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E3 2010 is less than a week away, and we can expect to once again see tons of new announcements and surprises.

Hands-down, the best deal on the Web today is Microsoft's SkyDrive combined with the free online version of its Office apps.

Stocks staged a comeback late Tuesday, with the Dow and S&P; 500 rallying near the end of a choppy session, following a surge in commodity and financial shares.

Even one of the richest companies in the world, Microsoft Corp., can use some of the financial flexibility that comes from borrowing money at today's relatively low rates.

The software, which is a set of development tools aimed at creating more visually appealing applications, has been released to the members of the Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) and will be available for purchase at a later stage.

The Microsoft Patch Tuesday train rolled into town today, dropping off a massive 10 security bulletins with fixes for at least 34 documented vulnerabilities.

by solitare_pax June 8, 2010 10:19 AM PDT There's probably a catch in there someplace.

Cree: Wunderlich Securities initiated coverage on shares of Cree ( CREE ), a maker of energy-efficient lighting products, with a buy rating and 85 target price on June 8.

When Office 2011 for the Mac ships this holiday season, it will be available as a 32-bit product only, Microsoft officials said in a blog post on June 8.

Beginning today, Windows Live users can access several Microsoft Office Live Web Apps for free.

After highlighting the sleek, user-friendly design of Windows Phone 7 at its unveiling in February, Microsoft is touting Windows Phone 7's business features this week at its TechEd conference in New Orleans.

Well, for starters, Bing will be included as a search option on the new Apple iPhone 4 , which was unveiled earlier this week in San Francisco .

Giving credit to the growth of Windows 7, the growth of its Bing search engine and other high-tech innovations, Microsoft reported operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.17 billion, $4.01 billion and 45 cents per share, which represented increases of 17 percent, 35 percent and 36 percent respectively, when compared with the prior year period.

At its TechEd conference this week, Microsoft is pushing its newly upgraded Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) technology as the foundation for identity in cloud computing environments, but some analysts point out there are still more pieces to come in the complex federated identity puzzle.

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has lauded Microsoft for its new policy requiring Web sites selling prescription drugs to be accredited through NABP's Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites (VIPPS) program.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday affirmed Microsoft's AAA corporate credit rating and assigned the same triple-A rating to its $1.5 billion convertible senior notes due 2013.

The Register reports Microsoft is not officially supporting Google's Chrome browser.

CSG Systems International Inc., which provides software and services that manage customer service for cable and satellite TV companies, said Monday it has agreed to spend about $125 million to buy back about $120 million in outstanding senior debt in an effort to reduce interest payments.

The most popular Channel Marker blog posts for May had their eye on the biggest of the big (Microsoft) and the itty-bitty vendors that caught VARs' eyes (Webiplex and eSet).

(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/08/10 -- Simba Technologies Inc., industry's source for standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity solutions, announced today the release of SimbaProvider OLAP SDK 4.3 - the industry leading Software Development Kit (SDK) for implementing OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) and XML for Analysis (XMLA) data connectivity that connects business intelligence and analytics products like Microsoft Excel and SAP BusinessObjects Voyager to data sources.