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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the software giant is still open to a partnership with Yahoo. However, Ballmer does not offer any specifics about new talks between Microsoft and Yahoo.

Microsoft will launch its Windows Marketplace for Mobile this fall with 600 applications, according to published reports.

Survey results from Constant Contact suggest small business owners are optimistic about growth in 2009 and increasingly likely to use online social media tools such as Facebook or Twitter to build their business.

Global Language Monitor, a language-monitoring group, claims that the millionth word to enter the English lexicon is "Web 2.0," an occurrence seemingly tailor-made to bring joy to technophiles and tears of rage to linguistic purists. Other linguists have taken issue with Global Language Monitor’s methods, decrying them as nonsense.

Aster Data Systems extends its functionality to allow Microsoft .NET application developers to write applications in MapReduce. With the update to the Aster nCluster product line, database developers can now write MapReduce functions in Microsoft C#.

Black Duck and Microsoft collaborate to automate the addition of open-source projects from Microsoft's CodePlex repository into Black Duck's KnowledgeBase and Koders.com.

Former Microsoft Executive Charles Simonyi completed his second jaunt as a space tourist aboard the International Space Station, landing in Kazakhstan along with two other crew members. Simonyi is the first "space tourist" to have visited the station twice, the second time at a cost of some $35 million. Simonyi is perhaps most famous for spearheading the development of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other productivity applications.

At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley 2009, Microsoft will announce the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Embedded subscription and Windows Embedded Developer Update service. The company also will announce expanded software-plus-services offerings for the Windows Embedded platform.

Discover what other Web sites are using in the way of technology to improve the look and feel of your Web site.

The Web Platform Installer makes it easy to quickly and effortlessly install applications on your IIS server. Microsoft recently released version 2.0. We take a look at it here.

Microsoft announced on March 5 that it would broaden availability of its Release Candidate of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to anyone interested in testing the solution prior to its final release. Previously, Microsoft had made the SP2 update available only to TechNet and MSDN subscribers.

Microsoft introduces a suite of dynamic data center tools at the Microsoft Hosting Summit on March 4 and outlines its initiatives for the hosting industry. Microsoft also highlights Windows Server 2008 with its Hyper-V hypervisor and Microsoft System Center, two platforms designed to help hosting providers leverage virtualization to lower costs.

Need a SQL-based database manager in almost any place imaginable? SQL Anywhere may provide the answer you need.

Microsoft on Feb. 2 released the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Ecosystem Readiness Program as part of its effort to prepare its partners for the availability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The new program provides tools and resources partners need to begin testing their existing applications, devices and systems to ensure compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Nested grids in ASP.NET are challenging for many developers to manage. Paul Kimmel shows you how to use the ASPxGridView to make life easier.

With the release of Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1, we are finally in the home stretch of the long trip to the latest version of the Microsoft Web browser.

Microsoft Exchange high availability has become increasingly important to businesses of all sizes. Knowledge Center contributor Jerry Melnick offers five tips on how to ensure Microsoft Exchange in both physical and virtual environments.

United Airlines follows Delta and American Airlines in announcing in-flight Wi-Fi, through AirCell's Gogo Inflight Internet service, on select transcontinental flights.

Microsoft announces that the Presidential Inaugural Committee has selected Microsoft's Silverlight technology to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC Web site.

According to the latest Evans Data Global Development Survey, more than half of all developers expect to work on programs delivered in the software-as-a-service model during the next 12 months. Cloud computing appears to have less traction than SAAS, with fewer than 10 percent of developers using cloud services, but over a quarter have plans to use cloud services at some point. Also, in North America, 37 percent of the developers surveyed said their work currently involves some type of virtualization.