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Yesterday, Microsoft’s Development & Platform Evangelism (DPE) group, in partnership with Lane Systems Inc. (LSI), held a long-overdue educational event in Davao City for the benefit of local software developers. According to Rodney Jao, president of LSI, the last time that Microsoft held an official event in the city was almost two years ago. The [...]

Microsoft Corp. has released a very attractive financing plan for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines. For a minimum purchase of P250,000 (VAT inclusive), any Filipino company is eligible to apply for this financing program from Microsoft Philippines. It wasn’t mentioned in the official announcement, but this generous offer could most certainly be [...]

When TechCrunch, ZDNet and other notable online publications and blogs trash a company or an individual, techies and people who spend a lot of time on the Internet will invariably take notice. But when it’s the venerable The New York Times that does the lambasting, virtually nobody will miss it. In a recent article in [...]

Why does Microsoft want to acquire Yahoo? Is it because the software giant perceives an impending loss of share in the OS and office-productivity software markets? Research analysts from Gartner Research think so, but I have my doubts.

Inquirer.net reported yesterday that a college in Pasay City, the Southeastern College (SEC), is bringing a lawsuit against software giant, Microsoft Corp., and its in-country subsidiary, Microsoft Philippines. The case is that MS Phils. has allegedly infringed on copyright laws, in that the college’s intellectual property rights were allegedly encroached upon. The news article elaborated [...]

iThink Technologies, an IT training facility in Davao, launched its Microsoft training and certification program today at The Venue. Together with iThink was Microsoft Philippines and edupro inc., a Manila-based training institute and Microsoft-Certified Partner for Learning Solutions.