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    Windows 8 Google Acquisition, Windows 8, Office 365 Outage Marked Microsoft's Week

    Microsoft's week included new glimpses of Windows 8, an Office 365 outage and reaction to Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Link Removed
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    Skype continues to go its own way (this time with video codecs)

    Skype continues to go its own way (this time with video codecs) | ZDNet
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    Microsoft’s Skype acquisition expected to close by October

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    Microsoft touts Windows 7 sales

    [Updated, July 12] -- CEO Steve Ballmer opened Microsoft's 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Los Angeles with a broad-based discussion of everything from Windows 8 to the Skype acquisition. More than 400 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold in two years, he told his audience. Link...
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    Microsoft's Ballmer Talks Windows 8, Skype, Windows Phone at WPC

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opened the 2011 WPC in Los Angeles with a broad-based discussion of everything from Windows 8 to the Skype acquisition. Link Removed
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    After Spurning Android, HP May Offer Windows 8 Tablets

    For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs . Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS. HP's tablet strategy --to...
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    Supreme Court Decision, 'Windows 8' Rumors Marked Microsoft's Week

    Microsoft's week involved losing a major Supreme Court case and siding with AT&T's acquisition plans for T-Mobile. 'Windows 8' rumors also abounded. Link Removed
  8. reghakr

    Windows 7 Microsoft purchases Skype

    Skype buy was a Microsoft tax dodge Ballmer gets a win win scenario says analyst A financial analyst has said that Microsoft's $8.5 billion buy of Skype is a tax dodge and the US taxpayer will end up paying for half the bill. Larry Elkin, of Palisades Hudson, said that Microsoft's...
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    Windows 7 Western Digital to buy Hitachi disk division for $4.3B

    Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...
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    Windows 7 Intel to Buy McAfee For $7.68 Billion

    Full article: Link Removed I wonder if they will change the name? Maybe, McIntel or Intelafee Link Removed due to 404 Error
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    Intel to Buy Security Giant McAfee - for 7.68 billion.

    Intel announced a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee's common stock fo $7.68 billion, in a move unanimously supported by the board of directors of both companies. The deal, which is part of Intel's new strategy to focus on security as much as it does on energy efficiency, has still to...
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    Windows 7 Sad news for VLC fans worldwide.

    VideoLAN acquired by RealNetworks This is some sad news for thousands of VLC users who have moved from Real Player to the superior performance of VLC Player. (This $30 fee that they are going to slip in here is kinda like our garbage service that has started an area wide recycling service...