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- Oil Company Fuels Business Application Availability With Virtualization Solution
- INA is a Croatian oil company. Its IT staff did not have efficient tools for testing and upgrading software, which slowed deployment to the production environment. Staff also had problems accessing information from an aging file server. INA deployed Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and automated its test environment to ensure...
- Tags: Oil Company, Virtualization, Business Application, File Server, INA, File Servers, Storage Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Croatia-Based Oil Firm Enhances Operations, Achieves 100 Per Cent Accurate Retail Data
- INA is a leading oil and gas provider in Croatia. Established in 1964, the company employs more than 15,000 people at its regional offices, and gas and retail stores. Until 2006, INA business and marketing teams relied on the sales data provided by gas and retail stores to manage stock...
- Tags: Croatia, Microsoft Corp., INA, Retail, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales
- Case studies 2008-04-09
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- Microsoft investigating 'black screen of death'
- Microsoft said that it is looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some serious problems for certain users. Microsoft said on Monday that it is looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some serious problems for certain users. The problem...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Security Update, Black Screen, Patches, Security Administration, Microsoft, security, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-12-01
- Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll
- Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." ...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 7, Microsoft, Ballmer, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-11-20
- Microsoft designs laptop for developer giveaway
- Windows division president Steven Sinofsky took his Windows team through the process of designing and building a Windows 7 laptop in conjunction with Acer. LOS ANGELES--As a software guy, Windows division president Steven Sinofsky readily admits that he had little idea of all that goes into building a laptop....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Microsoft, Acer, laptop, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-11-19
- Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds
- In a lengthy interview, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talked about clouds, lessons Microsoft learned from the recent Sidekick outage as well as why people are wrong to count Microsoft out of the smartphone race. When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Microsoft, cloud, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-11-18
- Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with cancer, according to a memo sent on Monday to employees of Vulcan, Allen's company. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with cancer, according to a memo sent on Monday to employees...
- Tags: Paul Allen, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-11-17
- Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation
- Hackers have managed to find a way around one of the key antipiracy protections built into Windows 7. Hackers have managed to find a way around one of the key antipiracy protections built into Windows 7. Ordinarily, the operating system requires users to activate their copy...
- Tags: Antipiracy, Hacker, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Hacking, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Security, Windows 7, activation, piracy, Ina Fried CNET News
- News items 2009-11-16
- Photos: Inside a Microsoft data center
- CNET News' Ina Fried tours Microsoft's massive new Chicago-area data center during recent grand opening event. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, CNET News, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, CNET News.com, news
- Image galleries 2009-11-02
- Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
- CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, News, Microsoft, data, center, container, server
- Videos 2009-11-02
- EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?
- M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Exclusive hands-on with Project Natal
- CNET News' Ina Fried got a chance to try out Microsoft's motion-sensing video game technology and talk to some of the folks who are aiming to help Microsoft transform the Xbox 360.
- Tags: Video Game, Video, Microsoft Corp., CNET News, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, News, Natal, Project, Microsoft, demo, games, controler
- Videos 2009-08-07
- Yahoo's SearchMonkey, BOSS efforts likely to die on the vine
- Microsoft execs say that they may be open to Yahoo search technologies such as SearchMonkey and BOSS Build your Own Search Service. Yahoo acknowledges it has nothing concrete to say about the future of SearchMonkey and BOSS. What's a developer to do? Try walking away. ...
- Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., SearchMonkey, BOSS, CNet News, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- International Polar Year: data on climate change
- The results are now becoming clear from the International Polar Year IPY: earlier estimates of climate change were too mild. Change is happening faster than the IPCC expected. We all know the once mythical Northwest Passage now exists, in summer you can take your ship from Europe across...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-25
- Could Windows on a thumb drive = Microsoft StartKey?
- In reading News.com's Ina Fried's blog post about Microsoft mulling the delivery of Windows 7 on a thumb drive, I couldn't help but remember Microsoft's StartKey project. StartKey was a Microsoft project to deliver a "Windows companion" on a stick. I wrote about Microsoft StartKey last year....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Project, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Microsoft to scale back Soapbox video service
- I think I may have been on vacation back in 2006 on the day that Microsoft announced Soapbox, a video service that was going to challenge YouTube. Soapbox was never on my radar and, it appears, it really never made it to anyone's radar. Now, Microsoft says...
- Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Soapbox, Video, Video Service
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Microsoft, Mississippi settle over software pricing
- Ina Fried at News.com reports that Microsoft has settled with the state of Mississippi over the price of Office and Windows. Microsoft will pay the state $40 million and provide $60 million in vouchers to consumers and local governments. Consumers and businesses that bought Windows 95, Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Mississippi, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Microsoft doesn't win at everything
- Rest in peace Microsoft Money. It won't be the first creation from the software giant to flop and it won't be the last. And that's just fine. There's a good bit of hubbub about the demise of Microsoft Money Techmeme. Yes, Intuit is the victor with Quicken,...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., CNet News, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month
- A Microsoft spokesperson just confirmed for me the news I first read a few minutes ago in a story by Ina Fried of CNET News. The official date on which Windows 7 will be available for general purchase is October 22, 2009. The RTM code will be delivered...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
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