Life without Gates
Well its that day, Bill Gates will be turning up at Microsoft HQ for the last time as the Boss, from today he steps down from the day to day management of the company, what’s in store for the company now?
This is what Steve Ballmer and his team could be looking at:
Stop trying to be [...]
Yahoo shares drop as deal is off
After the deal between the worlds largest software company Microsoft and the Search giant Yahoo fell through after problems with how much money was on the table, has affected Yahoo more than anyone else.
The markets have seen the shares plummet to $24.37 which is considerably less that the $33 per share that Microsoft was offering [...]
Microsoft is about to get heavy with Yahoo
When Microsoft begin saying that they mean business, it is normally an advance warning that you are going to be crushed. So when an offer of nearly $45 billion is turned down, it can go one of two ways.
They walk away from the deal and let the company struggle until they are taken over [...]
A real challenge to Office
It would seem that for the first time in around ten years Microsoft’s Office Suite could have a real challenger for supremacy of the desktop. The challenge is coming from Open Office who has been in the ball park for some years, but never really in the game.
When Open Office version 2.4 emerged, it was [...]
Google’s and Doubleclick get Euro approval
The merger between Google and the online advertising business Double Click has been given the all clear by the European regulators, stating that there would be no harmful effects on consumers. Originally the proposed merger had been opposed by Google’s rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, as they were concerned about the advertising.
However it was decided that [...]
Google unhappy with Microsoft/Yahoo deal
It was inevitable that at some stage a partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo would be going ahead, however what was not clear was how this would happen. But the cat is out of the bag now and Yahoo will be going under the very large umbrella that is known as the Microsoft organisation.
Almost immediately after [...]
Microsoft develops the software spy
Developing a super spying piece of software that will be able to spy on workers is the super sized software company Microsoft; this will be able to monitor employees as they go about their daily working routine. They have even gone as far to apply for a patent which will protect it from being copied.
The [...]
Microsoft goes for FAST
Microsoft is making a move on the search engine FAST (Fast search and Transfer) it is said that the figures being put around are something I the region of $1.2 billion in cash, the deal will make things in the enterprise search industry which has been dominated by FAST, but there are other players too, [...]
November 30, 2007Microsoft sued over passwords
The software giant Microsoft, has been sued over requesting a couple of passwords! And they have had to fork out over $140 million for the privilege.
In order to stop piracy Microsoft had developed a system that would mean that by asking for an extra password, they will be able to offer a better level of [...]