PC World - Some Microsoft partners are less than thrilled by the company's push into a software-plus-services model, which will compete... -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:50:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Executives from major Internet players — Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc. -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:13:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Investor's Business Daily - Seeking to blunt the threat from a wave of Internet rivals, Microsoft on Tuesday announced pricing and other new details about its plans to offer business software as a subscription service over the Web. -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:24:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp introduced on
Wednesday pricing for its suite of online services targeted at
corporate customers and a revenue-sharing plan to encourage
other companies to sell the software company's products.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is strengthening its early-stage push to fend off competition by offering more Internet-based software, a change from its traditional method of selling programs that run on individual desktops or corporate servers. -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:40:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
USATODAY.com - Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo's board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal. -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:42:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory to warn users about attacks targeting a vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database management system. -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:02:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Yahoo's stock price jumped nearly 12 percent after Microsoft said Monday it is willing to reopen talks on a "major transaction" with Yahoo if the Internet giant replaces its board of directors.
Reuters - Stocks fell on Monday on concerns that
the top two mortgage providers would have to raise even more
capital, severely devaluing existing shareholders' stakes,
while big energy companies fell along with oil prices.
PC World - Microsoft plans to release a new Windows server OS aimed at mid-sized businesses and the next version of its small-business... -- read full article
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:20:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Appeals court arguments in a battle
over MP3 digital music patents between Alcatel-Lucent
and Microsoft Corp focused Monday on a joint
development pact struck nearly two decade earlier.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would
be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc, but
only if a new Yahoo board is elected -- a big boost for
financier Carl Icahn's board slate.
