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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to offer code protection, validation to other software developers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=575]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is planning to deliver on October 1 to third-party software developers a set of technologies that will allow them to add code protection and activation mechanisms to their own software.When Microsoft first unveiled its "Genuine Software" initiative three years ago, company officials said they planned to license to third...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:09:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's goal: More than 2 billion served by 2015]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=400]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ How do you keep growing the market for Windows and Office desktop software when you already have cornered in excess of 90 percent of the market? One way is to grow the market.  Thats Microsofts goal with its expanded Unlimited Potential program, via which it plans to sell...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:09:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Post Vista, Microsoft reorgs the Windows group]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=287]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As typical, following a major product release, Microsoft is reorging. This time, following Windows Vistas launch, its Windows client business unit doing the shuffle, according to sources close to the company.  Heres whats happening. Kevin Johnson, head of Microsofts uber Platforms and Services unit, has created a new business...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:08:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft set to publicize list of 800 Vista-compatible apps]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=271]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmers recent comments designed to dampen Wall Streets expectations for Windows Vista, the Windows team itself is continuing to do all it can to encourage customer uptake of the newest version of Windows.  On February 20, Microsoft announced final availabilty of six Vista...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:13:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer's list: Microsoft's CEO shares his top nine Microsoft growth picks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=263]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has come up with a list of the nine "opportunities" where he believes Microsoft can sustain a half billion or more in new margin growth over the next three years.  On February 15, Ballmer shared that list with Wall Street analysts and shareholders who participated...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:34:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft back ports license-management system to Windows Server 2003]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=257]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As Microsoft promised late last year, the company has ported some of its volume-activation technology to Windows Server 2003.  Microsoft has made available for download 32- and 64-bit versions of its Key Management Service for Windows Server 2003  Service Pack SP 1 systems, as noted on the Windows...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:06:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Genuine Advantage: Can Microsoft recast itself as protector, not punisher?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=207]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldnt want Cori Hartjes job. She is the head of Microsofts much-maligned Genuine Software Initiative -- the team  responsible for implementing Windows Genuine Advantage and Office Genuine Advantage.  Hartje was on a cross-country press tour last week. Microsoft has no new Genuine Advantage lockdowns to announce as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:15:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can Microsoft stay a step ahead of the Vista pirates?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=154]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Microsoft began making available to select Windows Vista users an update to Vista that is aimed at thwarting downloaders who are circumventing Vistas build-in product activation. But is Microsofts solution going to do much to stop the so-called "frankenbuilds" that combine combining test versions of Vista with the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:58:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tasty Microsoft leftovers from Thanksgiving weekend]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=115]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The last bits of my Thanksgiving tofurkey are history. Here&rsquo;s a quick survey of some of the Microsoft news from the past few days about which I didn&rsquo;t have a chance to blog.  One more time: Is there an Office &lsquo;Kill Switch&rsquo;? So is there or isn&rsquo;t there an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:23:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yes, there is an Office 2007 &#39;kill switch&#39;]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=111]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Buried in a Knowledge Base article that Microsoft published to the Web on November 14 are details of Microsoft&rsquo;s plans to combat Office 2007 piracy via new Office Genuine Advantage lockdowns.  When asked last month whether Microsoft was planning to punish alleged Office 2007 pirates by crippling the functionality...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:20:52 -0800</pubDate>
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