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Microsoft closes Flight Simulator unit
24 Jan 2009
Microsoft Corp has shut down ACES Studios, its wholly-owned subsidiary that produced Flight Simulator, Microsoft’s longest-running and perhaps most popular game
Windows 7 has 21 new hotkeys
23 Jan 2009
Windows worm spreads rapid infection but may be a dud
19 Jan 2009
Businesses worldwide are under attack from a highly infectious computer worm that has infected almost 9 million PCs, says antivirus company F-Secure.
Microsoft briefly defers Windows 7 Beta
10 Jan 2009
Microsoft scores over Google and Yahoo, to become Verizon's preferred search partner
08 Jan 2009
Distant third behind Google and Yahoo in internet search, Microsoft has emerged as Verizon’s preferred search partner for web search and mobile display advertising services.
Windows 7 beta version leaked
31 Dec 2008
Microsoft to issue emergency security patch to plug Internet Explorer vulnerability
17 Dec 2008
Microsoft will issue an emergency security patch later today for all versions of Internet Explorer
Microsoft launches 'Your World on Live'
16 Dec 2008
Microsoft's global ad sales head to leave
13 Dec 2008
Miscrosoft to enter cloud computing
10 Dec 2008
Miscrosoft says it is moving into cloud computing by having web versions of Word, Excel and other programs that make up the Microsoft Office suite to go online next year
Microsoft to invest $1 billion in China R&D
14 Nov 2008
Cornered Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang looks to Microsoft for succour
06 Nov 2008
Yahoo CEO Jery Yang is considering returning to the bargaining table with Microsoft after its proposed ad share alliance with Google is aborted by the justice department.
Microsoft, LG sign mobile technology pact
03 Nov 2008
Windows 7 A Good Fit For Netbooks
30 Oct 2008
Microsoft is working on a version of its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system that would be able to work on netbook PCs
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation