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Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost

Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lostI'd rather see Apple buy them out...At least with Apple, they would be guaranteed to be infused with some true innovation on top of what they already have. Microsoft would suck the life force right...

Tags: Corporate governance, Investment, Financial accounting, MICROSOFT TODAY, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-07

Is Yahoo's! board brain dead?

Is Yahoo's! board brain dead?Consolidation comes in times of consumer inflation.Multiple Key Points here: Yahoo's examination of its privacy by the NSA and other Agencies Archive, their own Mellinium design changes online, and their sale of 1/3 of their Browsers Archive. Microsoft today is into Advertising as a n American...

Tags: Corporate governance, board, MICROSOFT TODAY, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., board brain

Discussion threads 2008-02-09

Quick thoughts from the MIX keynote

Quick thoughts from the MIX keynoteIt's good to be Microsoft today.It's good to be Microsoft today :)Not bad for a V1 effort, can't wait for V2 :)-Scott BarnesDeveloper EvangelistMicrosoft.

Tags: MICROSOFT TODAY

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

Additional Resources

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...

Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Zurich, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, SQL Server Data Services, Data Centers, Retail, Financial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up

Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...

Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...

Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?

The same day that Forrester Research is touting yet another of a growing number of studies claiming Vista is failing to gain traction in the enterprise, Microsoft is claiming just the opposite. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple must be feeling pretty flattered now that both Canonical the company behind Ubuntu and Microsoft have expressed a desire to be more like Apple. Start your photocopiers! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Ubuntu, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photocopier, Apple Mac OS, Copiers, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year

Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, Bill Veghte, just told attendees that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer IE 8 to the Web "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week

During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Sony Reader PRS-505 gets a major firmware upgrade

My Sony Reader is an excellent piece of hardware that I thoroughly enjoy using during my daily commute. I skipped the Amazon Kindle and bought the Sony Reader and have not been one bit sorry about this purchase I made last fall. I just saw on my favorite eBook site,...

Tags: Sony Corp., Firmware, Sony Reader, Firmware Upgrade, Sony Reader PRS-505, E-books, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer played online-services pitch man duirng his opening keynote at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, explaining why Micorsoft believes it must continue to invest heavily in search and advertising to remain competitive in the coming years. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Advertisement, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kevin Johnson, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Google + Digg = ?

There's a persistent rumor that crops up every few months about social news site Digg being acquired by ____ insert company here. The latest, citing "multiple sources inside and outside Google", says that Google will buy Digg for $200M. This is similar to a rumor in March that Digg was...

Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space

Microsoft has long prided itself on its open partner ecosystem and cited it as a key differentiator from Apple, which provides all of the hardware and software for its products. But that equation may be set to change, based on a somewhat cryptic comment from CEO Steve Ballmer. by...

Tags: Phone, PC, Steve Ballmer, OEM, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Telecom & Utilities, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Apple's coming notebook transition

Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...

Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable

In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along...

Tags: Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little

Vista adoption in the enterprise is mired in the single digits, but is an option for companies that have Windows releases before XP. Nineteen percent of enterprise users use Firefox. And the Mac OS is making some headway in the enterprise, but Apple lacks a coherent strategy to pitch business...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Medpedia or Knol, doc?

Anonymous prestige or money and fame? That's the choice doctors who write face today as Medpedia approaches its launch date and Google announces the launch of Knol. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Knol, Medpedia, Wiki, Professional Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Online Communications, Career, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-24