| May 21, 2007 | -
Microsoft announced that it would acquire online media and advertising firm aQuantive for $6 billion.
| Source:
MediaWeek
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| August 23, 2006 | -
Microsoft filed suit against two “typosquatter” companies under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which prevents companies from exploiting suggestively similar domain names.
| Source:
The Register
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| July 6, 2006 | - It was reported that Melinda Gates is more comfortable than her husband Bill when it comes to holding AIDS babies in Africa or talking to male prostitutes in India.
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New York Times
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| May 31, 2005 | -
Microsoft opened a new Chinese Internet portal that forbids some users from publishing personal home pages with the words "demonstration," "democratic movement," and "freedom."
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MSNBC
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| March 3, 2005 | -
Microsoft was developing a teddy bear with a rotating head that will watch little children,
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AP
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| March 2, 2005 | -
Bill Gates was knighted.
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ABC News
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| January 6, 2005 | - and Bill Gates announced the arrival of the digital lifestyle.
| Source:
Smart Money
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| June 4, 2004 | -
Microsoft
patented the "double-click."
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 3, 2004 | -
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems made peace.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 24, 2004 | - The European Union fined Microsoft $613 million for abusing its "near monopoly" on personal computers.
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Washington Post
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| September 24, 2003 | - The Computer and Communications Industry Association released a report warning that the government's growing reliance on Microsoft operating systems and software was exposing federal computer networks to "massive, cascading failures." The author of the report was fired the next day by his employer, a consulting firm that does business with Microsoft.
| Source:
CCIA, Associated Press
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| July 16, 2003 | -
Microsoft acknowledged a critical security flaw that permits hackers to take over computers running the latest version of its Windows operating system.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 15, 2003 | - The Department of Homeland Security announced that Microsoft was chosen as its exclusive supplier of desktop and server software.
| Source:
GovExec.com
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| December 31, 2002 | -
A federal judge ruled that Microsoft must include Sun Microsystem's Java programming language in its operating systems, and compared Microsoft's behavior to the kneecapping of Nancy Kerrigan shortly before the 1994 Olympics.
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| November 5, 2002 | -
A federal judge approved what some commentators have mocked as the “Seattlement” of the Microsoft antitrust case; the judge rejected arguments by nine states attorneys general that real punishments and reforms be imposed on the company, which was found guilty of being an illegal monopoly.
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| November 6, 2001 | -
President Bush noted that this “is not good news for America.” The federal government settled its antitrust suit against Microsoft, the computer monopolist; state prosecutors weren't so sure about the deal and said they wanted to think it over.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Tom Brokaw's assistant at NBC Nightly News tested positive for cutaneous anthrax; another case turned up at a Microsoft office in Reno, Nevada.
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| September 11, 2001 | - The Bush Administration decided not to pursue the breakup of Microsoft.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Microsoft asked the Supreme Court to review its antitrust case.
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| January 9, 2001 | - Korean businessmen were said to be emulating Microsoft chairman Bill Gates's nerdy personal appearance.
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| January 2, 2001 | - A hacker named “prime suspectz” cracked the Nasdaq's web server and left an offensive message; he also mentioned how easy it was to penetrate a Microsoft server.
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Russian hackers penetrated Microsoft's computer network using a well-known Trojan attack and for six weeks had access to the company's internal computer records, including the source code of some programs; the security breach was discovered only when system administrators noticed passwords being emailed to an address in St.
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| October 3, 2000 | - The Supreme Court refused to hear the Microsoft antitrust appeal and sent the case back to a lower court.
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| September 19, 2000 | -
Bill Gates announced that globalism is good.
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