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Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has released

April 22, 2008 – 10:24 am

Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Microsoft has released their Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) yesterday at with the announcement in microsoft forum.
They are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 New and exciting features

March 5, 2008 – 9:55 pm

New and exciting features
Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Activities

Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two [...]

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Microsoft announced its bid to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion

February 23, 2008 – 11:02 am

Early today, Microsoft announced its bid to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. The offer amounts to $31 per share, a 62 percent increase over Yahoo’s stock price of $19.18 on Thursday. The proposed deal, as widely reported, signals Microsoft’s intensified aggression against Google, which dominates Internet search with 60 percent of the market, as well [...]