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Internet Explorer 8 beta
Reviewed on March 6, 2008
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Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 3.2
service pack for Microsoft Windows Vista
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Google Desktop 4 beta
Reviewed on June 22, 2006
Google Desktop 4 beta is less clunky than its predecessor, and we love the zippy search and creative Sidebar Gadgets. Still, we're wary of handing over our computing habits to Google's servers.
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Google, Sun plan partnership
October 3, 2005
Collaborative effort could raise the profile of OpenOffice.org and Java software--and perhaps bolster Google's challenge to Microsoft.
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Google Calendar colors a CNET reporter's day
May 8, 2006
CNET News.com's Elinor Mills says the search giant's online calendar best suits her needs. And it has nice colors, too.
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Windows Live Local beta
Reviewed on June 2, 2006
Windows Live Local beta's dynamic maps and business directories invite you to plot your own points of interest and collaborate with other users.
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Lenovo loads up on Windows Live Search
March 14, 2007
Microsoft search engine, Windows Live Toolbar to become default on all Lenovo PCs worldwide, replacing Google.
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Move over, Google Sidebar
September 23, 2005
Watson 2.0 for Windows offers desktop-search customization--without raising any real privacy concerns.
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Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality
September 23, 2005
Ten years ago, execs feared the Internet could become a software platform that threatens Windows. They were right.
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Google Scholar beta
Reviewed on April 27, 2006
Google Scholar scours scholarly journals quickly and thoroughly, although Windows Live Academic Search beta better organizes finds on its pages.
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Ballmer: Trusting Vista, battling Google
October 19, 2005
Microsoft's product pipeline is ready to pump out "12 months of the greatest innovation," CEO says. And no, he doesn't throw chairs. Photo: Ballmer on the record
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Most reliable search tool could be your librarian
September 29, 2006
Web search engines may hustle up quick results, but librarians dig up online information you can trust, say experts.
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Google, Yahoo, Microsoft adopt same Web index tool
November 16, 2006
Offers a place to submit Web pages to all three search engines at once, instead of performing the process at each site.
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Microsoft loses top executive in China
January 12, 2007
Li Gong is leaving the software giant to return home, CNET News.com has learned.
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Windows Live Academic Search beta
Reviewed on April 13, 2006
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Gates: Microsoft ready to go 'live'
November 2, 2005
New services tied to Windows and Office are on the way in a "sea change" for the software leviathan. New competitors in Microsoft's crosshairs
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Whine from Google-Microsoft
July 29, 2005
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the latest public spat between these two tech goliaths diverts attention from the core--and more serious--dispute between them.
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Gates on Google: What, me worry?
September 14, 2005
Growing clout of Web-based development is much in evidence as Microsoft courts developers. But is Bill Gates losing sleep? Nah.
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Windows Live hits second generation
June 27, 2007
Microsoft begins testing photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage in its Windows Live services.
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Windows Live Toolbar
Reviewed on July 27, 2006
Windows Live Toolbar can enhance the usefulness of Internet Explorer, make Web surfing more fun, and spare you some mouse clicks--if you take the time to get acquainted with its features.
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