Well, so far today Yahoo has managed to antagonize
Microsoft into considering its options – like lowering its bid and girding for
a hostile takeover – by...
0 replies - 274 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo says it’s going to try offloading some ad placement to
Google, experimenting with using Google’s AdSense for Search service to deliver
relevant...
0 replies - 346 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The European Commission may crack down on Google, Yahoo,
Microsoft et al and tell them they can’t keep personal search data longer than
six months – and...
0 replies - 263 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo sent an increasing impatient Microsoft a letter today
(see below) in answer to Microsoft’s weekend ultimatum giving Yahoo three weeks
to come to terms...
0 replies - 504 views - 04/07/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Microsoft has given Yahoo three weeks to come to terms or
suffer a proxy fight for control of its board and a hostile takeover according
to a Wall Street...
0 replies - 296 views - 04/05/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Microsoft has gotten enough votes to make its precious Open
Office XML file format (OOXML), the default file format in Office 2007, an ISO
standard,...
0 replies - 341 views - 04/03/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The olive branch – well, okay, twig – olive
twig – that Microsoft extended to the open source Eclipse Foundation last Wednesday
was the undertaking to...
0 replies - 627 views - 03/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
A Google News search for Microsoft SSDS, the SQL Server Data Services it announced last week, yields just six articles – SIX! A random nonsense search term...
2 replies - 2733 views - 03/19/08 by Tim Negris in News
Adobe was tickled to say this morning that Microsoft had
licensed its Flash Lite browser plug-in and the Flash Player runtime for mobile
devices so Internet...
0 replies - 754 views - 03/17/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun and Microsoft, which have been toying with
interoperability for years now with not that much to show for it, are going to
open a full-fledged...
0 replies - 822 views - 03/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
One way to avoid integration problems, one
might suppose, is not to integrate, which is apparently how Microsoft intends
to treat Yahoo if and when it...
0 replies - 856 views - 03/11/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Microsoft’s director of open source and Linux
strategy Sam Ramji reportedly said that Microsoft plans to collaborate with
open source Eclipse Foundation...
1 replies - 1002 views - 03/10/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
IBM is lending at least its ODF-based Lotus Symphony software to
another mission to rid the world of Windows PCs.
According to a Reuters story, IBM is...
0 replies - 748 views - 03/08/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Adobe’s release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point.And that’s...
3 replies - 2658 views - 03/07/08 by Tim Negris in News
The Good Microsoft – a side of its personality the
European Commission has helped it discover – is suddenly interested in
“promoting user choice among...
0 replies - 715 views - 03/07/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
