The Times: Microsoft will buy Yahoo search engine
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion, says The Times. Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to the Miller and Levinsohn management team. The duo would raise an additional $5 billion from external investors.
TechCrunch says “hard to believe”…
Rumors: Apple to buy Yahoo
Sunday, November 16th, 2008More than a couple of sites posted this rumors: Apple might be intrested to buy Yahoo, more than Microsoft is. Well, it’s a nice idea, and the plan might work. But I believe it’s only an idea, not an actual plan. Steve Jobs is more intrested in launching new products than to buy something, like [...]
Inovation from Microsoft: Windows 7 is Vista
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer characterized Windows 7 as an improved version of Windows Vista this week, prompting the question of why consumers and businesses should adopt Microsoft’s current operating system, says PC Magazine. Speaking at a Gartner-sponsored conference in Florida, Ballmer was asked what would make consumers and businesses buy Vista. The interview, held [...]
Microsoft opens own store in US
Friday, November 14th, 2008While other players are closing and selling their stores, Microsoft opened its first online store in the U.S., selling all of its products at a one-stop-shop. Customers will be able to buy and download products via Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) and can also get direct shipments. With the launch, U.S. customers can buy first-party software [...]
Microsoft: Smells like a new monopoly abuse
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Well, it looks like a new strategy coming from Microsoft, the company being used to block it’s competitors in any way possible.
A Linux-Watch reader today reported difficulties using Microsoft’s Hotmail service with Firefox browsers running on Linux operating systems. We confirmed that creating a new Hotmail account was not possible, due to an error message [...]
Windows 7: first pre-beta to be shown in october
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest developer of software, plans to unveil more details regarding its Windows 7 operating system and even provide select software developers pre-beta versions of the forthcoming OS in late October at its Professional Developers Conference, says X-bit.
Microsoft recently announced that at this year’s PDC, keynote attendees will be among the first [...]
SQL Server 2008
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This version of SQL Server provides powerful new capabilities such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis services. SQL Server 2008 provides [...]
Xbox 360: 60GB, $349
Monday, July 14th, 2008Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360 console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.) estimated retail price (ERP). Available in retail stores in the U.S. and Canada starting in early August, the upgraded Xbox [...]
Yang: Microsoft Squashing Us On Purpose
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang says that “to trust Carl Icahn and his board is really a bad choice,” adding that Microsoft is trying to squash the company’s share price without any real desire to complete a deal.
Microsoft “not buying” story ends
Friday, June 27th, 2008It’s less than a week since Microsoft said “it will not buy another Internet company” and yet, once Bill Gates left, the giant buys Powerset, a niche search engine. This is not an official thing, the source is VentureBeat.
Microsoft also will buy portuguese company MobiComp, this time it’s an official info.
