PC Magazine - Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer plans to retire as early as 2017, a Microsoft representative confirmed Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:52:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Corporate raider Carl Icahn also plans to replace Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang if he takes control of the company's board. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:05:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Customers that don't deploy Windows Vista are missing out on proven benefits such as better security, productivity, search, mobility, and manageability, says a Microsoft executive. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:35:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Looking to take on the iPhone, a Microsoft exec said mobile music will be a huge business opportunity. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:18:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Hoping to negotiate a compromise, activist investor Carl Icahn urged Yahoo Inc. to declare it is willing to accept a takeover offer of $49.5 billion — about $2 billion above Microsoft Corp.'s last bid for the Internet pioneer.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The "important" flaws affect Windows Internet Name Service, Active Directory, and Pragmatic General Multicast. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:12:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Investor's Business Daily - The efforts of Google and others to push open-source software in cellular networks are nothing new and won't have a big impact, say executives with Microsoft and Nokia, the largest providers of smart phone software. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:00:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of rich Internet applications that leverage the company's Silverlight browser plug-in technology. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:28:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Carl Icahn on Friday told Yahoo Inc
that it should offer to sell the company to Microsoft
Corp for $34.375 per share, or about $48.7 billion, as
the financier fired another volley in an acrimonious war of
words.
AFP - In the latest tit-for-tat over Yahoo, billionaire Carl Icahn renewed accusations Friday that the Internet giant misled shareholders and suggested a joint search deal with Google if Yahoo cannot be sold to Microsoft.
PC World - Carl Icahn increased his pressure on Yahoo, demanding that the company put itself up for sale for a little more than US$34 a... -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:40:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Hoping to negotiate a compromise, activist investor Carl Icahn urged Yahoo Inc. to declare it's willing to sell for $49.5 billion — about $2 billion above Microsoft Corp.'s last offer for the Internet pioneer.
PC World - As Microsoft continues to recommend that business customers not pass over Vista in favor of the forthcoming Windows 7, the... -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:20:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
