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Microsoft and antitrust regulators are meeting this week, as part of a status conference on the software giant's compliance with a final judgment order stemming from its consent decree.

Microsoft is clearly worried about Google as a competitive threat. But the bigger worry continues to be open source, according to Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.

Ozzie, speaking at Sanford C.

Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Wednesday, said that while Google is a "tremendously strong competitor...open ...

A view of space from Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope

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Microsoft is ready to boldly take Web surfers where no man has gone before.

Microsoft's attempt to acquire Yahoo is expensive, but there could be a significant other expense for the software maker: retention bonuses.

Yahoo's board of directors on Sunday reportedly hashed over Microsoft's three-week deadline to close its mega-merger bid, according to a report in the Financial Times

Microsoft said Wednesday that the first release candidate of its Hyper-V hypervisor will be available for download.

This release will be the near-final code of the virtualization utility that Microsoft is building into Windows Server 2008.

The final version will be available in August, according to Microsoft.

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Microsoft and Yahoo are holding informal merger discussions, marking a shift from the "radio silence" that previously existed between the two companies, according to a source familiar with the talks.

A lot has changed over the past two weeks, compared with February 1 when Microsoft issued its unsolicited buyout bid for Yahoo, ...

A view of space from Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope

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Microsoft on Wednesday gave TED conference-goers--an audience typically filled with stars like Goldie Hawn or Forest Whitaker--a close-up of real celestial bodies with its new virtual telescope.

Microsoft is proposing on Monday a new way for marketers to think about the value of clicks on Internet ads, with the understanding that the last click a consumer makes isn't necessarily the most important.

Say a consumer sees an ad for a product in a video ad one ...

Got a good idea for a healthcare application? If so, you could get as much as $500,000 in funding from Microsoft.

(Credit: Microsoft)Microsoft has created a $3 million fund to invest in applications built for its HealthVault electronic medical records platform, the company was set to announce on ...