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Microsoft Launches Office Subscription Service

Microsoft is working with Circuit City to offer a consumer software subscription service that includes its Office, Windows Live OneCare, Messenger, and Photo Gallery applications and services.

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Dave Methvin

Microsoft Equipt: A Great Price For Office Plus Security
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced Equipt, one of its first consumer subscription offerings. Equipt combines Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition (HSE), and several other already-free services such as Office Live Workspace. The price? An affordable $70 a year.

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Dave Methvin

Powerset Grab Shows Microsoft's Commitment To Search
After Microsoft's on-again-off-again-maybe-not-done-yet bid for Yahoo or some part thereof, its acquisition of Powerset shows that it want to be a serious player in search. Better search results might drive users to Live Search, or at least keep them from leaving when the results aren't so hot. Yet there's still a lot more Microsoft needs to do.

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Richard Martin

Gates On Windows: What He Actually Said
Having been called "a lowlife piece of garbage," among other things, for my post yesterday about a Seattle radio jock's reading of a 2003 e-mail from Bill Gates, I figured some amplification is in order.

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Dave Methvin

Microsoft Needs To Want Change--It's Not There Yet
In October 2005, Ray Ozzie told Microsoft executives what needed to happen to make Microsoft a leader in Internet services. Ozzie had been at the company for about six months at the time. Now it's more than three years since Ozzie joined Microsoft. Is he making progress on this goal?

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