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Microsoft plans to argue before Japan’s Fair Trade Commission that a tie-up between Yahoo! Japan and Google is anti-competitive, local media said Friday. The watchdog has said the deal will not counter the anti-monopoly law, but Microsoft has condemned it, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world. Earlier this week Yahoo! Japan [...]

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that developing Windows-based tablet computers and getting them to market is “job one urgency” for the US software giant. “We have got to make things happen with Windows 7 on slates,” Ballmer told financial analysts at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, during a meeting that was streamed live on the Web. “It [...]

There are a lot of reasons you might be interested in lightening up and streamlining a Windows installation. And there are several applications that allow you to do just that. 1. nLite: This freeware Windows application goes directly into the Windows installation disc and selectively rips out all the features and software you don’t want. 2. GameXP: Designed to optimize your system settings and speed [...]