Microsoft will continue to offer limited 'extended' support until 2014. Microsoft ends so-called "mainstream" support for Windows XP on Tuesday, April 14, 2009. After that date, the company will provide "extended" support for another five years until April 8, 2014. However, extended support only includes free security fixes along with paid per-incident support as well as support contracts. "During the Extended support phase Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will provide paid support (example: per-incident telephone/web…
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Analysis: Microsoft and its PC partners hope Windows 7 can drive PC sales, even in a down economy. No two recessions are the same, and the shakedown hitting the U.S., indeed the global economy, is very different from the one experienced in 2000-2002. That was a powerful combination of the Silicon Valley getting hit directly from the dot-bomb implosion and the overall U.S. economy shattered by the events on September…
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Microsoft responds saying it is laying off those it can most do without, citizens or not. In wake of impending layoffs, Microsoft has released a preliminary response to a U.S. Senator who wants the software giant to cut non-citizens first. The upshot – it's not that simple. Microsoft's answer states that it will indeed layoff a significant number of H-1B temporary work visa holders but that their visiting worker status will not…
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It's 1997 again. Antitrust violations go back 12 years, according to the Europe's antitrust commissioner. Big bucks are at stake. [/caption] Remember what a rough time Microsoft had with the European Commission's (EC) competition directorate in 2007 and 2008? If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thought those days of antitrust proceedings were receding into the past, he has another thing coming. The EC has sent Microsoft a so-called "Statement of Objections," or SO, indicating…
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