Word: microsoft
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...manage all the music, video and digital photos pouring out of new gadgets on the market, the company last week copied its competitors and introduced a Microsoft program, dubbed the Dell Media Experience, that will come preloaded on all new Dell Dimension computers. "In time we hope it will become a central repository for the family," says senior vice president John Medica. For now, at least, the product has one big advantage: it's free...
...million Value of grants given by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to New York City public schools...
...rubber stockings, condoms and sex-aid brochures found scattered about the room's floor, the cops found a 14-year-old girl who'd been enticed there for illegal sex by a man eight years her senior. The pair had corresponded frequently in the poorly policed realm of the Microsoft Network's Internet chat rooms. As David Hipperson pleaded guilty to gross indecency in court last week, software giant Microsoft was simultaneously announcing that it would close MSN chat rooms in most parts of the world, beginning Oct. 14. "We're pleased the prosecution has been successful," says Geoff Sutton...
...effective method of weeding out sexual predators is to require chat room habitués to register - and pay. Users must cough up a subscription fee, along with a credit-card number and personal information that can then be used to trace the perpetrator of any future abuse. Indeed, Microsoft itself will in some nations - including the U.S., Japan and Canada - require such subscriptions of between $2 and $10 per month to gain access to MSN chat rooms. So why not extend the same secure service elsewhere? "There is a fundamental difference in scale between America and the U.K., France...
Companies scouring Harvard for potential employees range from investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs and the Blackstone Group, to technology firms, such as Microsoft and Google...