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		<title><![CDATA[Start-up claims Microsoft China took its code]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A start-up says that a microblogging service recently launched by Microsoft in China "rips off" its user interface and also contains a huge percentage of similar code.Plurk, which runs a microblogging service of its own, says more than 80 percent of the code for Microsoft's Juku service appears to be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:20:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft patches Office 2003 rights-management bug]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 11, some Office 2003 users discovered that they couldn't open files that included Microsoft right-management protected content. A day later, Microsoft issued a patch. There is a hotfix for Word 2003 and one for Excel 2003 that are downloadable from Microsoft's Web site designed to fix the issue....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:07:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Office 2003 Bug Locks Files]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA["The issue of the inability to open Office 2003 documents protected with RMS has now been resolved with a hotfix," Microsoft's Office Sustained Engineering team said, in a blog post Saturday.    The bug hit all components of the Office 2003 suite, including Word documents, Outlook e-mails, Excel...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:25:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Now Is It Facebook’s Microsoft Moment? [Voices]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came close to killing my Facebook account this week. As I delved even deeper to the supposed privacy I have or don't have on the service, I wondered why on earth I even have an account at all. And I kept thinking of Anil Dash's post earlier this year,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:51:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft buys IT automation firm for USD60m]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft has acquired IT automation firm Opalis Software in a deal that is reportedly worth USD60m, although this sum has not yet been officially confirmed. Microsoft will integrate Opalis with its data management system, System Centre.          Microsoft's corporate VP Brad...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:13:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Realigning Microsoft Azure unit may boost innovation, squabbling]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unifying Windows Azure with its on-premises counterpart Windows Server should hasten the rollout of new features in Microsoft Corp.'s enterprise cloud platform, but it also will pit Azure against Microsoft's other cloud services for the loyalty of a key customer base, says one independent Microsoft analyst. Microsoft announced on Tuesday...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:39:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon: First to Reach a Trillion Dollar Market Cap?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Krieger submits: I kind of chuckled when  I heard Jim Cramer promoting Amazon AMZN by claiming that since  its share price rallied tenfold (from $10 to $100) in a one year timeframe - from 1998 to 1999 - it could possibly see that  same type of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:53:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft (Officially) Pals Up with Opalis]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits:  By Brenon Daly Two months after we  first indicated that Microsoft MSFT was interested in Opalis Software, the software giant has indeed acquired the runbook automation RBA vendor. No terms were disclosed, but when we talked with sources in mid-October, the price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:21:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[World War 3.0: Apple vs Google vs Microsoft]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Back in the good old days, Microsoft did desktops, Google stuck to search and Apple made toys for people in polo necks. No more.   The superpowers of the technology world are at war, and like real wars, the battle is happening on several fronts. They're fighting on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:15:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Losing Consumer Battle? [Voices]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft MSFT has lost the war for consumers' hearts, most particularly in the smartphone category, argues influential newsletter publisher Mark Anderson, who pens the Strategic News Service, as New York Times columnist Steve Lohr writes in the Bits blog late last night. Anderson says aside from the Xbox gaming franchise,...]]></description>
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