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Day: March 21, 2006

Hutchison 3G to gain Microsoft MSN access

Port to telecom conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa said on Monday its third-generation telecoms service clients would be able to access Microsoft’s instant messenger, MSN, and Hotmail through their handsets.

The agreement between Hutchison’s 3 Group and Microsoft Corp. would initially cover over 5 million customers of Hutchison’s 3G networks in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Australia and Hong Kong.

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Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future

Everything we do now, we have to be user-centric,’ says Microsoft’s chairman

Microsoft has long viewed the software world through Windows. Now, it’s hoping to prove that it understands the growing popularity of Web technologies beyond its own operating system.

The Microsoft chairman said, in essence, that the development world has changed with the advent of new Web technologies that give people any-time, any-place access to their data — a far cry from the PC-centric world of the past. “Everything we do now, we have to be user-centric, not device-centric,” he said.

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