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Microsoft and Yahoo announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal.

Microsoft Corp. and The Webby Awards today kicked off the Microsoft PhizzPop Boys & Girls Clubs of America Design Challenge, giving interactive design agencies of all sizes a chance to showcase their ingenuity and expertise to help Boys & Girls Clubs of America redesign its Web site for the new decade.

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Students ages 16 and over are invited to register for Microsoft Corp.’s eighth annual U.S. Imagine Cup competition, in which students use technology to create innovative solutions that can change the world. Students must register at http://www.imaginecup.us by Feb. 1 for the Spring Round 1 – Qualifying portion of the competition to win the [...]

Windows 7 is now broadly available to the public, and to celebrate this launch Microsoft Hardware is offering deals on some of its innovative products that help make everyday tasks faster and easier with the new operating system. Consumers all over the world are celebrating the availability of Windows 7 by hosting their own [...]

One female blogger and one student blogger will be sent to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games as winners of an online contest announced today by Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC). The winning bloggers will use the latest Microsoft technologies to report daily from the Games alongside members of the credentialed press corps.

Today, at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 have reached the technical preview engineering milestone. Starting today, tens of thousands of people will be invited to test Office and Visio as part of the Technical Preview program.
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Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced the Microsoft Partner Network, the next generation of the Microsoft Partner Program. The Microsoft Partner Network combines the best of Microsoft’s award-winning traditional partner program with a commitment to communities designed to help partners forge deeper connections with customers, with Microsoft and with each other around industry, technical, and business model conversations.

Solution provides public sector organizations with advanced capabilities to track, measure and share information on economic stimulus programs
As part of Microsoft Corp.’s ongoing efforts to help government organizations become more open and transparent, the company today unveiled Stimulus360 (http://www.microsoft.com/government/stimulus360), a Microsoft SharePoint-based solution that can quickly and easily help public sector agencies track, measure [...]

Today at Microsoft Research TechFest 2009, visitors immersed themselves in technologies that promise to change the way people interact with computers, take advantage of new computing power from manycore processors and make datacenters far more energy-efficient. The technologies were being shown as part of TechFest, the research lab’s ninth annual innovation fair that draws [...]

Microsoft Corp. today announced a new initiative, Elevate America, which will provide up to 2 million people over the next three years with the technology training needed to succeed in the 21st-century economy.
Microsoft has worked for years with other businesses and community-based partners to broaden access to job opportunities through information technology education and [...]

Customers can keep in touch with friends and communities on the go through any handset that allows SIM cards.
Microsoft Corp. and Gemalto today announced they are collaborating to offer Windows Live Messenger services to the mass market of mobile subscribers through a new Windows Live Messenger client application that comes pre-installed on phone [...]

1.5 billion minutes watched instantly by Xbox LIVE community.
Microsoft Corp.  and Netflix Inc.  today announced that 1 million Xbox LIVE Gold members have downloaded and activated the groundbreaking Xbox LIVE application from Netflix since the alliance launched last November. In less than three [...]