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  • Microsoft Web plan takes aim at Google

    Microsoft plans to open access to MSN and its other public Web sites to let developers assemble new applications that build on those sites -- a technique used successfully at Google and other Web companies to promote their properties.

  • MSN's Web search picks up steam

    Microsoft's MSN is slowly turning up the dial on its Web search beta, sending more and more visitors home-baked results over results from partner Yahoo.

  • New Microsoft set-top box ready to roll

    Microsoft plans to start shipping a new set-top box next week, and it's not your grandmother's WebTV.

  • Microsoft reveals aggressive Web search plans

    Microsoft plans to introduce a news aggregation service for Web logs and to develop a social networking product, a company executive said at an event in North America Friday.

  • Interpreting search

    The newscaster at Qatar's Aljazeera network read off the day's headlines in Arabic in a Web video clip. A few moments later, a transcript was available in English.

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  • Web 2.0 meets the enterprise

    Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.

  • Google deal highlights Web 2.0 boom

    Google's acquisition of a tiny Web word processing maker turns the spotlight on a growing number of so-called Web 2.0 companies struggling to survive -- or angling to be Google's next purchase.

  • Microsoft reorg a bulwark against Google?

    Search giant's expanding roster of Windows-free Web services may be a factor in the shuffle. Software on demand is an issue too.

  • A better way to count clicks?

    Web publishers may soon have to change the way they count visitor traffic, whether they like it or not.

  • Do you Google?

    As the company reaches beyond its Internet search roots, critics ask whether success may breed an identity crisis.

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  • Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3

    Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser while adding some much-needed security features.

  • Deepnet Explorer

    This browser is built on the Internet Explorer engine yet includes built-in features Microsoft does not provide.

  • FrontPage gets XML, loses 'messy' HTML

    Microsoft is aiming higher with the new version of FrontPage, which will be launched later this year and sold as a standalone product.

  • Apple: The last bastion?

    Commentary:Steve Jobs can unveil as many nice new fast Macs as he likes, but it's in other areas that the Mac could be sunk, and if it does sink, it could be bad for all computer users.

  • Opera Public Beta 7: Spirited fighter

    The for-pay Opera comes out with a new public beta of version 7. Will it rekindle the browser war? We take a sneak peek at the preview version.

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