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In bid to get more people to use Web-based applications, Google Inc. acquired DocVerse, a technology start-up that allows users to collaborate on Microsoft Office files online.

Microsoft said it will stick to its development strategy for the China Internet search market regardless of the outcome of Google's high-profile spat with Beijing.

Microsoft Corp is aiming to launch two phones that will be sold by top U.S. mobile operator Verizon Wireless in late spring or early summer, a person briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

Microsoft plans to spend $9.5 billion on research and development this year, which a senior executive said Thursday is more than any competitor.

Microsoft is still seeing a lot of interest in its Windows 7 computer software launched last year and a new budget cycle will help a gradual recovery in business spending, its chief operating officer said.

Microsoft Chief Financial Officer said Windows 7 has sold 90 million licenses since its October 2009 launch.

Investment fund Elliott Associates offered to buy business software maker Novell Inc for $2 billion, sending its shares up 28 percent as investors hoped for a better bid.

Microsoft is still seeing a lot of interest in its Windows 7 computer software launched last year and a new budget cycle will help a gradual recovery in business spending, its chief operating officer said.

Opera Software said on Wednesday it had seen a surge in downloads of its browser after Microsoft started making it easier for Europeans to choose smaller rivals' browsers.

Yahoo Inc CEO Carol Bartz said she does not believe Yahoo needs to discuss Google Inc's Internet search practices with government regulators.

As collaborative applications become ever more important for enterprise, a new report finds that the number of enterprise customers using mobile cloud-based applications will rise to more than 130 million by 2014, facilitated by platform as a service (PaaS) deployments from key players such as Google and Microsoft.

Microsoft denies reports that no current-generation phones will be upgradeable to the forthcoming Windows Mobile 7 which is set to be released later this year.

Google claims Microsoft is taking over lawsuits and complaints brought by third parties to stir up antitrust complaints against them.

Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its Internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators.

Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators.

Software giant Microsoft Corp has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes, the Wall Street Journal said.

Microsoft announced on Monday its bid to help local languages to be integrated online more effectively. As part of their Unlimited Potential program, Microsoft is offering its software in 67 local languages.

DENVER - It's been more than six years since then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates admitted that Apple caught the company flat-footed in the digital music market and directed his team to make up for lost ground, according to recently surfaced internal e-mails.

Microsoft Corp's assault on search engine leader Google Inc took a major step forward on Thursday as U.S. and European regulators cleared the software company's search partnership with Yahoo Inc.

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc said on Thursday they have won unconditional approval from regulators in the United States and Europe for a planned search deal that would challenge market leader Google Inc.

Microsoft won unconditional European Union approval on Thursday for its planned search deal with Yahoo Inc to challenge market leader Google.