Thursday, September 20, 2007

Reaction to Microsoft ruling; Microsoft, Accenture sign $185M outsourcing deal

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Microsoft News Alert




Network World's Microsoft News Alert, 09/20/07

EC's Kroes slams DOJ reaction to Microsoft ruling, 09/19/07: European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has slammed comments from the U.S. Department of Justice about Monday's European court ruling on an antitrust judgment against Microsoft.

Cisco fleshes out Microsoft cooperation on unified communications, 09/19/07: Cisco's highly publicized cooperation with Microsoft on unified communications will focus on sharing presence information as well as on voice mail, Web conferencing and other areas, a Cisco executive said Tuesday.

Cisco finds its not so easy working with Microsoft: Despite the recent Ballmer-Chambers love-in, Cisco is finding that in reality working with the secretive Microsoft is not so easy.

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With Microsoft ruling, a precedent for IT in Europe, 09/18/07: Microsoft suffered a humiliating legal defeat Monday when it lost a court appeal to overturn the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it.

Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust ruling, 09/17/07: Microsoft failed Monday in its bid to overturn a European Commission antitrust ruling against it, when the European Union's second-highest court dismissed the company's appeal and ordered it to pay the bulk of the Commission's legal expenses.

Microsoft, Accenture sign $185M outsourcing deal, 09/13/07: Microsoft on Thursday deepened its existing partnership with Accenture by signing a seven-year, $185 million outsourcing contract for a range of finance, accounting and procurement services that could become a showcase for Microsoft’s ERP applications.

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Senior Editor John Fontana covers Microsoft for Network World.

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