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MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connection

MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connectionMonkey Boy knows all about anti-trustSo he would be banging THAT drum.RE: MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connectionBallmer was right. As soon as Yahoo started talking with Google antitrust played a very big part of this deal. Yahoo is dealing...

Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Yahoo! Inc., antitrust, uninvention, antitrust connection, MSFT, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Monkey Boy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

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Why is Microsoft opening up its Outlook file format now?

On October 26, Microsoft officials announced they were planning to open up the Outlook Personal Folders .PST file format and making it freely and safely licensable. What no one has said so far is why is Microsoft doing this now and who will likely benefit from the move. ...

Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., File Format, PST, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Corporate Law, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Time for Palm to give up the iTunes sync nonsense!

Apple is leveraging the monopolyYou got your guys crossed1If M$ would do anything similar there would be a revolt.We need to be consistent and call out the bad guy: Apple.palm is wrongpalm could simply use the xml file of the itunes library apple has been providing for years for interoperability...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, palm, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Inc., bad guy, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaign

Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaignYeah, ok, Apple too, along with Microsoft.I did forget Apple: I don't get that either. HansWhat is a "Windows Enthusiast"?This is something I don't understand. I've never understood how someone could get behind a for profit company like this. I could...

Tags: boycott, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Windows Enthusiast

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

News to know: Salesforce.com; Microsoft; Apple tablet; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Pop quiz - Which would you choose (Mac vs. PC)? ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-05-22

FTC investigating Google-Apple ties

FTC investigating Google-Apple tiesWhy so against Microsoft?Why guys like you are so against a software company? People always attack the biggest until they become the biggest? And then so what? Microsoft ties up with Apple to fight against Google?Cut the crap. Just delivery your product and let the customers make...

Tags: Google Inc., FTC, Apple Inc., Obama

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD

Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSDMinWinMary, why do you insist on MinWin when he constantly makes it clear that it's not Windows 7? They will use some of the ideas from MinWin and apply them, but it is essentially going to be the improved Vista kernel. Something like...

Tags: BIOS, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

PCMark 2005 memory benchmark favors Intel CPUs

PCMark 2005 memory benchmark favors Intel CPUsError?That just happens to favor the marketshare leader? The same marketshare leader that is up on antitrust violations in several places across the globe?Doesn't seem likely. But perhaps I'm too cynical.RE: PCMark 2005 memory benchmark favors Intel CPUsIt is a mistake to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Chipsets, Processors, Microsoft Windows XP, PCMark 2005 memory benchmark, PCMark 2005, memory benchmark, Intel CPUS, Intel Corp., BAPCo, CPU

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?

Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?sure theres competition alwaysMicrosoft is doing well & not in dire straits that it needs its founder to revive it. They have a good team in place. The transition is the most well planned transition ever known.Also recent products of Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Leadership, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded age

The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded ageLump of Coal or Coke to build the next empireAlthough from the past, I do recall in my mind the perception of comparing Gates to Carnegie. I never realized the connection all this time, esp. given what you report (i.e. backgrounds, culture, beliefs,...

Tags: Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Woodruff, Carnegie, Coke

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Lessons from Firefox 3

I just downloaded the Firefox 3 browser, and if there were problems with their servers before, there certainly are no problems today. The download clocked in under 5 seconds (I do have a fast connection, admittedly), and the install was done in less than a minute. Quite impressive for any...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Internet, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-18

MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connection

It’s interesting that such a large part of Steve Ballmer’s letter giving up on the Yahoo deal focused on the antitrust implications of Yahoo’s deal with Google. In four separate bullet points, Steve explains Microsoft’s “particular concern” over the arrangement: undermining Panama, harming engineer retention, giving Google even greater dominance...

Tags: Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-04

News to know: Microhoo; Adobe patch; Windows bloat; AMD

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer? Garett Rogers: Google gets business from Yahoo...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10

News to know: AMD; IT spending; Google; Microsoft Mesh; ULPCs

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor? Garett Rogers: Google announces App Engine: Should Amazon worry? Michael Krigsman: Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened Larry Dignan: AMD: Sales weak; Layoffs on tap ...

Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Jason O'Grady, IT-spending, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Printers, Fuel Cells, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-08

About+that+Yahoo+deal

About+that+Yahoo+dealI agreeMS is trying to corner a market that can't be cornered too easy to defect. It's fine with me if they weaken themselves enough that the antitrust authorities no longer need to bother with them, but I'd be sorry if they took Yahoo down with them. I'd...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., About+that+Yahoo+deal, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-02

Google must woo mobile app developers

Google must woo mobile app developersAndroid isn't for current mobile developersThe opinions of people currently developing mobile apps are not the ones we should be interested in. The point of Android is to recruit the vast body of desktop Linux developers to develop mobile apps and not for existing...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Cellular phones, Scripting languages, Programming languages, developer, mobile, Google Inc., cell phone, mobile app, mobile app developer, Java

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Google vs. Microsoft: Dueling DoubleClick testimony

Google and Microsoft took Capitol Hill Thursday as their rivalry spilled out during hearings on the Google's DoubleClick acquisition. Both parties have posted their prepared remarks before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Committee on the Judiciary. Here's a look at the backstory, Google's...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Privacy, Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc., Google Obviously, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Are mashups the new 'Java'?

Are mashups the new 'Java'?Oh Goodness...not another hypefest!Mashups, like Web 2.0 itself, seem to be a massive hype job built on very thing air with little or nothing to show for it.In other words, a solution in search of a problem.Of course, Java itself, while elegant, is often seen in...

Tags: Programming languages, Web browsers, Java, applet, personal device, Web browser, mashup

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

Antitrust is a scurvy dog

Antitrust is a scurvy dogyes, there are lots of other balant monopolies around, butthat does not mean that M$ should get a pass!The worst are probably the 'natural monopolies' and for me, the most expensive are the 'hubs' created by airllines on most airports.The difference is the fact the the...

Tags: Corporate law, Anti-trust, Toyota Motor Corp., Microsoft Corp., antitrust

Discussion threads 2007-09-19

A Mac-eye view of Microsoft's EU defeat

European courts are still carrying the torch forward over Microsoft's antitrust practices. That news may bring a smile to longtime Mac users who know all too well the ways that Microsoft can squeeze its competition, whether by withholding compatibility technology, or at times, even its products. Or at least, it...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-09-17