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Microsoft's next update to Windows Live Messenger will bring people more ways to keep an eye on their social network accounts.

The next version of Microsoft Windows, the software that defines the computing experience for most people, will nag users much less than its much-maligned predecessor, Vista.

Microsoft Corp. and Harrah's Entertainment have introduced a high-tech interactive bar table that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and even flirt with each other.

Warrington school is to stop using school management software supplied by the Ministry of Education.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will be a key pitchman in a planned $300 million advertising campaign for software giant Microsoft, a person familiar with the plans confirmed to The Associated Press on condition on anonymity because the deal has not been formally announced.

Back in those dark days when photographs were confined to a strip of processed chemicals called "film", there wasn't much spare-time photographers could do with pictures.

US TV viewers can return to their favuorite programmes without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

Microsoft New Zealand managing director Kevin Ackhurst is confident technology can help the New Zealand business sector weather the global financial crisis.

Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.