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- Microsoft Research and their secret projects
- Microsoft Research and their secret projectsAgreed, congrats on U.S.A. for doing the right thing ...... and now it's time for that new friendlier form of Capitalism that Gates spoke of.We may be entering an era where technology can benefit now - in other words, the filthy greed that once was...
- Tags: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIMProof that investors should all be drownedThey do nothing but hold mankind back in their own self serving way.Competition is a basic factor for any free market, yet investors want it both ways.They should offer $11 a shareby Monday, it'll look like a...
- Tags: M$FT, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Ballmer says MSFT not immune to financial crisis
- Ballmer says MSFT not immune to financial crisisGlad to see you use Yahoo Finance to show the chartAfter all the criticism that Yahoo has received for not being with it, they are still the site that most people turn to for many services. Finance is one of the best.As...
- Tags: Financial accounting, MSFT, financial crisis, Steve Ballmer, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Ballmer says MSFT not immune to financial crisis
- Steve Ballmer was asked about the financial crisis and its effect on the IT industry last week and he didn't seem too concerned. But today, speaking at a press conference in Norway he appears to have changed his view. Reuters reported: Financial...
- Tags: Financial, Steve Ballmer, MSFT, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances' that re-architect...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Business Intelligence, Storage, Notebooks, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'?
- What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'?AmenI agree. No matter what they do, people will still piss and moan.a lot of windows users are p*ssed.Windows users were told it would run fine on older machines. The RC was going to be faster than the beta, the gold would be...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing research, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Mojave Experiment, Microsoft Windows Vista, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...
- Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer
- We don't want you to talk, Mr. BallmerThe ghost of Mr. Ballmerwill be forced to bear the clippy's that he has forged in this life.Oh, the eternal wailing.Well, hey, it IS fun to watch them squirm. But, it probably DOES help themshort term at least to create FUD around open...
- Tags: open source, MSFT, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-12
- MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search
- MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about searchAdding a crappy search engine ....to another crappy search engine is not going to make MS Live better.The main reason why MS search engine is so unpopular is because it sucks. Adding another sucky unpopular search algorithm is not going to improve the...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, SEARCH, Powerset, MSFT, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2008-07-05
- MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search
- The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. So far, Powerset has only demonstrated its technology against Wikipedia. It's a neat exhibit but it is...
- Tags: Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Search, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- China to sue MSFT over high prices
- China to sue MSFT over high pricesAnd gas cost more overseas in the EUthen in the US, and less in Mexico the in the US.Who determines what is "fair" and what is "accurate"?I guess Europeans should sue British Petroleum as people in the US and other countries pay less then...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Sounds like China, Microsoft Corp., high price, anti-monopoly, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- China to sue MSFT over high prices
- How do you know when a country is ready to enter the legions of developed nations? When it's ready to sue Microsoft. AFP reports that China is conducting an anti-monopoly investigation into giant Microsoft. China's State Intellectual Property Office is leading the investigation and private firms will likely...
- Tags: China, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Tools & Techniques, Government, Piracy, Microsoft Windows, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Hey genius, they want you.
- Hey genius, they want you.Was that supposed to be a blog? wowYou definitely deserve a hug after that blogGreat post Zack, you are starting to come into your own.You have me laughing. Them there "Americans" are pretty strange.RE: Hey genius, they want you.wow...First time I've rolled across your blog...
- Tags: Blogging, genius, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- More things about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal that make you go hmmmm
- More things about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal that make you go hmmmmYang regretful?First there is an error Mary, MSFT made an offer in Jan. 2007 for $40 a share not $40b. Yang sounds regretful. You are right, but everybody know what it means. Important thing is why MSFT has lost interest....
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Yang, Microsoft Corp., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynote
- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynotehmmm.....So many things to do = so many things that will fail.Gate$ will be better off at his 'foundation' when deadlines will slip and the losses will mount.I pitty the sacrificial lambs tasked with continuing his grand ambitions.Maquito net...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Leadership, tool, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., WinMobile, Even Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- See the demo of Windows 7 multi-touch
- See the demo of Windows 7 multi-touchOld news Mary Jo....My rep has given me alpha access to a Touch Wall in my palatial office. The walls were installed and loaded with the latest code. Pretty quickly I was using the walls like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, moving around servers...
- Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Keyboards, wall, Windows 7 multi-touch, Microsoft Windows, multi-touch, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF
- NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"?O'Kelly's comments are not exactly reassuring to me - they are actually a bit scary. They recall Microsoft's old strategy of "embrace, extend, extinguish" used against Netscape and such: they deliver mediocre support, "extend" it with dubious features not...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, MSFT, O'Kelly
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF
- New York's CIO, Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart left, submitted a report to the governor and legislature, embracing open document formats but steering clear of picking favorites. Open document formats are a necessity since NY law requires the state to "conduct its business in an open, interoperable and transparent manner."...
- Tags: New York, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, MSFT, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Microsoft looks to buy search share (again)
- Microsoft looks to buy search share againDidn't work last time, won't work this timeWho cares if the great Bloatfarm offers you 25 cents off? Do people quit Amazon for 25 cents off at Barnes & Noble?Even so, if the slagheap does it, google is much more powerful in search...
- Tags: Engineering, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., slagheap, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
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