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Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it could find no evidence that recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some have dubbed the black screen of death.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it had found no evidence that its recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some users said left them with a black screen of death. See full story.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it had found no evidence that its recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some users said left them with a black screen of death.

Reports that News Corp and Microsoft were in talks for an exclusive deal that would exclude Google are overblown, a source close to the situation said on Tuesday.

Taiwan's Acer Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, said Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 operating system launch last month has been positive for year-end PC sales, though the gains were within expectations.

Microsoft Corp's Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company.

Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday its Chief Financial Officer, Chris Liddell, will leave the company at the end of this year to pursue a new job. Liddell, 51, joined Microsoft as CFO in 2005. He has been widely recognized as a force behind cutting $3 billion in costs in the past year after the economic downturn left a dent in Microsoft's profits.

Rupert Murdoch has spent months complaining that Google is ruining the newspaper business, and now he wants to do something about it. But, his proposal is a gamble, and one that could hurt News Corp instead of helping it.

Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Search engines have always been at war, but now they have entered a new dimension. First, News Corp's Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said he wants to make people pay for access to his news websites like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post and will take off its content from sites like Google.

GameStop Corp's quarterly profit beat expectations helped by price cuts that stoked video game console demand and as used-game sales boosted margins -- signs a months-long period of gloom may be easing.

Microsoft rolled out the beta versions of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 that are available to download. Users can download the 2010 versions of Visio, Project, and Office Web Apps at www.microsoft.com/2010. Windows mobile clients are also available in beta via the Windows Marketplace.

Microsoft Corp has been ordered by a Chinese court to stop selling versions of its Windows operating systems that include fonts designed by a local company, citing a violation of licensing agreements.

Dell Inc will on Thursday report quarterly results for the first time as the No. 3 maker of personal computers -- unfamiliar territory for a company that not so long ago was the world's largest PC maker.

Microsoft Corp has been ordered by a Chinese court to stop selling versions of its Windows operating systems that include fonts designed by a local company, citing a violation of licensing agreements.

A Chinese court has ruled that Microsoft infringed a Chinese software maker's intellectual property rights in a surprise decision that has renewed concerns about China's management of IPR disputes, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will launch its long-awaited Windows Azure cloud computing system on Jan 1, as it looks to take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and services.

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after discount retailer Target gave a cautious holiday season outlook, but positive brokerage comments on tech bellwether Microsoft helped limit losses.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will launch its long-awaited Windows Azure cloud computing system on Jan 1, as it looks to take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and services.

Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has begun treatment, a spokesman for his investment company said on Monday.

Microsoft announced Monday that its Windows Marketplace app store is now available on Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.1 devices.