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Microsoft Ramps Up Efforts To Entice European Start-Ups To Use Its Windows Platform

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on November 11, 2009

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More than 7,500 start-ups in Europe have signed up to become part of Microsoft's BizSpark program in the last 12 months. Now, Microsoft is ramping up its efforts, with the launch of an expanded program that allows start-ups to connect not just with venture capitalists and government funding but also with banks loans, free legal advice and a whole host of other services to help get their companies get off the ground. Click on read more to see the story and watch a video interview with the chairman of Microsoft Europe.Read more

Microsoft Transfers Software Licensing and Protection Services To Irish Start-Up

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on June 9, 2009

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Microsoft is spinning out its Software Licensing and Protection Services unit, forming an independent Dublin-based company called InishTech. Created through collaboration between Microsoft’s IP Ventures program and the Enterprise Ireland trade association, InishTech will be run by veterans of one-time Irish dotcom star Baltimore Technologies, a now defunct Internet security company.
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Jennifer L. Schenker has been covering technology outside the U.S for 23 years, most recently for BusinessWeek. She has also worked full-time for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune and Red Herring.

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