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• Shuttle, astronauts prep for mid-mission boost
These are very complicated pieces of equipment with very complicated software to control them." The astronauts were going to delay the urine test until flight controllers figure out what's wrong, but they planned to test another part of the system ...
• Norway encourages use of open source software
OSLO, Norway - Norway pledged funds Monday to stimulate public sector use of the free open source software OpenOffice to reduce its dependency on Microsoft Corp. and other major software producers. (Msnbc is a joint Microsoft - NBC Universal venture ...
• Microsoft to offer free security software
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said Wednesday it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, spyware and other threats. (Msnbc.com is a joint-venture of Microsoft ...
• Ballmer says not interested in buying Yahoo
Michael McDonald, a shareholder who flew from Atlanta to attend the meeting, blames Microsoft's run at Yahoo for depressing its share price and hopes the software maker doesn't try again. McDonald, a retired advertising executive, called the race to ...
• Zune dancing to a different drum machine
But while Apple Inc. has counted on the sex appeal of its ever-thinner devices to keep consumers turned on, the Zune team has been beefing up its software and courting artists like Common, a dashing MC with mainstream appeal who might just help make ...