Microsoft feels the heat from small competitors
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Microsoft might be king of the software world, but it's having to play catch up in the increasingly important world of Internet and desktop search, chasing the substantial leads of Google, Yahoo and others.
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After years of expensive litigation aimed at weakening its hold on the software market, Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) is on the verge of settling with nearly all of its opponents.
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Microsoft's attempt to win over new users with a cut-down version of Windows has come in for strong criticism.
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The discounter faces some pretty big "small" rivalry.
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We recently wrote an article about Mozilla&#39;s FireFox fast grow. Although we weren&#39;t wrong back then, Microsoft is still keeping their heads up and doing their best to keep themselves in the lead.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools.
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A small Norwegian software company  says with a level playing field it can take on mighty Microsoft  Corp.  in a new battle of the browsers because it has a  better product, picking up where the now-defunct Netscape left  off in the 1990s.
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Surprise, surprise. Microsoft apparently uses its operating system software monopoly to dominate new markets. That, at least, is what European courts have just determined.
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Microsoft Corp. isn&#39;t often an underdog in anything, so when the software powerhouse released its new search engine, I was anxious to give it a whirl.
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A small Norwegian software company says with a level playing field it can take on mighty Microsoft Corp.  in a new battle of the browsers because it has a better product, picking up where the now-defunct Netscape left off in the 1990s.
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Can this small drug company compete with the industry's giants?
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Frankfurt, October 18: Microsoft launched a new software product aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises on Monday to strengthen its position in a fragmented market it sees as ripe for growth.
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While security experts applaud Microsoft&#39;s recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product&#39;s introduction with dread and suspicion.
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TechWeb - Lagging Salesforce and others in the hosted CRM market, Microsoft will try to win customers with lower pricing.
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A tiny provider of open-source e-mail exchange software takes on Microsoft and other large providers of proprietary e-mail service technology.
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Microsoft's browser dominates the Web, but it is facing new competition from Firefox, an open-source project by a new generation of software developers.