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- Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...
- Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Does Microsoft have a gameplan for Groove?
- Does Microsoft have a gameplan for Groove?Groove is cool but it lacks one important thingGroove is about synchronization of files on the client. They need to take it a bit further (maybe via "Mesh?") and synrhonize files to the client nodes (PC's, Servers, Phones) and to the Web. That way...
- Tags: Groupware, Groove Networks Inc., gameplan
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Will+the+EU+fine+change+Microsoft%3F
- Will+the+EU+fine+change+Microsoft%3FOf course not.MSFT is run by the corporate equivalent of a rogue regime, the largest disinformation organization in the world. Only when the financial hurt becomes too high and the regime is toppled by the shareholders will anything change.The current regime is far too filled with liars, cheats and...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., MSFT
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Gates' Microsoft future of intense interest
- Gates' Microsoft future of intense interestThey need SOMEBODY to be the public face of Microsoft. Balmer is viewed asa chair throwing idiot, they are keeping Ozzie sequestered, who else is there????But, this is an important role, as Microsoft is now forced to NOT give customers what they want in terms...
- Tags: Leadership, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., deity, public face
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- Jury convicts Brocade ex-CEO in options trial
- Jury convicts Brocade ex-CEO in options trialStatute of Limitations and Balmer and GatesA sad addition to this story is that one of the first abusers of backdated stock options is Microsoft. It is their accounting firm that provided a list of clients to the feds who they knew also...
- Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, stock option, options trial, Brocade ex-CEO, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., stock
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Novell worries that GPL 3 could foil Microsoft pact
- Novell worries that GPL 3 could foil Microsoft pactMan, Richard Stallman has to be crying. Breaking up a deal with the devil,this is just plain sad. Poor Billy and Stevie, this is just too much, I am going to cry myself.And another thing, this is really unprecedented, Bill Gates...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Novell Inc., GPL, Balmer, GPL 3
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Ballmer calls Google's growth plans 'insane'
- Ballmer calls Google's growth plans 'insane'haha1. Microsoft's cash cows are mostly Windows and Office. Period. Everything else is pretty marginal. Lump the two above and call the "microsoft desktop", and there you have it. A one trick pony.2. Google is doing fantastically well. Their growth has been meteoric. Why would...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating systems, Handhelds, MSN-Live Search, Balmer, Google market cap, Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'
- Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'Funny that Novell was infringing...But Microsoft paid them 150 million for it ???? Don't companies normally sue when you infringe on their IP not give money to the infringer ???Balmer is his own worst enemy.[B]I would not anticipate...
- Tags: Intellectual property, Balmer, open source, Novell Inc., IP, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Paper: Apple's Jobs surrendered unauthorized options
- Paper: Apple's Jobs surrendered unauthorized optionsThe beef...From the page you linked to-[i]Apple's board gave Jobs 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without the approval of the company's board, and said the company later falsified documents that purportedly showed a full meeting of the board had taken place to approve the...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Recruitment & Selection, job, Apple Inc., board, Balmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-28
- Ballmer a patent troll?
- Ballmer a patent troll?Not a threat to USERS, Other distros howeverare a different matter.Do yourself a favor, stop trying to whip up sympathy for the Linux distros by making wild a** claims of MS suing end users. It just make you appear stupid...Big dealIf Linus is staying with GPLv2,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MSFT, SuSE, Microsoft Corp., distro, SCO Group Inc., patent, Balmer, Novell Inc., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- Ballmer: Microsoft's open to more Linux deals
- Ballmer: Microsoft's open to more Linux dealsLike Loverock doesn't create FUD?Which is what he does quite often, a little too often which is why no one listens. Everyone with sense is sick of the Loverock BS.The FUD on both sides is deafening ...and you, Loverock, contribute a good deal more...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., Loverock, Linux, Steve Ballmer, FUD, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-09
- A peace prize for Novell and Microsoft?
- A peace prize for Novell and Microsoft?And I'm also surprised that...Hovsepian didn't catch him on that.Hmmm, sort of...How would you go about tracking down the thousands of contributors? Even Linus T. said that would be impossible in responce to the changing Linux the GPL 3 draft.Ballmer misunderstands the GPL[i]"An...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Balmer, GPL, Microsoft Corp., SuSE, Novell Inc., lawsuit, patent
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
- Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IE
- Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IEThey might also...But they haven't apparently demanded that Microsoft reduce the frequency of and the amount it keeps paying up to all and sundry in settlement or fines and the accompanying legal bills. In case you didn't know, "good will" is considered essential for...
- Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Balmer, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., special treatment, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- Ballmer bets on new sales pitch
- Ballmer bets on new sales pitchFriends for ConsumptionThis is the company that sells Visual Studio to developers and ISVs and then puts those customers out of business by competing against them via Microsoft Business Solutions. How long is this ultimate act of gluttony going to last? How many more firms...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Enterprise software, Balmer, sales, Steve Ballmer, junk, Microsoft Corp., new sale
- Discussion threads 2005-07-11
- Sun plans patent protection for open-source Solaris
- Sun plans patent protection for open-source SolarisMan, Microsoft has to hate this. They attack Linux, and they just dirvecustomers into the open arms of Scott McNeally.Schwartz seems a bit jealous.I wish he would get on with it and we will see which method of licencing is better. GPL has worked...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Free Software, Sun Studio, GPL, Schwartz, Balmer, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, IP, Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, Linux
- Discussion threads 2004-11-18
- Longhorn update: No promises
- Longhorn update: No promisesExscusesthey have the money to hire more developers. No exscuse for delay.Even more painful ?Ballmer admits that windows upgrade cycles are painful.Why then do PHBs use easier upgrades as excuses to upgrade to m$ than to open source ?Whats going on here ? For me, upgrading from...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Balmer, Microsoft Longhorn
- Discussion threads 2004-07-14
- StarOffice update targets Microsoft
- StarOffice update targets MicrosoftSo much wastred effort for the ms platform....`` Likewise, a current lack of adequate administration tools is seen as a competitive weakness of StarOffice. The new remote management tools will be included with Java Desktop System release 2, slated for release by midyear, according to Sun. The...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Balmer, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Now IT, Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2004-03-16
Additional Resources
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirms
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirmsThe only way Icahn could "save" GM would be to buy up shares cheap, andthen sell them to Toyota for double the money.... matchnow which one is the Match and who is the striker They are both very incendiary...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Micro$oft, board, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Confirms, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktop
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktopInteresting[i]We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem,” the letter stated. “Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux desktop, Nvida, desktop, EXT, NVidia Corp., Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Cell phone as desktop computer
- Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
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