NewsFactor - Forget Yahoo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the company's annual meeting for financial analysts. Any plans for a merger are dead and "there's nothing under discussion between the two of us," Ballmer said. "It didn't work out; we're done." -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:55:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Microsoft is shaking up management of its online division and strengthening its tie to Facebook in the aftermath of a failed bid to buy Yahoo to bolster its lagging Internet business.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The data warehouse appliance maker's software is typically used with Ingres' open source database, but could be easily be optimized for Microsoft's SQL Server. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:15:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Apple has been boosting sales of Macs with its Mac OS X operating system -- seemingly at Microsoft's expense, as more PC users turn up their noses at Microsoft's Windows Vista. Apple also has had great success with its iPhone, but now that Apple is taking flak because of problems with its MobileMe service, an admiring Microsoft appears ready to go after some of Apple's revenue. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:32:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp
Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell on Thursday described
Yahoo Inc. as "a declining asset" and all but ruled
out a complete takeover of the Internet company.
InfoWorld - Microsoft on Thursday plans to delve deeper into Ruby programming, with plans to ship Ruby libraries and participate in a testing project for the language. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Bill Gates is no longer working full time at Microsoft but some of his ideas, like tabletop computers and more natural user... -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:50:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Microsoft's CEO defended the software maker's decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed minimal light Thursday on specific steps it will take to challenge Google in the wake of the failed bid to buy Yahoo.
PC World - Microsoft is working on a way to combine its online services into a single Web page to solve its branding problem, CEO Steve... -- read full article
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:20:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Chief Executive Steve
Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make
heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the
company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Windows-compatible platform can be seen as Microsoft's counterpart Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing service, known as EC2, and to the Google App Engine. -- read full article
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Evermore's productivity suite combines all of the standard office programs into a single application and costs significantly less than Microsoft's suite. -- read full article
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:21:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The service is cross-compatible with Microsoft's Xbox Live network, which lets Xbox 360 owners play games against each other online. -- read full article
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:36:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday that Kevin Johnson, who as president of Microsoft's
largest business division spearheaded the company's pursuit of
Yahoo Inc , is leaving the software maker. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:23:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
