80 million to [...]

A screenshot of IE8 ads on YouTube

BY MING ZHUANG/MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

According to a recent tracking record from Net Applications, a market search firm, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 “has quietly yet quickly” ascended its usage market share to over 3 percent.

“We say ‘quietly’ because Microsoft curiously [...]