Back when Microsoft released Windows Vista, the dominant platform for Windows was the desktop PC.
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When Microsoft began offerings its antivirus software for free in June of last year, Symantec scoffed.
In the nineteen-eighties, Jobs reacted the same way when Microsoft came out with Windows.
When Microsoft was in its salad days, it was made up entirely of hackers, good ones.
Internet Explorer has ruled the browser market since late 1997 when Microsoft wrested the lead from Netscape.
More will come in the autumn, when Microsoft is likely to publish some new tools for developers.
The strategic options approach is very different from the past when Microsoft owned the downstream Wintel franchise.
When Microsoft introduced the original Xbox, the company had a lot to prove.
When Microsoft feels vulnerable to competition it fights its corner with greater vigour.
It didn't work when Microsoft did it with the WebTV in 1996 and it doesn't work on the Google TV.
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But when Microsoft steps through the door, there is always the little matter of who ends up owning the house.
When Microsoft first made the Xbox, it would probably have sounded ridiculous to reorient corporate strategy around a video game system.
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The market could receive a significant boost in October when Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) releases its highly anticipated OS upgrade, Windows 8.
When Microsoft first started marketing its Windows operating system the entire campaign was centered on making computers more accessible to users.
It also easy to forget the fear that shook the nascent online CRM marketplace when Microsoft announced it was entering the space.
The current fine is related to a time when Microsoft was in a different position in Europe, between February 2011 and July 2012.
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When Microsoft first learned of Scob, it advised users to disable a part of Internet Explorer because it couldn't stop the new virus.
"Microsoft had a bad reputation among Internet elitists mostly because of the browser wars" in 2000 when Microsoft put Netscape out of business, he says.
Back when Microsoft released its Office 365 subscription service for home users, it said the business version would be arriving on February 27th.
You can imagine the surprise we got 26 years later when Microsoft premiered an ad featuring the now-CEO during its Windows Phone 8 event.
This was in the summer of 2009, when Microsoft was putting the finishing touches on Windows 7 and just starting to shift its development efforts to Win 8.
However, the firm's founder and chief executive, Michael Dell, told analysts he expected a pick-up in demand when Microsoft released its new system software later in the year.
And when Microsoft polled some of its U.S. and European consumers, 75 percent of them said they wanted the company to turn on Do Not Track for them.
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That was when Microsoft forced its myriad Websites to adopt a system that analyzes content according to the degree to which it contains sex, nudity, violence or obscene language.
Back in February, when Microsoft first announced its intention to revamp its mobile operating system into Windows Phone 7, Asus was on the short list of launch partners.
It's a radical shift from the early days of the PC industry, when Microsoft scrambled to load new features onto its software that could take advantage of ever-improving hardware.
He said it was important to determine what the company's chief decision maker was thinking in January 1996, when Microsoft was changing its strategy with regard to the Internet.
When Microsoft was described by Lou Gerstner in Business Week as 'a great marketing company, but not a great technology company' Mr Gates was furious according to evidence presented.
At a time when Microsoft is really pushing the bounds of graphic minimalism in their software with Windows Phone and Windows 8, Apple, bizarrely, seems trapped in the past.
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