Microsoft Ventures Into Robotics With Microsoft Robotics Studio

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots. "We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways," said d David Woods, professor of integrated systems engineering at Ohio State University.

March 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - In a bid to provide access to entrepreneurial, technology and financial resources in one place to accelerate the success of high-potential technology startups, IDG Ventures India and Microsoft India today announced an 'Early Stage Funding Program'. This partnership will offer dual benefit to the startups registering for Microsoft BizSpark wherein they will get a funding of up to 25 crore rupees by IDG Ventures and access to Microsoft suite including the latest tools and technologies at no cost.

October 11th, 2005 In the VSLive Conference in Orlando, BJ Holtgrewe, Senior Production Manager for Visual Studio made some outrageous claims like: Holtgrewe's chat was also peppered with competitive messages, noting that U.S. DevTracker found that 53 percent of software development is being done on .NET these days, leaving Java scrambling for the remainder of the pie.

June 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Space and robotics technology have been combined to develop an advanced Precision Forestry Positioning System, which allows more efficient forest planning and harvesting. Invented by researchers at the Institute of Man-Machine-Interaction at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, the system has helped catalogue 240 million single trees in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia.

February 28th, 2009 Browser brothers are up against Microsoft monopoly over Internet browsers. Google is the latest to join the fight confirming its participation with EU in the antitrust case against Microsoft regarding Internet Explorer.  The case was registered by EU after web browser developer, Opera filed a formal complaint against Microsoft.

September 30th, 2009 Microsoft to release free antivirus PC softwareREDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp.

July 16th, 2009 Microsoft plans stores 'right next door to Apple'SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp.'s chief operating officer says the software maker is planning to open retail stores "right next door to Apple" in the fall. The executive, Kevin Turner, also says Microsoft is "in the game for the long-term" and has hired a retail team.

August 2nd, 2005 Debugging guidelines for NetBeans and Sun Java Studio Enterprise. Debugging Tips for Applications Built With Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7 Debugging Java Software using NetBeans 3.6

May 8th, 2008 I was amazed to find Microsoft design engineer Mugunthan Mugundan teaching Java (how to create REST output using Java) using Eclipse IDE. I found it rich in irony at many levels.

January 22nd, 2009 Do you want to download a Micorosft Software Development Kit and find Microsoft homesite too confusing to choose the right one? Or are you a random downloader who loves to collect the full series of anything so that you can choose whichever is best for you when the situation arises. In both the cases, I have good news for you.

October 21st, 2008 What is it with Microsoft & Apple? PC doesn't mean Microsoft Windows anymore. You can use a PC and still use Linux, BSD or even Mac.

April 30th, 2008 Months after Microsoft announced its intention to buy Yahoo, it appears they are finally coming together. Microsoft appears to be willing to raise the price to 32-33$ per share while Yahoo board would be satisfied with $35.

December 18th, 2005 Microsoft plans to make India a hub for research, product and applications development. It announced plans for investing $1.7 billion over the next four years, and increasing local headcount by 3,000 to 7,000-level.

June 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to dispel fears about the vulnerability of Windows to viruses and other malware, Microsoft Tuesday released a trial version of a new free security package called Microsoft Security Essentials. The software is designed to replace the Windows Defender tool that Microsoft released in 2007, but which was widely derided as being inadequate to protect computers from the constant and ever-evolving threats posed by hackers.

January 12th, 2006 The US Patent and Trademark Office has declared that patents Microsoft holds on file allocation tables (FAT) are valid. Unfortunately Linux OS uses FAT file system.