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Microsoft files lawsuit over click fraud

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Microsoft Corp filed a lawsuit against three individuals believed to be based in Vancouver, accusing them of a form of click fraud by improperly using Microsoft's online advertising service for profit, court documents show.
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Bing tries to be porn-free by offering filtering

After receiving widespread criticism over how easy it was for children to find porn on Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, the company said it has made changes that allow parents to monitor or block what their children see on their site.
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Microsoft to unveil free anti-virus software

Microsoft Corp is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for personal computers that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc.
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Microsoft sees some Russian issues resolved soon

Microsoft's Russia unit can resolve some of the issues raised in an anti-monopoly probe by providing information and will fully comply to resolve the rest of them, the CEO of Microsoft Rus LLC said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft gets Bing bump in first week, ComScore says

In the first week since Microsoft's Bing.com went live, traffic to the site has increased into double digits for the first time in two years, but this is only the beginning and time will tell how well the search engine does in the long run.
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Microsoft reports record number of security flaws

Microsoft Corp issued software to fix 31 security flaws in its programs, a single-day record for the company whose products are targeted by hackers because they sit on the vast majority of computers.
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Microsoft's Bing makes early gains: study

Microsoft Corp is making early gains on Internet search leaders Google Inc and Yahoo Inc with its Bing search engine that launched last week, according to industry data firm comScore.
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Microsoft exec sees lower margins from cloud

Microsoft Corp's chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services -- broadly known as cloud computing -- would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company's existing software business.
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Microsoft Windows 7 to hit market in October

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday its new Windows 7 operating system will be generally available on October 22, well ahead of its original schedule and in time for the holiday shopping season.
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China blocks Twitter service ahead of anniversary

Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown.

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