10 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
Bill Gates and billionaire Warren Buffett set up the Giving Pledge in 2010. It follows the Microsoft founder's work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, set up in 1994 to improve healthcare and reduce poverty globally, and to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology ...
22 Oct 2008
| by Stephen Foster
with Google is on hold while the regulators take a closer look. Earlier this year Microsoft bid $33 a share ...
that some optimists think Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, who will announce Microsoft's latest figures after ...
24 Oct 2007
| by Stephen Foster
Ever since commercials director Ridley Scott blasted a hole in the gong of ignorance in 1984 (the ad that launched the Macintosh computer -- which only ran once, by the way) Apple has struggled to make the world the way it wanted to and fought a losing a battle with Microsoft (Bill Gates ...
06 May 2005
| by by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The involvement of blogging in marketing has taken a step up with the news that Microsoft...Microsoft is planning to release a trial version of the system, which has been nicknamed Longhorn, this summer. The full version is likely to emerge in late 2006.
It is looking for 20 bloggers from its ...
", according to Microsoft's employer Robert Scoble, who writes a blog about the company.
The software ...
11 May 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nike and Microsoft have all seen a decline in the number of people...three point decline to 33% in 2004, while Microsoft, possibly suffering more from problems with its ...
07 Nov 2003
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Microsoft has announced that it will offer $250,000 in reward money to people who provide...-president and general counsel at Microsoft, said: "Malicious worms and viruses are criminal attacks on everyone who uses ...
virulent and targeted a Microsoft website giving information on updating Windows to protect against such viruses. No one has been arrested over the attack.
Microsoft has joined forces with three law ...
24 Oct 2003
Microsoft is talking to advertising networks about a 400 million project to unite its customer...the review is being run out of Microsoft's US head office, the UK market is considered to be a European hub ...
to produce all of Microsoft's direct marketing and sales promotion material and put in place an international CRM system to manage the responses that this material generates.
Microsoft is emulating its rival ...
13 May 2003
| by Juliette Garside,
supported by Microsoft, Cable & Wireless and the government web promotion scheme UK Online. Sponsorship ...
26 Mar 2003
| by Staff,
, Microsoft, 3Com and IBM.
Anders Edlund, marketing director for the Bluetooth SIG, said: "Our goal ...
01 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
'Fifa Football 2003' can be played across a number of platforms, including PC, Nintendo GameCube and Gameboy Advance, Sony PlayStation2, and Microsoft's Xbox.
The ads, created by Wieden the focus this year is on the hardcore gamers, as well as the more mainstream segments."
The ads were shot over ...