Good news continued to pile up for the electronics industry. The ongoing economic uncertainty calls for continued innovations. So goes Windows 7. Raphael met Jean-Philippe Courtois, he is the President of Microsoft International.
US software giant Microsoft has reported a first-quarter net profit of 3.57 billion dollars, down 18% from a year earlier but in excess of analysts' forecasts.
Microsoft has launched his new operating system ‘Windows 7’ with two purposes: win back the PC users disappointed by Windows Vista and keep on his war with Apple. Is the system up to the challenge?
Microsoft wants its fans to hold parties to celebrate the launch of Windows 7. After the spectacular failure of Windows Vista, is Microsoft back on track?
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer launched the latest version of Windows for mobile phones on Tuesday in the French head office of the American giant in an offensive against Apple's iPhone and Google's Android mobile software.
Passwords belonging to some users of Microsoft's Hotmail email service were exposed on an Internet site, but they have since been taken down. Some reports suggested that passwords to more than 10,000 accounts were exposed.
After being ordered by a US court to pay a record-breaking 388 million dollars in compensation to Uniloc for infringing on a patent held by the software firm last April, Microsoft has had the decision overturned on appeal.
"Visual search", the new feature of Microsoft's Bing, lets Web users search using images instead of text. It's the first major update of the search engine, giving users something that competitor and market leader Google doesn't yet have.
In this edition: Gabon's presidential election was followed closely by the blogosphere; the debate surrounding Microsoft’s "racist" gaffe grows online, and an American attacks his government’s interventionism.
Wednesday saw Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! join the Open Book Alliance, which has expressed concern about 'serious legal, competitive and policy issues' surrounding Google's book-scanning project.
