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Microsoft

Besieged on all fronts by Google, hacked at by other competitors

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July 2008
- Coming Soon: Your Medical Info on the Net
  
  MIT Technology Review | Jul 1, 08 8:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Both Google and Microsoft are working on programs that allow patients to store their medical information online, reports the MIT Technology Review . Google Health was released in May, 7 months after Microsoft's HealthVault. Both programs will eventually gather test results and info from hospitals and share them with doctors and other health care providers. More »
June 2008
- Microsoft Should Throw a Rock Through Its Windows
  
  New York Times | Jun 29, 08 9:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The window on Microsoft’s operating system agility has closed, and to fix it, Randall Stross argues in the New York Times , the tech giant needs to start from scratch. Windows “has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame,” Stross says, and it “seems to move an inch for every time that Mac OS X or Linux laps it.” More »
- Teary Farewell for Gates
  
  Seattle Times | Jun 27, 08 4:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Microsoft celebrated Bill Gates’ last day as a full-time employee today, the Seattle Times reports. More than 800 employees, family members and friends shared memories at the company’s corporate conference center in Redmond, Wash. CEO Steve Ballmer bid a tearful farewell to his longtime friend: "We've been given a enormous opportunity, and Bill gave us that opportunity," he told the audience. More »
- Reflective Gates Waxes Nostalgic
  
  Fortune Magazine | Jun 26, 08 9:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pictures of Bill Gates the child in a football uniform and alongside Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in their high school computer room are among 15 shots in an exclusive Fortune photo essay. Gates himself narrates the slideshow chronicling Microsoft’s roots, through its founding and 1986 IPO. Other shots show the first Microsoft business card and Gates signing autographs for Harley-Davidson fans in 1991. More »
- Intel Snubs Microsoft, Won't Adopt Vista in Offices
  
  New York Times | Jun 26, 08 11:21 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Intel has decided not to upgrade the 80,000 or so computers its employees use to Windows Vista, seemingly betraying its longtime bosom buddy Microsoft, the New York Times reports. The latest Windows iteration has drawn jeers for being bloated and buggy. “This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft,” said an Intel source. “Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista.” More »
- Yahoo Defends Rejection of Alternate Microsoft Offer
  
  MarketWatch | Jun 26, 08 8:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo yesterday launched an offensive against billionaire Carl Icahn’s attempt to displace the board, detailing in a letter to shareholders why accepting Microsoft’s alternative $8-billion search-only deal would have diminished Yahoo’s value and hurt the company strategically, reports MarketWatch. CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock said the proposal, in which Microsoft would have invested $8 billion in Yahoo, would have tied Yahoo to Microsoft for 10 years. More »
- Microsoft Without Bill Gates? His Final Week Begins
  
  Newsweek | Jun 23, 08 10:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - This will be Bill Gates’ last Monday at Microsoft, the company that the 52-year-old founded with business partner Paul Allen as a teenager. He’s retiring Friday from Microsoft’s day-to-day business and beginning full-time work with his $37.3 billion philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He's been planning this week for 4 years, and Newsweek takes a look at the bizarre notion of a Gates-less Microsoft . More »
- 'Bogus Bill Gates' Winds Down Career
  
  Network World | Jun 22, 08 9:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Washington man who made his living doing dead-on impressions of Bill Gates is following the billionaire into retirement. Steve Sires has been impersonating the Microsoft chairman for a decade, and charging $2,500 for an appearance. But as the 52-year old Gates is winding down his career, so is his look-a-like, reports Network World . More »
- Yang's First Year Leaves Many 'Disillusioned'
  
  CNNMoney | Jun 19, 08 12:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo’s stock has slipped 16.5%, the company might as well be wearing a sign that says “take me over,” and there’s a line of shareholders waiting to sue for what they say was a mishandled non-deal with suitor Microsoft, Fortune reports—not quite the scenario Jerry Yang likely envisioned when he took over as CEO a year ago yesterday. More »
- Tech Firms to Fix Monster They Created
  
  New York Times | Jun 14, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Google, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM are partnering are on a new initiative to help workers distracted by emails and instant messages improve their productivity, the New York Times reports. The Information Overload Research Group, a nonprofit launching next month, will devise cultural and technological solutions to reduce the digital deluge that’s costing firms $650 billion a year in productivity. More »
- Microsoft, Yahoo End Talks, Rule Out Merger
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 12, 08 3:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Looks like a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage is off—for good this time, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a meeting last weekend, Microsoft representatives stated “unequivocally” that the software giant was not interested in purchasing all of Yahoo for any price. Yahoo then ruled out an alternative of selling Microsoft only its search business. More »
- Harrah's Rolls Dice on Surface
  
  Associated Press | Jun 12, 08 12:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Las Vegas casino has become the first to roll the dice with the much-touted Microsoft Surface, a touch-screen table that lets gamblers order drinks, watch YouTube videos, and even flirt. Harrah’s Rio hotel yesterday installed 6 of the tables, which start at $10,000, the AP reports. “Of all the goodies up our sleeves lately, this is one of the most dramatic,” said a Harrah’s spokesman. More »
- Dissed by Vista, Businesses Return the Favor
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 11, 08 12:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Microsoft's strategy of marketing Vista to consumers has turned off its other core constituency, the Wall Street Journal reports: business. Certainly, technical issues and a fat price tag have decimated the number of companies planning to install it: Just 26% of IT departments say they expect to install Vista by 2010, down from 68% last year. More »
- Four Nations Fight Microsoft Doc Standard
  
  Reuters | Jun 10, 08 3:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Four nations have appealed to stop the fast-track adoption of Microsoft’s Office Open XML file format as an international standard, a world standards body announced yesterday. Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa and India have all appealed. The exact reason is unknown, but many have complained that the March vote to approve Open XML was rushed, Reuters reports. Adoption would help Microsoft land more public-sector contracts worldwide. More »
- Icahn Again Skewers Yahoo
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 9, 08 1:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Investor Carl Icahn broadened his attacks on Yahoo today, targeting not only the recent failure of a Microsoft takeover deal but longtime performance issues, the Wall Street Journal reports. "Why did you permit Google to leave you in the dust?" he wrote to the board. More »
- Gates Departure Should Calm the Waters
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 5, 08 4:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Bill Gates’ departure from full-time employment at Microsoft on June 27 will end 8 contentious years in which Gates has attempted to stay onboard while nominally beneath his close friend and new CEO, Steve Ballmer. Though they built the company together, this “ambassadorial succession” produced mixed results, with Gates undermining Ballmer in front of executives, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »
- Yahoo Planned Huge Worker Walkout: Lawsuit
  
  Portfolio | Jun 2, 08 9:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo planned to pay all 14,000 workers to quit if Microsoft bought the company in a recent takeover bid, a lawsuit unsealed today claims. The shareholder complaint blasts execs for burying Microsoft's $1.5 billion offer to workers, and rejecting a $40-per-share offer last year. Yahoo tried to stop the unsealing, which revealed internal talks and private emails, Portfolio reports. More »
- Microsoft Warns Windows Users of Safari Threat
  
  ComputerWorld | Jun 1, 08 7:37 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Windows and Safari mix like virus-vulnerable oil and water, Microsoft warns, and Windows users should stop surfing with Apple’s web browser until the security holes have been patched. The “blended threat” combines a bug in Safari that downloads files to the desktop automatically and a vulnerability in how Windows XP and Windows Vista handle executable files there. More »
May 2008
- Life After Gates Will Take Some Adjustment
  
  MarketWatch | May 29, 08 3:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Microsoft and CEO Steve Ballmer are facing a scary, new post-Bill-Gates world, Therese Poletti writes on MarketWatch. On a panel at the All Things Digital conference earlier this week, Ballmer and Gates fielded questions about Microsoft’s failed Yahoo bid and unpopular Vista operating system. “Ballmer and indeed Microsoft face many challenges on the road ahead,” comments Poletti. More »
- Failed Microhoo Deal Baffling to Murdoch
  
  CNET | May 29, 08 10:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Microsoft’s lack of experience in “buying big things” is a major reason the company didn’t seal its buyout of Yahoo, media mogul Rupert Murdoch tells CNET, who adds he was “mystified” at the lack of a deal. An alliance between Yahoo and Google—"just gushing money"—still seems possible, the News Corp. CEO said, barring a regulatory kibosh. More »

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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates speaks in this Feb. 26, 2007 file photo in Seattle. Gates was taking part in "Launch Tour 2007" to tout the release of Microsoft Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office... (Associated Press)

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Background

Bill Gates: a timeline
BBC

"As Bill Gates announces he will leave his day-to-day role at Microsoft by July 2008, it signals an end to his running of the firm which has lasted over 20 years."

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MS-DOS
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

[in full Microsoft Disk Operating System ] Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. Thereafter, most manufacturers of personal ...

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Windows
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Family of software products developed by Microsoft Corp., mainly for personal computers and workstations, that began as a graphical user interface and developed into an operating system. Version 1.0 (1985) provided a graphical user interface, multitasking, and virtual memory management; it ran on ...

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Bill Gates
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Bill Gates (William Henry Gates 3d), 1955-, American business executive, b. Seattle, Wash. At the age of 19, Gates founded (1974) the Microsoft Corp., a computer software firm, with Paul Allen. They began by purchasing the rights to convert an existing software package. In 1980 they agreed to ...

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Microsoft Corp.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

U.S. computer firm, the leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. Microsoft, headquartered in Redmond, Wash., also publishes books and multimedia titles and manufactures hardware. It was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen (b. 1954), who adapted BASIC ...

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