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A decision on whether to suspend the European Commission's anticompetition sanctions against Microsoft Corp. pending appeal is expected to come in the first half of next week, according to a source close to the company.

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Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it will sacrifice some key advances it had planned for Longhorn so it can deliver the successor to Windows XP in 2006.

A simplified and lower-priced version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system (OS) will begin shipping to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand on new desktop PCs in October as part of a pilot program to tap into first-time PC users in developing markets, the software maker said Wednesday.

A simplified and lower-priced version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system (OS) will begin shipping to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand on new desktop PCs in October as part of a pilot program to tap into first-time PC users in developing markets, the software maker said Wednesday.

Microsoft Corp. recently said it plans to hire as many as 7,000 people in its current fiscal year and increase spending on research and development.

Microsoft Corp. will give governments and international organizations access to the programming code underlying several versions of its Windows operating system to allay security concerns, the company announced Tuesday

U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Nov. 1 approved most of the provisions of a settlement deal between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and nine states that sued the software maker in a landmark antitrust lawsuit.