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- Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals
- Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferralsHow can they blame ...... netbooks when they have 97% of the market?Is there an untold story?^o^Wait, I thought cheap was good. 'Lauren' congratulated herselffor not being able to afford a Mac, and went cheap, cheap, cheap. And now we find out...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft layoff, Apple Inc., client revenue skid, Windows 7 deferral, MSFT, deferral, netbook, Microsoft Corp., skid, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see slides
- Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see slidesA way forward for MSFTMSFT should explicitly recognize the failure of Vista by offering a no charge upgrade to Win7. This move would be a PR plus. Any lost revenue on upgrade charges would be minimal. Past history has shown that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, game plan, Microsoft Windows Vista, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., game
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Renewable energy is only a patch--MSFT research head
- Stop the release of CO2 says Craig Mundie. Any way and every way. Doesn't Craig understand that it's always about making a profit and you do that by selling more energy, even renewable...not by cutting down on CO2. That's generally a costly public service like clean water...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide, MSFT, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- EU wants MSFT to put other browsers in Windows
- EU wants MSFT to put other browsers in WindowsThis is war against MSIt is more and more clear, that EU commision is waging undeclared war against US companies, MS and Intel specifically. I think US government should retaliate demanding that for example BMW car must offer customer a choice of...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Windows User, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Windows, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2009-06-01
- EU wants MSFT to put other browsers in Windows
- Microsoft's plans for Windows 7 to allow users to disable Internet Explorer don't go far enough, the EU is thinking. CRN reports that the Wall Street Journal reports that the EU wants to force Microsoft to bundle other browsers - I'm thinking Opera and Firefox - with Windows. A startup...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, European Union, MSFT, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Unless Bartz is a poker queen, there's no imminent MSFT-Yahoo deal
- Unless Bartz is a poker queen, there's no imminent MSFT-Yahoo dealUmmm....I think Yahoo in general is a company who overvalues itself 24/7. At this point in time, why would anyone pay "boatloads" for anything Yahoo? Can they even name ONE, significant growth area?Evidence that the name is going to be...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Bing, Bartz, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Unless Bartz is a poker queen, there's no imminent MSFT-Yahoo deal
- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz kept the D7 tweeting crowd entertained, but made it seem there is no imminent search deal/sale/partnership with Microsoft in the wings. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust official
- MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust officialNellie Kroes is a biased personNo point talking to her. Its like pouring water on a duck's back.Nellie has no sense of logic, doesn't know the competition in market place (she's a incompetent bureaucrat), has no idea of software development...
- Tags: Corporate law, Nellie Kroes, antitrust official, MSFT, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust official
- Hmm ... makes you wonder what they're afraid of. The New York Times -- reporting on the news this blog that Microsoft would not make oral arguments in the small matter of whether the embedding of Internet Explorer in Windows constitutes anticompetitive behavior -- revealed that Neelie Kroes, the competition...
- Tags: Commission, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., European Union, MSFT, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employee
- GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employeeProfit is easy.When all you have to do is print more money.Google and MicrosoftMaybe it just takes more people to do what Microsoft does then Google? Microsoft actually make things, Google just sell ads and fool around with some...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., tech firm, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employee
- Peter Alguacil over at Pingdom has crunched numbers on tech company profits per employee and Google comes top with $210K per person in 2008. Microsoft $194K Baidu $164K Apple $151K Cisco $122K Adobe $119K Ebay $110K Intel $64K ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Employee, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Investment, Performance Management, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-05-16
- Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?
- Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?What did MS do wrong?They are not bound by the GPL. They are free to license their technology to anyone they want, under terms agreeable to both. (I assume there might be some Federal restrictions there, but I don't think we crossed that...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MS Just, FAT32, Microsoft Corp., Software Freedom Sue, GPL, MSFT, software
- Discussion threads 2009-03-07
- MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser
- MSFT: EU would force users to pick browserHow do you download a browser...without a browser already on the OS? Do Windows users have to get browser CD's? Copy them on a thumbnail drive? Or even more inane, MS has to write and supply an non-browser app to download browsers for...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, MSFT, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., EEC, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser
- Microsoft says EU action would mean users would have to choose browsers. by Richard Koman
- Tags: OEM, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Sources: Microsoft to close completely its Aces game studio
- Sources: Microsoft to close completely its Aces game studioWellWith less money earned from Windows sales, and this is not going to get better with this crisis and the rise of the netbooks and nettops, Microsoft should begin to focus on other products potentially profitable products such as for example Xbox...
- Tags: Game players, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operational accounting, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Xbox, game
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killers
- Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killersKindlein other words Verison is gonna make a cheap device charge an arm and leg to use it to get information and that is gonna kill the kindle?Yet another reason not to use the NOTworkAs if the mediocre NOTwork quality was enough....
- Tags: MSFT, MS-search, NOTwork, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-07
- Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killers
- Between the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and an investor conference in Arizona, Verizon Wireless is making headlines today on issues ranging from a mobile search deal to plans for Kindle killers to Monday morning quarterbacking about the launch of the Blackberry Storm. Reuters is reporting...
- Tags: Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Mobile Search, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Advertising & Promotion, Search, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- AAPL, MSFT, GOOG sued over doc previews
- AAPL, MSFT, GOOG sued over doc previewsTime for these companies to work togetherand start squashing these patent trolls.I see nothing wrong with enforcing a legit patent, but what's next? Someone suing Andersen or Pella for the "patent" on the window and door?RE: AAPL, MSFT, GOOG sued over doc previewsF all...
- Tags: patent, MSFT, Apple Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-26
- AAPL, MSFT, GOOG sued over doc previews
- Small firm says Windows, Mac, Chrome all violate its patent on using icons to display previews of document content. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Cygnus Inc., Icon, MSFT, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-26
- MSFT says it will reduce data retention if Google will
- Microsoft offered to dramatically scale back its data retention policies -- if Google and Yahoo do the same, PCWorld reports. Microsoft proposed to adopt European guidelines that search query data not be kept longer than six months. John Vassallo, vice president of E.U. affairs for Microsoft, said...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Retention, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
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