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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveil Microsoft Surface at All Things Digital conference, “the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology.
Surface computing technology can recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content [...]

Microsoft announced today that it will acquire aQuantive for $6 billion in an all cash deal. aQuantive is a digital marketing company
The deal comes at a time when major acquisitions are going in the advertising industry, Recently Yahoo said that it will acquire Right Media, Google is acquiring DoubleClick and yesterday WPP announced to [...]

Microsoft to announce the release of Popfly private beta today. Popfly is a web based software application to create mashups, widgets and other applications, Popfly is built on Microsoft Silverlight.
What is Popfly

Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.
Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you [...]

Folks at Microsoft Research Bangalore, India are developing a software that can split a computer screen in two halves, each half can act as an individual computer with its own operating system, desktop, cursor and keyboard.
This will help small businesses in developing countries like India who have limited resources to deploy several systems.

“At the [...]

Microsoft is looking to acquire a majority stake in Yahoo according to a report published in New York Post. After the loss of DoubleClick to Google Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo to negotiate the deal. The two companies have held talks over the years for a possible merger, the latest talks indicate urgency from [...]

Microsoft announced streaming support for Silverlight at Mix07 conference, the service allows web develeopers to host and stream up to 4Gb of videos for free. The videos can be streamed at 700kbps. Silverlight streaming works in conjunction with Silverlight browser plugin released earlier. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media [...]