Reuters - Microsoft Corp is preparing a
new bid for Yahoo Inc's search business and has
approached other media companies about joining it in a deal
that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup, the Wall Street
Journal said.
AP - Yahoo Inc. shares rose more than 5 percent Wednesday as The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft Corp. has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business.
PC Magazine - After some speculation last week, Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will acquire San-Francisco based search company Powerset. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:40:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Many computer users -- especially businesses -- have decided to forgo upgrading to Vista, citing its cost, resource requirements, and incompatibilities with older software. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The software vendor is continuing down a path that's cut the total number of licensing programs from more than 100 last year to 26. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Tuesday it had agreed to buy Powerset, a start-up that is
working on a new class of Web search that relies on insights
from linguistics rather than simple keyword strings.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Under Powerset's hood is decades-in-the-making natural-language processing technology the company licensed from the Palo Alto Research Center, formerly of Xerox. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:32:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Orbitz Worldwide Inc said on Tuesday
its Orbitz.com and ebookers.com websites have replaced Expedia
Inc as the travel agencies for Microsoft Corp's Internet arm
MSN.com in the United States and the United Kingdom.
AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is buying Powerset, a firm which specializes in interpreting the intent of people's Internet searches instead of matching specific words they use.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo
Inc's search business and has approached other media companies
about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to
Yahoo's breakup, the Wall Street Journal said. -- read full article
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:06:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP. Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled with the ever-escalating cost of application licenses, make switching to desktop Linux an increasingly attractive option. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Today, we bid adieu to Windows XP. Despite an outpouring of demand -- including more than 210,000 people who signed InfoWorld's "Save XP" petition, Microsoft held firm and yesterday discontinued sales of XP in most cases. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
