PC World - Volvo Group's business is all about getting from one place to another. The company sold its car division to Ford Motor in 1999... -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 23:50:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Microsoft said Wednesday it will reward US Live Search shoppers with cash for purchases, essentially trying to buy market share it tried to win with its failed bid to take over Yahoo.
Reuters - The EU executive said on Thursday it
would investigate if steps announced by Microsoft to
make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with
Microsoft Office give consumers greater choice.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:05:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is not looking
to bid to buy all of Yahoo Inc but is in talks about other
types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine, Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday it launched a new "cashback" search service that pays
users a rebate for buying products they found through the
company's Windows Live search engine.
PC Magazine - Michael Miller begins thinking about what Microsoft should do with the next version of Windows, which Microsoft is referring to as Windows 7. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 14:17:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - "Hold the line!" That's the new rallying cry for the core Windows development team. Add new features. Tweak existing ones. But whatever you do, don't make Windows 7 any slower or fatter than Vista."Hold the line!" That's the new rallying cry for the core Windows development team. Add new features. Tweak existing ones. But whatever you do, don't make Windows 7 any slower or fatter than Vista. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software is the latest in a recent push by vendors to simplify the increasingly complex IT infrastructure at many companies' branch offices with a do-it-all piece of hardware. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 16:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Lawyers on both sides of a shareholder lawsuit over Yahoo Inc.'s board's handling of Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover offer are accusing one another of turning it into a public relations battle. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 18:20:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp has proposed to
buy Yahoo Inc's search business and take a minority
stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger,
a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The betting is that Microsoft is seeking a deal that would combine Yahoo's search operations with its own, while allowing Yahoo's portal and display advertising operations to remain independent. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 20:58:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
