Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will cut 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months in the software giant’s first-ever significant round of layoffs as the company reported a worse-than-expected 11% drop in fiscal second-quarter earnings and pulled its view for the year.News about the earnings - which came hours earlier than expected - and the job cuts sent shares of the Redmond, Wash., company near 11-year lows and rattled the technology stock sector.
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The Conficker virus, which had infected an estimated nine millions computers by Thursday is spreading at a rate of one million machines per day according to US software protection firm F-Secure.USB memory sticks infected with the virus trick users into installing the worm, according to researchers.
Microsoft Corp. has delayed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) by at least a month, and will now ship it to manufacturing sometime in May or June, according to a Web site that has accurately predicted Windows release dates in the past.
Microsoft Relevant Products/Services says it has tweaked its Windows Experience Index (WEI) for Windows 7 to take into account new PC hardware Relevant Products/Services configurations. Introduced with Windows Vista, Microsoft’s PC rating system is compiled by measuring the relative capabilities and configuration of each machine’s components.

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