<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : microsoft : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : microsoft : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/4283/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks, if not days.  But what do some of its toughest testers think?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/12987/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft group president Jeff Raikes told an audience in San Francisco last week that the company hopes people, if they&#8217;re going to pirate software, choose to pirate Microsoft software. What&#8217;s Raikes thinking?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo to say NO to Microsoft]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/50078/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that has failed to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of Web search, plans to reject a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., a person familiar with the situation said.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Office Art: Excel Portraits, Mosaics and Videos]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/132961/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Art is everywhere. With some creativity applied you can even turn the world of numbers and formulas into art. Here are a few examples of Excel artworks to show how Microsoft Office can be used creatively.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Reveals Windows Vista SP1 will install XP]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/36036/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Redmond, WA &#8211; In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/49123/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has launched a $44.6bn (&#163;22.4bn) takeover bid for Yahoo in an attempt to challenge the growing might of Google.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU probes Microsoft again!]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/47215/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Look out Microsoft, the EU is coming to get you - again! Should have made Vista better!!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Releases Its First iPhone Application]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/84987/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Live Labs, the division of Microsoft which was created to develop Web 2.0 applications and features has just announced it's first iPhone Application called Seadragon.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/27673/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Bans Microsoft From Selling Word ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130606/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction on Tuesday preventing Microsoft from selling versions of Word that handle custom XML in the form of the .DOCX, .DOCM, and .XML file formats<br/><br/>More <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/microsoft-forbidden-from-selling-word-will-probably-keep-sellin/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> with some interesting links]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Hit With Class Action Suit Over Xbox Live Fees ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41662/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A Georgia man claims Microsoft improperly allowed his underage son to use his debit card to subscribe to the company's Xbox Live gaming service.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/92067/1/</link><description><![CDATA[When you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, Microsoft installs a firefox extension. You are not notified that this will happen, nor are you given an option to install or not install. Not only that but the uninstall button is disabled. The only way to uninstall the extension is via registry hacks.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could Microsoft Pip Apple To The Post With A Tablet Device]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133568/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For the longest time rumours have been rife about an tablet computer from Apple with nothing concrete confirmed.  It seems that all the while Microsoft have been quietly developing their own and now it's at an advanced prototype stage theyv'e started to share details.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Sells 10 Million Xbox 360 Consoles In North America]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62011/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is the first console manufacturer to sell 10 million consoles in North America...<br/><br/>Now, is that 10 million functioning consoles?<br/><br/>Or, is that including the 30 odd percent that failed with the <i>Red Ring of Death</i>?<br/><br/>BWAA HAA HAA HAA HAA!!!!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Vine: Emergency Social Networking]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/110489/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released Vine, software aimed at helping friends &amp; relatives connect during times of crisis. Apparently inspired by Hurricane Katrina.<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.pcworld.com/article/163974/microsofts_vine_emergency_social_networking.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alternate Article</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft sued over Xbox Live outage.]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46411/1/</link><description><![CDATA[XBox Live had some issues over the holidays with the massive influx of new users.  Some people could not access the service and so they are now sueing Microsoft for damages.<br/><br/>Wait...A game server is down and you're damaged?  I guess they had nothing else to do if they can't play online. For God's sake...read a friggin' book!!!<br/><br/>BTW..They plan on giving a free acrade game to everyone.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft re-designs the iPod package]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/54206/1/</link><description><![CDATA[What if Microsoft re-designed the iPod package...?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Getting Hip With Open Source]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/36808/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This article talks about Microsoft and their Open Source AJAX project.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest Microsoft Bug - Real Mosquitoes]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/92910/1/</link><description><![CDATA[What's all the buzz about?  Microsoft founder Bill Gates let loose mosquitoes into the crowd at the TED Conference. <br/><br/>The crowd was abuzz, literally. One attendee, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar jumped on his Twitter account to say, &quot;That's it.  I am not sitting up front anymore.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer performing a curious dance on Microsoft 25th Anniversary. ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/32995/1/</link><description><![CDATA[What could possibly make Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's onstage antics even better? A techno remix, of course!]]></description></item></channel></rss>