http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/ en-us http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/wmwbutton.gif http://www.searchengineworld.com 109 33 /microsoft/3459261.htm Microsoft has made its hosted business applications available to users in 18 countries outside the United States with the Monday release of a trial version expected to go on sale in April, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant announced at the CeBIT trade show in Germany. /microsoft/3459225.htm Microsoft has begun a public test of Recite, a new mobile phone application that records and searches for voice recordings, the Redmond, Washington-based technology giant announced Monday in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress trade show. /microsoft/3459150.htm Microsoft, the maker of the popular Web browser Internet Explorer, has released a free tool for users of Mozilla Corp.'s open source rival browser Firefox that provides search engine suggestions for Live Search, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker's search service. /microsoft/3459117.htm While Yahoo prepared for the Tuesday release of quarterly earnings that are expected to show continued poor financial performance, the Web pioneer faced uncertainty caused by persistent public statements from Microsoft surrounding a search advertising deal. /microsoft/3459084.htm Microsoft does not expect to loose a significant share of its lead in the lucrative business software market to competing Web-based applications offered by Google, despite the Internet search leader's plan announced Wednesday to sell its Google Apps service through resellers for the first time. /microsoft/3458919.htm Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has begun testing the next generation of its Web crawler application that will better discover and index online information for inclusion in the software maker's search engine Live Search, the company announced Thursday. /microsoft/3458913.htm By hiring former Yahoo search and advertising vice president Qi Lu last week, Microsoft added a man who plans to use his 10 years of experience at Yahoo to invigorate Microsoft's search engine Live Search as it attempts to battle search leader Google. /microsoft/3458862.htm Microsoft has updated its Windows Live platform with a series of new features that it hopes will move it closer to being a Facebook-like social networking Web destination, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker announced Tuesday. /microsoft/3458749.htm Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has added satellite images from its Virtual Earth online mapping service to the software giant's search engine Live Search, as a new feature of its image searching system, the company announced late Friday. /microsoft/3458719.htm Redmond, Washington-based software maker Microsoft has begun a public test of a new online tool for customizing search results and sharing them with social networks Web sites, with the announcement of "U Rank."