Microsoft Launches Tech News Aggregator

Microsoft has released a tech news aggregator at microsoft.com/web that seemingly has little or nothing to do with Live Search News, though I have to wonder if it might be integrated somehow further down the road. The site is broken down into tabbed categories for the home page, inspiration, methods, business, events, blogs, and [...]

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Yahoo! strikes deal with Google

Yahoo! Inc. has agreed to let Google Inc. sell some of the advertisements it runs alongside Internet searches, seeking to shore up sales after ending talks with Microsoft Corp. about a combination. The deal may add $800 million a year to sales, Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., said Thursday in a statement. The companies will [...]

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Microsoft Releases adCenter Desktop Beta

Today’s the first day of SMX Advanced 2008 in Seattle, and the President of Microsoft’s Platform & Services Division, Kevin Johnson, announced the release of adCenter Desktop Beta only moments ago. Traditionally, the only means for managing adCenter campaigns was through a web browser, which could be quite tedious and inefficient for large or complex [...]

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Microsoft finishes big XP update

Microsoft said on Monday that it has wrapped up development of its long-awaited Service Pack 3 update to Windows XP. The update, which consists of previously released updates and a few new bug fixes and changes, will be available for download via the Web on April 29. Microsoft said it plans to start pushing out [...]

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