05 Nov 09 Microsoft cuts 800 jobs, completes layoff plan

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is cutting a further 800 jobs across its operations, on top of 5,000 jobs already eliminated under a plan to reduce costs that was announced in January.
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05 Nov 09 Microsoft preps SQL Server for battle in two enterprise arenas

Routinely accused of bloating Windows and Office, Microsoft has acted more like a skinny teenage boy with enterprise apps like SQL Server: desperate to bulk up.

King of the middleweight databases, SQL Server has yet to be fully accepted by the big boys, admits Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server & Tools division. "Really large data warehouses and extremely large scale-up apps are the last high-end problems" remaining for SQL Server, Muglia said in a keynote at the PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server) users' conference in Seattle on Monday.

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22 Jan 10 Microsoft issues emergency "Google attack" patch

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Thursday released a patch to protect users of its Internet Explorer browser from attacks similar to those directed at Google Inc's operations in China last week.
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05 Jun 10 AOL shares up on Microsoft bid target talk

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Shares of Internet firm AOL Inc rose in a broader market sell off on Friday as talk circulated that it may be an acquisition target for Microsoft Corp.
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25 Jul 10 Microsoft profit beats Street but stock unmoved

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp easily beat Wall Street forecasts with a 48 percent rise in quarterly profit, but its shares barely moved in the absence of powerful new signs of a rebound in global tech spending.
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