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Developers Tune In to Microsoft’s Channel 9

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*Channel 9 has been broadcasting from inside Microsoft’s labs and offices since 2004, giving a large community of developers an insider’s view of the people behind the company’s products and technologies.*

REDMOND, Wash – Passengers on United Airlines flights have long turned their in-flight entertainment dials to Channel 9 to hear what’s happening in the cockpit. For more than seven years, developers have had a similar opportunity to get inside the mind of Microsoft.

Microsoft’s Channel 9 – named for United’s cockpit channel – has been broadcasting since 2004 from inside the company’s offices and labs. Be it quirky Halloween videos that get hundreds of thousands of hits or hour-long interviews with the company’s most talented engineers, Channel 9 pulls back the curtain at Microsoft to reveal its human side. (more…)

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Microsoft Lync 2010: The Future of Communications, Right Now

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*Microsoft Lync puts people at the center of communications, connecting in new ways, across the PC, phone and browser.* 

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 17, 2010 — Three years ago, the introduction of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) changed the way people stay connected. An individual’s identity and presence became the center of business communication, thanks to the integration of unified communications across e-mail, voice, instant messaging, audio- and videoconference tasks — and even desktop sharing. People could choose how to manage their conversations, redirect calls, set their level of availability, and decide how and when they could be reached.  (more…)

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Microsoft Helps Demi and Ashton (DNA) Foundation Fight Online Child Exploitation

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REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 23, 2010 — The Demi and Ashton (DNA) Foundation today announced they have enlisted Microsoft to help combat child sex trafficking online, the actors announced Thursday at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City.

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Next Up for Microsoft: Bring Internet to Everyone

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REDMOND, Wash. — Three decades after Bill Gates dreamed of a PC in every home, Microsoft is partnering with governments around the world on a dream to get every home online.

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America’s Billionaires and Their Traits

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It’s about a month that Forbes published its annual list of America’s 400 wealthiest citizens (of these 371 are billionaires).

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Gates – how he is going to spend time now

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Among the few names that is known worldwide and very popular ‘Bill Gates’ is one of them. Although Mexico’s telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu and America’s most beloved investor Warren Buffet are now ahead of him, but they are somewhat unknown to the mass people. None of these two gentlemen developed an operating system that millions of people use everyday or the internet explorer that most of the internet-goers browse through. So Gates is in our daily life for the last many years and will be keeping his position for the coming times as well.

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