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Microsoft demos robotic receptionist

REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft's receptionist of the future is a robot. Chief Research and Strategy officer Craig Mundie on Thursday demonstrated a software-based robot that uses a combination of visual and voice recognition ......

Microsoft's online strategy: Trust us

Microsoft went into more detail Thursday about its online spending plans, but offered few new details on just how it plans to catch Google. In his remarks to financial analysts, CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that, in the...

Microsoft's online strategy: Trust us

REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft went into more detail Thursday about its online spending plans, but offered few new details on just how it plans to catch Google. In his remarks to financial analysts, CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged...

CEOs Afraid of Facebook? Not the Ones I Know

Kevin Maney writes: Around the tech industry, Facebook is as much a business contacts site as it is a social site. That's due, in part, to the fact that in the tech industry business and social lives mix like crazy. The new...

Would Ray Ozzie Take On(line) for the Microsoft Team? (at AllThingsD)

Posted at 4:15 AM PT on July 25, 2008 One thing is absolutely true: It is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and only Ballmer who knows for sure whom he is most interested in to take over the dicey job of head of the software giant’s...

Embracing and Extending OSCON

at 5:28 am by Roy Schestowitz Changing Open Source before it’s ‘too late’? Microsoft sponsored OSCON. Very, very handsomely. Lots of money exchanged hands so that Microsoft can be nearer to its #1 competitor (according to Steve...

Would Ray Ozzie Take On(line) for the Microsoft Team?

One thing is absolutely true: It is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and only Ballmer who knows for sure whom he is most interested in to take over the dicey job of head of the software giant long-suffering online services business....

One of Gates' Favorite Themes Continues in His Absence

Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service This year, the biggest crowd at lunch during Microsoft's analyst meeting was at CEO Steve Ballmer's table, with people standing two rows deep around the lucky few who actually scored a seat....

Microsoft demos robotic receptionist

Posted by Ina Fried | Post a comment Microsoft plans to use this robot receptionist to handle the task of reserving interoffice shuttles for its employees. REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft's receptionist of the future is a robot....

Live: Microsoft meets Wall Street

REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft’s annual culture clash takes place Thursday as the software maker tries to dazzle and delight with technology and long-term plans while a crowd of financial analysts presses the company for profits they...