Microsoft, others realize consumer now rules tech market
Takeshi Numoto's Executive Biography
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Friday, July 30, 2010 - Page updated at 02:00 a.m.
Rewind: Live chat with Microsoft's Takeshi Numoto
Office 2010 launched for consumers on Tuesday and we live chatted with Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Office Product Management Group. Read the chat.
Microsoft aims to be BFF with consumers
Pitching to 200 financial analysts Thursday, Microsoft grabbed the mike and said the company gets consumers and is ready to compete mightily against Apple's red-hot iPad.
Interactive Database
See a data visualization of Microsoft earnings history and a price-to-earnings comparison with peer companies.
AP business & technology wire
Wednesday, July 28
Microsoft meeting with analysts Thursday
Tuesday, July 27
Yahoo Japan to use Google search tech, not Yahoo's
Friday, July 23
Microsoft, ARM join together in chip-technology agreement
Thursday, July 22
Microsoft profit surges 48%, beating expectations
Wednesday, July 21
Can Microsoft quarterly results still beat forecasts?
Tuesday, July 13
Microsoft partners worry over cloud-computing role
Monday, July 12
Microsoft Azure appliance may lure companies to cloud
Windows-based slates on way, Ballmer says
Thursday, July 8
Tesla hires former Microsoft-Apple-Gap real estate expert
Wednesday, July 7
Tuesday, July 6
Lawsuit seeks arbitration in Microsoft case
Wednesday, June 30
Microsoft's Imagine Cup aims to inspire creativity

Bill Gates: His Legacy, His Future
Bill Gates, who ended his full-time involvement with Microsoft in June 2008, was often right. He made a career, a company and an industry by looking over the horizon.
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