Reuters - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive
Steve Ballmer said on Friday that buying Yahoo was not
a strategy in itself, and dropping the bid meant it now had $50
billion to spend on other acquisitions.
AFP - Collaboration trumped competition on Thursday as Microsoft researchers showed peers from rivals such as Google innovations being developed in their labs.
PC World - South Africa has appealed against ISO's adoption of the Microsoft-sponsored Office Open XML document format as a standard. -- read full article
Fri, 23 May 2008 17:00:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft hopes to have a final version of Windows Home Server, Power Pack 1, available in early June, but cautions that testing may delay the launch. -- read full article
Fri, 23 May 2008 17:21:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software giant remains optimistic in the face of the latest obstacle to adoption of its portable media player. -- read full article
Fri, 23 May 2008 19:27:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - It felt like all Microsoft, all the time this week. CEO Steve Ballmer was attacked by an egg-throwing Hungarian, the company... -- read full article
Fri, 23 May 2008 19:30:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Microsoft said Friday it is ending its quest to create an online library of the world's books as the technology titan revamps its strategy to battle Internet search king Google.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is abandoning its effort to scan whole libraries and make their contents searchable, a sign it may be getting choosier about the fights it will pick with Google Inc. -- read full article
Sat, 24 May 2008 00:05:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft's bid for Yahoo indicates an acquisition hunger that could prompt it to gobble up a chain of smaller companies, venture capitalists said Wednesday. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 14:15:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The numbers raise questions about whether Microsoft's failed attempt to acquire Yahoo would have been worth it. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Legg Mason funds manager Bill Miller says Microsoft should revive talks to acquire the Internet portal. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 19:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page criticized a potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, saying it would concentrate too much power in the online communications market, stifling innovation and curbing competition.
Reuters - The first thing Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer thought of when a Hungarian student attacked him with
eggs this week was that he had to keep his suit clean, he said
on Thursday.
