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Futures point down after weak housing data
Reuters   Friday, 16 February 2007

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launches Windows Vista and 2007 Office at a store in New York January 30, 2007. U.S. stock index futures pointed to a weaker market open on Friday after China's central bank made a surprise announcement that it will increase bank's reserve requirements, potentially sending U.S. materials and industrial shares lower. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday, signaling a weaker market open, after data showed housing starts fell more than expected in January.


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Stock futures slip; Microsoft in focus
AP   Friday, 16 February 2007

Richard J. Boyle, second from right, Chairman, President and CEO of LoopNet, Inc., and his wife Catherine attend the opening bell at the Nasdaq stock market Monday, Feb. 12, 2007 in New York. LoopNet, an online listing service for commercial real estate, is based in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - U.S. stock futures softened on Friday after an impressive run of gains, with Microsoft due for a pullback on the company's caution over operating system sales and consolidation likely to be the session's theme after Spain's BBVA agreed to buy a U.S. bank for nearly $10 billion and on a report that investors are lining up a bid for the owner of American Airlines.


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Microsoft CEO dampens Vista sales forecast
InfoWorld   Friday, 16 February 2007
InfoWorld - Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer believes that sales forecasts for its new Vista operating system may be "overly aggressive."
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Vista revenue forecasts too aggressive: Microsoft CEO
Reuters   Friday, 16 February 2007

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launches Windows Vista and 2007 Office at a store in New York January 30, 2007. Ballmer said on Thursday analysts' forecasts for revenue from Windows Vista in fiscal 2008 were 'overly aggressive' and its shares fell in extended trading. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)Reuters - Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday analysts' forecasts for revenue from Windows Vista in fiscal 2008 were "overly aggressive," sending shares down 1 percent.


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Microsoft patches include a surprise
InfoWorld   Friday, 16 February 2007
InfoWorld - There was a little surprise buried in Microsoft's monthly security bulletins Tuesday. It turns out that Microsoft had quietly slipped out one of the February fixes just days before its Jan. 30 Vista launch.
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No Surprises Expected at Microsoft Briefing
PC World   Friday, 16 February 2007
PC World - Microsoft Corp. plans to give analysts in New York a strategic update on the company's business Thursday, but they aren't expecting a repeat of the surprise dished up last April.
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Gates Foundation unloads home builder shares
Reuters   Thursday, 15 February 2007

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates attends a debate at a French economic forum in Paris, February 1, 2007. Gates has shed most of his investments in home builders, as revealed in a quarterly filing of the holdings of his charitable foundation. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)Reuters - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has shed most of his investments in home builders, as revealed in a quarterly filing of the holdings of his charitable foundation.


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'Non-event' expected for Microsoft strategic update
InfoWorld   Thursday, 15 February 2007
InfoWorld - Microsoft will give analysts in New York a strategic update on the company's business Thursday, but they aren't expecting a repeat of the surprise dished up last April.
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Microsoft Settles Iowa Class-Action Lawsuit
TechWeb   Thursday, 15 February 2007
TechWeb - The class-action suit claimed Microsoft overcharged consumers and businesses as much as $453 million over a 12-year period.
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Microsoft and Novell Detail Product Roadmap
NewsFactor   Thursday, 15 February 2007
NewsFactor - Three months after first announcing a joint development partnership, Microsoft and Novell have started to discuss specific projects and other details of their union.
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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 20 Security Bugs
NewsFactor   Thursday, 15 February 2007
NewsFactor - Microsoft has released its February round of security updates, complete with some long-awaited patches for its Office productivity suite of applications. This month's Patch Tuesday addresses multiple critical fixes for vulnerabilities in both Office and Microsoft's line of security products. Altogether, Microsoft patched 20 flaws with its current release.
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