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Microsoft

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

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June 2008
- 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 »
- Microsoft to Offer Windows Touch Screen
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 28, 08 11:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Microsoft, still smarting over consumer discontent with its Windows Vista operating system, yesterday offered a peek at the touch-screen operating system it believes will revolutionize personal computing, the Wall Street Journal reports. The OS isn’t expected to hit shelves for 20 months, but already is creating buzz with its iPhone-like ease of use. More »
- GameStop Axes Zune; Microsoft Shrugs
  
  TheStreet | May 23, 08 7:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - GameStop, a national chain of video game stores, has announced it will no longer carry Microsoft’s floundering Zune digital media player, TheStreet.com reports. "We have decided to exit the Zune category because it just did not have the appeal we had anticipated," a spokesman said of the iPod competitor, on shelves since late 2006. Microsoft seemed unfazed. More »
- Microsoft Promises to Add Access to Open Format
  
  New York Times | May 22, 08 2:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Microsoft says it will allow documents created in a competitor’s interchangeable format to open in its Office 2007 software package by mid-2009, but European officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude, the New York Times reports. “We have heard a lot of promises from Microsoft, but as of yet, we are hoping for results,” said a Norwegian regulator. More »
- Search Gamble May Just Work for Microsoft
  
  Washington Post | May 22, 08 1:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Many are pooh-poohing Microsoft’s cash-back search scheme, but Michael Arrington of TechCrunch thinks it’s going to work—and be a major pain in Google’s side. With search-market share at a mere 9.1% (and falling), Microsoft has little to lose, Arrington argues, because search is a winner-takes-most proposition. If customers respond to bribery—and history suggests they will—Microsoft could widen its pie piece. More »
- Microsoft Will Offer Search Customers Cash
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 21, 08 10:46 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Having largely abandoned its bid to buy, in the form of Yahoo, a significant presence in the Internet search business, Microsoft now will give customers money back when they buy items through its Live.com search portal, the Wall Street Journal reports. To be made official today, the move makes clear Microsoft isn't giving up on its search ambitions. More »
- Protester Eggs Microsoft CEO
  
  Associated Press | May 21, 08 9:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in Budapest this week to give a lecture to Hungarian university students, but the talk took an unexpected turn when he was pelted with eggs. Unlike Bill Gates, who was hit in the face with a cream pie a decade ago, Ballmer was able to dodge the attack. The protester shouted that Microsoft had stolen money from the Hungarian people, hurled three eggs, and was calmly escorted out. More »
- Google Launches Online Health Records Service
  
  New York Times | May 20, 08 12:51 PM CDT