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- News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7
- 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: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- News to know: Safari 4, HP, Gmail outage, Ballmer's bets, SaaS adoption
- 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. Safari 4 coverage: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Safari 4 - This is one fast browser! Ryan Naraine: ...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Hewlett-Packard Co., Steve Ballmer, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro’ Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Office 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Yang out: Justice scrutiny paved the way
- Some things are clear. If Jerry Yang had merely been doing a lousy job at running Yahoo, there would have been no "mutual" decision that he should step down as CEO. (NYT: "Jerry and the board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Portals, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Yahoo reportedly closer to Google search deal
- As Yahoo awaits Microsoft's decision on whether to launch a proxy war, the company is moving closer to a search deal with Google. Yahoo and Microsoft, which are negotiating through the Wall Street Journal, are trying to outflank each other. Microsoft is talking about walking away and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle
- Within minutes of Yahoo announcing it was going to do an AdSense for Search deal with Google, Microsoft began firing the antitrust warning shots. It took about 15 minutes after I saw the Yahoo press release before I got an e-mail from the Microsoft camp reminding me...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Barron, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXML
- Microsoft is taking new measures to prove that the "open" in its Office Open XML OOXML document format belongs there. In response to feedback from the national bodies who are involved in Microsoft's ISO standards bid for OOXML, Microsoft is changing how it is making Office binary-format...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML
- ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Matusow, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- News to know: Microsoft's strategy; Yahoo's search; Torture tests; Twitter funding
- Notable headlines:Life without Google: Can Yahoo regain search share? Gallery right.Mary Jo Foley: Multiple Microsoft search refreshes due over the 12 months. Ozzie spells out the Live platform layers. Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open source.Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall. Windows...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Newest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clear
- Newest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clearNewest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clear[i]a draft that prohibits future deals similar to the Microsoft-Novell patent pact but lets that one go ahead.[/i]Wow, the FSF is really full of themselves if they have to say something like 'lets that one go...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL V3, Free Software Foundation, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- 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
- Google beware: Does Microsoft lust for Yahoo?
- Microsoft and Yahoo sitting in a tree, KISSING!So it would seem, given the “inspired” meet-up of Microsoft top brass with the Yahoo CEO, at Microsoft’s downtown Seattle Strategic Account Summit next week.Joanne Bradford, Corporate Vice President, Chief Media Officer, MSN, has honors at the event, taking to the stage with...
- Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- One man can end the Microsoft-Linux feud
- One man can end the Microsoft-Linux feudHistorically......MS has hid the bad cop behind the scenes, rather than trotting him out in public. It's only been since Ballmer has been CEO that MS-execs have made public statements either threatening customers or denouncing the competition (belittle, yes, FUD, yes, denounce, never).On...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
- FSF says Novell could be banned from selling Linux
- FSF says Novell could be banned from selling LinuxPunish, ban, how free and progressivecan't live and let live. Loathe MS = ban and punish those who deal with it. What next, punish and ban those who use it operating system too??? How would one do such, ....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Novell Inc., Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
- Justice Dept.: Vista satisfies antitrust deal
- Justice Dept.: Vista satisfies antitrust dealJustice Dept.: Vista satisfies antitrust dealWas there ever any doubt? As far as I am concerned the antitrust thing was a big sham. This good news should relieve many of the corporations that will be migrating to Microsoft's products, in particular Vista. ...
- Tags: Corporate law, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-11-21
- The pragmatist / idealist dichotomy
- The pragmatist / idealist dichotomyReactionless reciprocating ratios...Should we take these latest anti-GPL anti-patent statement to mean that you now endorse a pro-software-patent use and abuse stance? Would that not constitute a change of mind on your part to what you've tenaciously held to for so long as I've known of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., idealist, Novell Inc., agreement, pragmatist
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Microsoft paying Novell $308 million for Linux pact
- Microsoft paying Novell $308 million for Linux pactMicrosoft paying Novell $308 million for Linux pactMicrosoft has to pay Novell just to keep them alive as competition. This has "rescue me" written all over it for Novell. Too funny.Looks like MS was desperate to sign a deal, this is all in...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Linux, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
- Red Hat couches Microsoft-Novell pact as a Linux win
- Red Hat couches Microsoft-Novell pact as a Linux winNTFS? WTF?[i]If they get to legally integrate NTFS into SUSE, then I would be hard pressed not to switch to it, since I've been considering such a move for a while, but having to move close to 200 gig worth of data...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Linux Customers, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-03
- Supreme Court to hear Microsoft appeal
- Supreme Court to hear Microsoft appealSupreme Court to hear Microsoft appealMicrosoft FTW!And rightly so , Microsoft should pay up .Isn't obvious already that perhaps the majority of their code is stolen from somewhere else . I mean when does the litigation stop . It's time for everyone to think things...
- Tags: intellectual property, patent, Microsoft Corp., software patent, software
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
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